Quote: Meredith Hamilton

I like that plan, Barbara. The clerks at the pet store regret asking why I buy them when I point at Ripley. He watches each fish go into the baggie with great interest, knowing that they're going into the wading pool when we get home, and so is he.

Do you really buy feeder fish for the dog??? LOL! I never thought of that! I've thought of feeding the extra koi to the dogs but have held off due to the periodic treatments the fish need for aquatic bugs/infections, hence the newly found passion of the sardines/mackeral at the Dollar Store!

It's for entertainment purposes, not food, although he does eat them. Ripley loves to fish, and he's good at it.

I never considered that those darn little fish may be coated in toxins.

I have my dog and (up until a few weeks ago) a sweet old African Giant Millipede named Integra (she died at age 12, poor old girl).

My flatmate has a horse, a cat, a leopard gecko, and 3 bettas

My other flatmate will be getting a snake at some point.


I'm thinking of adding a ball python to my room, one of my professors has retired a female piebald from his breeding program and offered to to me....soooo pretty, already eating frozen, very hand tame, and she comes with a tank.

Holy cow! You had a millipede live that long?! Love the name BTW. Ours lived a year plus then something smelled REALLY BAD and my DS realized one had passed. The other a few months later.

I do have giant hissing cockroaches that are cool and I think I sell as many as novel pets as anything. Had friends with a couple that lived four years.

My DH drew the only line at NO ARACHNIDs. We have fostered a couple but he doesn't want them in the house. Something about growing up in the southwest.

My son used to raise soft corals ....to prove he could. He got bored after a year or so and he became a teenager. Now our tank is just fish.....easier on the power bill than running all those lights.

Half our pets are 'cause of the kids....who are all now teens. So daughter isn't breeding parakeets anymore and son not breeding bearded dragons, or leopard geckos or parrotlets. Or the oldest raising rabbits. Though I have to say I never met an animal I didn't like. So the kids were pretty open to anything and my DH was outnumbered. He would be satisfied with one fat annoying cat.

Now all I am breeding is Western Hognosed snakes, Everglades Ratsnakes, Childrens Pythons. Possibly Solomon Island Ground Boa and Sumatran Short Tailed pythons if I could ever find a nice black girlfriend for TealC. And we will see where the Timor Monitors go. Used to take in iguanas and savannah monitors for animal control. Not doing that anymore has opened a ton of room in my life.

Ooooo hissers. I kept a very small colony for a while until a heatwave made everyone a bit uh....active and I ended up with 60 babies to raise up. Luckily a collector in Florida contacted me wanting to buy all but the 4 females I wanted to keep with my original 4. Apparently super dark slightly red tinted black coloring is quite desirable to this collector and all of my babies ended up that color. I got about 4 years out of most of my roaches, lost 1 earlier at 3 (molting mishap) and two made it to their late fives (figures as they were ones that as babies I nearly lost to a molting accident...I stayed up all night gently bathing and removing shell of baby roaches with tweezers, my mother thinks I'm insane....

I'd like to make a funky little set up for some male bettas (obviously all separated from each other and I'd like them to each have about 3-5 gallons). Bettas would be nice since I need something I can leave alone when I go to conventions. I used to bring Integra with me in a travel container and she'd hang out around my neck at my table (used to get a long of people thinking she was some weird high fashion necklace, then she'd move and they'd freak out XD)

I have rats- a sphinx, a silver black, a black eyed siamese and a red eyed siamese. People usually start laughing when I say they are pedigree rats bought from a breeder (exept the hairless- they are not accepted by the organizations outside US and Russia) and look at me like I have two heads when they realize that I wasn´t joking and that pedigree rats actually exist

Yeah, I have rats that I raise as feeders and then there are rats that are 'upstairs' rats that are pets....Right now it is three boys....Percy a plain albino with personality, Fred, a petite black blazed hairless and Rhino, a tailless albino. I have had a lot of rats over the years. They are better pets than most furry little animals...most folks just have to get past the tail.

I'm going to have to get some goldfish to put the water dishes. Mwahaha!

We used to have rats but, our last one passed recently. I'm stupid allergic to the smell of urine and rats ended up being horrible for that. Especially since we had all boys.

Now we just have the dog, three cats, and a ball python. Nice to see some other herpers. When we get more room I'm getting a leopard gecko and bearded dragon. I used have iguanas many years ago, when there was very little info available, and would like to try them again someday.

Ugh, iguanas.....I ended up being THE call from AC for found igs. The staff were all uneducated and in shock when I would come in without heavy gloves.It is an iguana, not a bear. I explained that cat food and a 62* room temp would likely make the igs too cold to do much to me. DUH! They wanted me to do a educational class for their staff...donating my time of course. I explained that they needed to find a couple BOOKS and look up cold blooded. Had some of those animals 10 years.
I used to breed Ball Pythons. Cool snakes. Actually, my son and I used to breed Leopard Geckos and Beardies too. This year I am too busy to feed and tend 60 babies so I didn't breed anyone.
Only babies are our Sugar Gliders who make babies whether we want them too or not though they are slowing down now that they have hit their teens.

What I've had: Rats, hamsters, dwarf hamsters, gerbils, fat-tailed gecko, red-leg tarantula, squirrel rescued after Ike and released, Parrots (Eclectus and Timnah Grey), multiple dogs & cats, fish, some type of lizard smuggled in from Jamaica on a cruise, lovebird, ferrets, various baby birds, skunks, raccoons, fawn, javelina, bobcat (the last ones raised when I worked for a zoo).

Right now I have one Betta, dogs and cats. This is most conducive to traveling for vacation and finding pet sitters!