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Today I was at work and when I went outside to smoke, there was this guy walking a fox down the street. A guy owning a fox as a pet was pretty awesome to me, but kinda sucked since I've wanted a fox as a pet for a while, but never really tried to get one.
I hear that it's generally a bad idea to have any sort of wild animal as a pet, but you'd think that because a fox is kinda like a dog, it would work, right? |
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...but you'd think that because a fox is kinda like a dog, it would work, right? [/ QUOTE ] Foxes are usually scared of people. I think they are very hard to domesticate. |
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Obv just kidnap that guys fox since its already domesticated.. i hope. That would be sweet if he caught a wild fox and kept it as a pet though.
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oops, sorry I thought the title said "Exotic Pot Thread",
time to hit the sack. |
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ideas:
squirrels sugar gliders prairie dogs monkeys thumb monkeys |
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[ QUOTE ] ...but you'd think that because a fox is kinda like a dog, it would work, right? [/ QUOTE ] Foxes are usually scared of people. I think they are very hard to domesticate. [/ QUOTE ] Not some of the foxes that live around me. They'll beg for food sometimes. Plus if you've seen Grizzley Man you'll notice that the foxes there don't seem to mind people. |
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I've had pigeons before. Not real exotic but I don't know of anyone else who had pigeons.
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people with exotic pets are usually just giant attention whores and very douchy, considering most of the pets that fit this catagory its incredibly selfish to own because they arent domesticated and you are taking them away from the habitat which they are designed for.
Yeah, its really cool that you own a leopard, but you live in the [censored] desert and its never more than one quick movement from eating you, you [censored] jackass. |
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How are Sugar Gliders as pets?
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I've had pigeons before. Not real exotic but I don't know of anyone else who had pigeons. [/ QUOTE ] My grandfather bred and raced homing pigeons. Some of his birds were used during WWII by the US Army Signal Corps. |
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How are Sugar Gliders as pets? [/ QUOTE ] From what I understand, they are smelly, it takes forever to bond with them, and since they are nocturnal you won't even see them during the day. Not that great. |
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people with exotic pets are usually just giant attention whores and very douchy, [/ QUOTE ] This seems to be a strange thing to be hateful about. The term 'exotics' generally refers to anything that isn't a dog, cat, or farm animal. Most commonly rabbits, ferrets, rats, and other small furry things. After that comes birds and small lizards. Do you have something else in mind when you think of 'exotic' pets (like that guy who had a tiger and an alligator in his Bronx apartment)? |
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I think if I ever owned a pet, a fox would be in high contention for my choice. that's just [censored] sweet.
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my junior high health teacher had a pet wolf...even brought it to class one day during the OJ Simpson trial...
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My kids babysat a friend's tarantula a few years ago over Halloween.
I sat on the front porch and let the tarantula crawl up my arm as a I handed out the candy. There were a lot of screams that year [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I was surprised at how many of the smaller kids were not scared and touched it. It was low maintenance as you just had to feed it a live cricket every so often. |
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[ QUOTE ] people with exotic pets are usually just giant attention whores and very douchy, [/ QUOTE ] This seems to be a strange thing to be hateful about. The term 'exotics' generally refers to anything that isn't a dog, cat, or farm animal. Most commonly rabbits, ferrets, rats, and other small furry things. After that comes birds and small lizards. Do you have something else in mind when you think of 'exotic' pets (like that guy who had a tiger and an alligator in his Bronx apartment)? [/ QUOTE ] in my mind exotic pets are stuff like tigers and crap. Rabbits and birds and those kinda things arent exotic IMO, you can buy them at the mall, thats not very exotic [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Ill explain my hate with a dog analogy since most people know someone im about to describe. Its like the person who owns a great dane but lives in an apartment, the guy who buys an australian shepard and works 80 hour weeks, they took absolutely zero consideration for the needs of their animal when they picked one out, they picked something out entirely on the "cool factor" of it. They wanted something a little different and a little unique because they want the attention that comes when people find out they own a great dane or whatever. There is some [censored] who lives down the street from me who owns 5 siberian huskies. I live in Phoenix, its one of the hottest cities in the entire world, and this peice of [censored] buys a bunch of dogs that were bred to live in the cold. He takes them for walks in the middle of the day, why does he do this? Cuz he loves people to ask him "wow, are those wolves??", "wow, Ive never seen a dog with blue eyes!". Doesnt matter that the dogs are probably miserable as [censored] because its hot and they are wearing giant fur coats, he doesnt care they were bred to be sled dogs and that walking around the block doesnt even come close to giving them what they need. Nope, all he cares about is that they look cool and he always wanted one. I just think its cruel and completely selfish. It annoys me when people dont treat animals like living things and give them the respect that that should warrant, instead they treat them like possesions and give little thought to their needs. and IMO, people who keep [censored] like a wolf chained to a stake in their back yard, or a couger locked in a small cage on the back porch, just so they can say they have one, are douchebags. YOu arent steve irwin, you dont run a zoo, and they are called "wild animals" for a reason. Let them do their thing where they belong. In the wild. Obviously its not exotic pet owners that i dislike, its any bad pet owner. It just happens to be in my experience that exotic pet owners are most often the worst ones. |
