Oh - and I totally forgot to tell you about my bats!! I worked for the Museum of Natural History in which there is a cave exhibit. We would take the bats home to teach them how to eat out of a dish. While watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer one evening, I had three such bats to teach. The became Yukon, Cornelious, and Clariesse. Yukon became "my" bat and travelled with me to Dayton when I managed the bat exhibit there. Clarisesse delivered 2 babies in my home one Friday evening - one of the most exciting things I've ever seen! Once the babies could fly, all three were set free. I think Cornelious stayed at the Museum for a while. Oh how I miss Yukon. She loved to be pet (petted?) between her ears and I swear they purred!! All were Big Browns - I also had Egyption Flying Foxes that were borrowed from the Zoo while I was in Dayton. They were a trip! Would pee on me if I waited too late to feed them. Thanks for bringing up this topic - what great memories!!

drexel girls

My dad had a pair of veiled chameleons several years back, Camille and Leon.
My own most "unusual" pets would probably be my current ones, my rats Milo and Hutch.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b279/tdscrafts/100_0232.jpg (when they were still just babies-- I need to take some new pictures now that they're big fat boys)

When a friend was graduating from college and moving, she gave me her hermit crab. I named him Scuttlebutt.

He didn't do much but climb his stick in his big brandy snifter thing and try to get free but he was fun.

Later in life, I bought 2 for myself, Scuttlebutt and Clawdius. However, they weren't as fun as the original Scuttlebutt and I got rid of them.

KuKu

Oh yeah, I also had some little frogs once. My second grade teacher had a pond in her backyard and she used to bring in a bunch of frogs from it and let each student who had permission take 5 home. Mine were all escape artists, though, so they didn't last very long sadly.

i had 2 huge rats while in hs. i've had lots of cats, a few dogs, some hamsters & gerbils, a corn snake & bettas. i think thats all
right now we have 1 dog,8 cats(3 indoors & rest are outside)
most cats i've ever had at 1 time was 22
:)

Besides the usual turtles, lizards, salamanders, fish, frogs, hermit crab, crayfish, seamonkeys, and dog which currently reside with us, we have had......

a stag beetle
A garden spider
A small toad who we found while searching for a letterbox. He lived two years and just recently passed away. We thought that toad was the best in the world. Look for our new box coming soon "Ode to a Toad"

Nature Posse

Many, Many, Many years ago, we had a skunk in the family. She had a thing for the guys, but not so friendly with the girls. But she was beautiful!............... Starfly

We still have an African Pygmy Hedgehog--he doesn't do a whole a lot, but he is sure cute and loves to run! And we have a whole bunch of fishies and a frog.

Probably our most unusual pet is our cat, Mr. Peanut (Yep, she has gender issues.) She is a diva-queen calico who loves to wear necklaces--she literally prances when we put them on, and she strikes poses for photos. (I don't know if it is because I am a singer and dress up for concerts and she watches or what...)

Maybe though... I guess she could literally be called a "copy cat." Her previous owner was a yoga instructor, and for the first few weeks after I got her, I would catch her using the litterbox while standing on one leg. After we got the covered box, that sadly stopped--too funny.

And we have definitely come home to see her sitting on the couch just like a person--hysterical!! She's quite a large cat with a good-sized belly, reminds me of "Norm" from Cheers. I've got photos on my phone, so ask to see them if you run into us! At any rate, she's a character! I look forward to having her for many years to come.

I love reptiles. I had anoles for several years. Also had a green snake - boy was he pretty, and friendly! :) I also had a rat snake that I named Kelvin b/c he swallowed the thermometer in his cage (it had previously been in the tank with the anoles and crickets and likely smelled like them). THAT was an expensive vet bill, but I had him for a couple years after that.

My husband is Indiana-Jones-afraid of reptiles, so since the last little anole died, I'm limited to cats, dogs and fish. Oh, and monarch caterpillars each summer.

-AG

All we have are two cats. But today we had homeschool zoo for our group. There were dogs, a snake, a toad, a rabbit, a gosling, a goat, and a miniature horse there. One of the dogs was bigger than the horse. It's always a highlight of the homeschool year.

C

My son has four African Clawed frogs. They are aquatic, so live in a huge aquarium. He ordered them for his third grade class to observe - they came in several stages. No one wanted to take them home at the end of the year, so he has had them for a year.

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We had a red-bellied pirahna for many years... ...I have to admit though, when Red died, it sure was nice to fill his tank with a lot of brightly colored tropicals!

We had the same thing, man was he nasty! Just died a couple of months ago and we ended up putting the beautiful angelfish from my 29 gallon into the 55 gallon it had lived in and got some more colorful fishies.... it's the first thing you see when you walk up to my front door and I love it.

On a funny note, my fiance had an iguana as a kid. That thing lived forever and since we didn't have room for it, lived at his mom's. She took great care of it, altho at one point she was gone for 2 weeks and we had to clean the cage. I'd never done it before and couldn't understand why my fiance was donning goalie shin pads and a stick.... then he told me to stand back and he opened the cage. OMGosh, that thing ran out of there hissing and with his tail a whippin', got him good in the shins and ran out to the sunny front porch. To get him back in the cage, you had to steer him with the stick. What a trip! I was so glad when it died right before we moved into a place where we could have it, no way was I having something like that in my house!!!

moonduck

My pet isn't unusual.

But it doesn't seem like many letterboxers have pet birds.

I have a cockatiel, named Doodle. And she is the sweetest and the cutest.

S~N~K

When I was a kid we had a crow, named Alice, that we had for a couple years. She wasn't caged, but lived in our backyard. I think 2 baby birds had been found by our neighbor, they gave us one, and they kept the other. They taught theirs to talk, only a few words though.