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What classifies as weird??
I've had:
-Sheep (All types of breeds)
-Goats (Nubians & Pgymies)
-Rabbits (All breeds)
-Rodents (Ratties, Mice, Hamsters Guinea Pigs)
-Lizards/Snakes (Common reptiles found in my area)
-Dog - American Eskimo/Cocker Spaniel Cross (he is weird ... acts like a female cat ... and he is a male dog)
-Chickens
-Geese
The list goes on - none of it seems weird - Maybe it's just me - I don't know

i used to keep stick insects..i have a praying mantis at the moment...does a 2 tailed black neon tetra count as strange? also i have like, 9 alpacas......

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Well, having had pretty much everything at one time or another, not much seems 'weird' anymore....but the strangest probably include banana slugs, tarantuals, scorpions, black widow spiders, leeches, Solfugids ('camel spiders'), assorted water bugs, giant cockroaches.

My current pets are much more normal....26 tortoises, 70 snakes, 15 lizards, a ferret, a cat, and two parrots.

Caterpillars

ive had everything pretty much never any spiders tho unfortunately if ida brot them home ida got kicked out
the many many scorpions i had n the snakes kept my mom outta my room n almost killed her a few times
i had a hawk that was cool chipmunks foxes redsquirrels reptiles anphibians rodents ferrets dogs tried to buy a cougar once but i think my fav was my 8.4" black emp scorpion he was so friendly n had the run of the house the igunas never messed with him he was king but very gentle wed go for walks with him on my shoulder scared alot of ppl downtown bmxing with him id say he was the weirdest becuz the reaction he got

okay, so my list of pets isn't that weird in comparison, but the pets themselves were a little odd... we used to have an alaskan malamute who thought she was a lap puppy... very sweet dog but honestly one of the dumbest animals on the planet... we put in wood floors and she would slide across the floor every single morning (for 2 years!). She also would let me vacumn her when she was shedding. I also have had a few odd pets at the preschool I work at... rescued an Eastern Box Turtle from my back yard (not supposed to keep them as pets here) that my dogs were going after... the kids loved Tiny the Turtle... she went to live by a nice stream after 2 years. Then there was Happy the female Hamster... the kids loved her, too... then she magically changed into a boy. Anyhow, I kind of end up with an odd assortment of pets that stay for a bit... they visit with the kids at preschool and then move on. We've had quite a few pets but nothing like what some people keep as pets... although hubby had a snake (before me)... some kind of big python that would escape and roam around his apartment and sleep with the furnace. Mostly we have dogs though... our current two are named "Rum" and "Coke"... we were a little bit younger when we named them.

-Sorry for the LONG ramble....

Earthworms?
Grasshoppers?
Chinese hampsters?
A golden retriever with curly fur?

...those are the 'wierdest' ones I can think of. The many other pets might be considered normal...

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I live on a lake so i guess you can consider all the things on my front porch my pets. One time an Otter came into my lake . And someone released koi into the lake and they are HUGE.

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My snake escaped when i got him back i had to put him on pinkies again he was on mice

I had an invisible snail once I lost him in Wal-Mart

WHen I was a little girl we had a pet sheep because my dad thought it would be a good alternative to mowing the lawn.

My friend has a goat in her backyard called Laina. She's just like a dog in a lot of ways, she bounds up to the back door when people come in the house and stretches her head out for a pat. Very cute. How they get away with a goat in a rented house in an inner-city suburb, I have no idea!

I don't have weird pets really, aside from the childhood assortment of blue-tongues or praying mantis' or skinks captured, kept for a couple of days and then released. I do have a pair of turkeys in my backyard that I am rather fond of, they come and go every few days. Not exactly pets though!

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

Well it would have been a Toadfish but I didnt get one but I did reserve one for two weeks at my LFS so I kind of owned one. Apart from that my Butterflyfish and BGK are really quite unusual.

Other than fish I keep a Terrier X and we do not have a clue what breeds it is crossed from. Then there is my Bearded Dragon, she is very cool. Then the multiple crickets I keep for the Butterflyfish and Bearded Dragon.

I then also have a Red Claw Crayfish and when he dies I will either get 2 Red Claw Crayfish for thje tank he is in at the moment and try to breed them or I will get two Chaca chaca and try to breed them.

I am also planning on buying an emperor scorpion which will be very cool and I am planning on getting a Pueblan Milksnake as well. I love animals

my hamsters are pretty wierd.... my fat male hamster chases its daughter around and .... better not say... then the baby gets pissed off and chases the dad and beats him up since hes too fat and slow

had to seperate em cause the baby got really pissed earlier this weak and bit the dad a few times lol

I once owned an angelfish with no lower finnage, if that counts .

Birds:

a family of 5 magpies, 2 butcher birds, 3 pee wees

Reptiles:
1 blue tounged lizzard
1 water dragon

Mammals:
1 greyhound
1 jack russel
1 ferret
(rabbits didnt have a chance around my place)

insects
1 large wolf spider and her 150 children
1 stick insect
and for 3 days I had a blowfly on a bit of string that I used to take for walks (Im such a dag)

but then I had to move to Sydney to get a job and had to say good bye to all my critters.

Well, I had a pet lizard when I was a little kid. He was a plastic lizard, actually, because my parents wouldn't let me have a real one. He stayed in a plastic critter keeper with some grass and twigs.

Other than that...my pet pig is a little unusual. And he can certainly be weird.

I still don't understand the "pet egg"????
Brandi

i had a slug one time oh and that star fish.

nothing too unusual for me either.

i have been bitten by a goose before tho when i was very young. didn't like it much.

I would have to say a wild Spider. It lived in a crack in the fence in my backyard. We would cath flies, and throw them into it's web every week.

One day it dissapeared.... so did the gap in the fence