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Alobar,
I find myself agreeing with you at a frighteningly high frequency. Sometimes I even go to post something and found that you've already said it better. I don't know why this concerns me. Back when I was young, I owned two iguanas. I should have never ever been allowed to have that much responsibility and of course they both died. Thankfully I'm much more thoughtful now when it comes to being a pet owner. |
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alobar is right
that said, i want a monkey |
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The Muntjac, a miniature deer with fangs that barks like a dog:
http://www.digitalwildlife.co.uk/bri..._9359%20lw.jpg I plan to purchase a capuchin (or another small monkey)along with a muntjac, teach the capuchin to ride the muntjac, wear light armor and carry a small sword, and then scare the living crap out of my friends after I slip some LSD into their drink. |
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I knew a girl who had a pet skunk. She said it was the best pet she could ever imagine, although even when descented it was slightly smelly, just cause of its natural body odor.
They took it away from her when she got caught crossing the border with 10,000 pills of ecstacy though. |
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My grandmother had a monkey when I was a little kid. I've never had any really exotic pets but my GF has had a chinchilla(sic?), vietnamese pot-bellied pig, an african grey as well as various snakes and reptiles.
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I agree with Alobar's original post, that being said I think even a fox wouldnt be classified as "exotic." I have always wanted a fox though, and will now start a thorough google search on the domestication process of them.
My friend has a sugarglider and its really awesome, kinda smells funny though. |
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When I was a kid I wanted a pet Elephant so that I could have him step on people that were mean to me.
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python
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I want a chevrotain.
http://www.palmbeachzoo.org/images/g...chevrotain.jpg Right now I have two tiny spiderling tarantulae. One is a Costa Rican zebra leg (A. seemani) and the other is an astoundingly fuzzy and beautifully colored Martinique Pinktoe (A. versicolor). They are as exotic as it gets right now. I would also love to have a jellyfish tank, or some better way of sustaining seahorses. Those things are amazing. |
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A lady that lived by a friend of mine used to walk her llama's pretty often in the summer, I thought that was awesome. I seem to remember him saying something about them spitting on people though?
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Top 10 Stinkiest Animals
I saw some show on cable where they ranked the top 10 stinkiest animals.
And the fox was on the list. I remember this because it surprised me. The skunk and hyena were also on the list. http://home.alltel.net/ma31148/rev0201.html |
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Good post, Alobar.
My parents have a license from the state to take care of wild animals that have been abandoned. When I was growing up, we usually had a couple raccoons whose mother had been hit on the road and turned in to the local state park. They were great fun when they were young, but they imprint very easily. We typically only had them until they were either recuperated or old enough to be release back in to the wild. The young raccoons we would get in the spring and gradually release in the fall. Among the animals we took care of: raccoons - super playful and lots of fun, but probably did not survive since they imprinted on humans and were easily caught. I should mention that we only had them as adolescents, and adults are bad-ass and are known to kill cats and small dogs - definitely not pet material. fox - skittish as hell and probably the only one that lived canadian geese - they crashed because their wings froze - very nasty animals great horned owl - also easily imprinted. There's a good story that goes with this one. screech owl - make the coolest sounds, not like screeching at all long-eared owl - we had one for about eight years. A great pet, actually. kestrel - we had two and both died from heart attacks while feeding them red-tailed hawk - never survived the recuperation - I can't remember what injury it was opossum - I don't really remember much other them playing dead - seriously. I feel like I'm missing something, but I think that's it. Let me be clear here - these were not pets. The only one we kept for more than the time needed to recuperate or grow up was the long-eared owl, and that was because he only had one wing. If I remember correctly, he flew into the headlights of a car originally. (Yeah... the whole thing about "wise" owl - definitely not true.) |
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A lady that lived by a friend of mine used to walk her llama's pretty often in the summer, I thought that was awesome. I seem to remember him saying something about them spitting on people though? [/ QUOTE ] i went to college next to a llama farm, and our mascot was the llamas they do spit |
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