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Title: Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: helios on August 14, 2003, 06:44:52 pm
Ok, since I was BRUTALLY (j/k) shot down on my last poll/survey thingy, I wanted to create one that (hopefully) hasn't been done before.... Who has the most unique pet? I mean totally out the ordinary. No standard pets but exotic stuff. Anybody? Anybody? I'll go first-- I have a Bengal cat. She is semi-domestic, and is 1/3 Asian Leopard (F3). She's gorgeous. Anybody else? Come on, this is thrilling stuff....
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Apollo on August 14, 2003, 07:02:59 pm
I used to have 4 Guinea Pigs, 3 rabbits a chihuahua and a small reticulated python.

I now have a large reticulated python.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: paigeoliver on August 14, 2003, 07:16:19 pm
The word unique means "one of a kind", so you cannot have a "MOST UNIQUE" anything.  ;D
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 14, 2003, 07:29:18 pm
Helios, not that I mind your polls at all, but considering you only have 17 posts to your name perhaps you should consider using the board first.  

We like to talk and have fun and all of that but this is an information based board, it ain't no tea party.  :)
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Apollo on August 14, 2003, 08:34:14 pm
He he a good old Howard_Casto spanking, good show.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: nighthawk2099 on August 14, 2003, 09:22:26 pm
Remeber the times when you were walking with your Dad and when you'd say something stupid "!!!WHACK!!!" right in the back of the head?  Nothing that would knock you out, but sure as heck got your attention.....

That's Howard....!

Thanks Dad...(ouch!...) ;D
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: SirPeale on August 14, 2003, 10:13:22 pm
Well, his post count may be low, but he's posting to the correct forum - Everything Else.  Sin would be posting in For Sale, or - $DEITY forbid - Main Forum.

And I've got a toad.  His name?  Toad. My three year old named him.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Odonadon on August 15, 2003, 12:39:54 am
I've got a pet Arcade cabinet.  You have to feed it quarters, but it lets you play with it's joysticks :)

Okay, that was wrong.  I apologize.

Odonadon
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: AlanS17 on August 15, 2003, 01:44:06 am
I've got a fuzzy lump. It's pretty boring until it cries for food. It's just a cat but it's the coolest cat on the planet. We're talking about the kind of cat you would see on a calendar or something...
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: spidermonkey on August 15, 2003, 02:56:17 am
I kinda like these off beat questions. They seem to be popular and most of them get tons of replies so I'm not the only one. They give your brain a little break from the typical arcade controls related questions. Especially since alot of the typical questions have been so repetitive and beaten to death. Don't get me wrong though after all game building is the main reason I frequent this board. By the way I have a baby raccoon. My second one to be exact. A very fun pet. She follows me around like a dog. Climbs all over my shoulders and sticks her nose in my ear. My wife's friend is a vet so she has all her shots. The only problem with having them for a pet is that you have to release them to the wild after a year or so because they start to get nasty no matter how hard you try to tame them. Kinda rough emotionally cause like any pet you get attatched to them. :( I live near "The Great Swamp" in New Jersey so thats where I release them when its time. Couldn't ask for a better pet when they're young though. Ok time for some more arcade talk ! ;D
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: nighthawk2099 on August 15, 2003, 07:46:40 am
I have kids, does that count....?   ;D
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: bionicbadger on August 15, 2003, 10:54:47 am
Ok, not me but...

I know a guy who used to work in a pet store, and he took home the all the bizzare mangled animals he could find.  He had the ugliest koi, one with one eye half an inch lower on its head than the other eye,  and another one that looked like it had a big cleft in its head.  He also had a hamster with a huge tumor on its side, the tumor was at least as big as the rest of the hamster, the thing could barely move around the cage.  All those things died after a while.  He does still have a pet caimen (about 4 1/2 feet long now) which I've never seen anyone else have as a pet.  I wouldn't want one, hes had to go get stiches on several occasions when it's bitten him, but he did take to get a photo with Santa last year (Santa was scared though and was standing behind him, while he held it).
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: helios on August 15, 2003, 11:37:43 am
You guys have NO idea how hard life is when you're bored out of your skull! You start coming up with all sorts of wierd questions to bug people with. I don't know.... Maybe I should limit my posts to obscure questions about Dragon King running on my 486..... (in the Artwork forum, of course) ;)
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: PacManFan on August 15, 2003, 11:56:27 am
I've had an Iguana named Tarn. About 4 1/2 feet long and acted a lot liek a cat..
-PMF
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: jakejake28 on August 15, 2003, 02:35:19 pm
when i was a kid, we had this emu-like thing we bought at the pet store. it was 3 feet tall and chased cars down our driveway.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: CitznFish on August 15, 2003, 02:39:50 pm
They were my dad's but growing up we had:


Golden Eagle
Red tail Hawks (8 or 9 differnt ones)
Great Horned Owl (ooglie - short for Ugly owl)
Prarrie falcon's
other  hawks and eagles.

My Uncle had a Mt. Lion.  I loved feeding it.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Pixelhugger on August 15, 2003, 08:03:59 pm
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Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: CitznFish on August 16, 2003, 01:10:33 am
They were my dad's but growing up we had:


Golden Eagle
Red tail Hawks (8 or 9 differnt ones)
Great Horned Owl (ooglie - short for Ugly owl)
Prarrie falcon's
other  hawks and eagles.

My Uncle had a Mt. Lion.  I loved feeding it.

In Thousand Oaks!? You didn't live in the old Jungleland did you?  :o

Wow! Someone remembers Jungle Land? That is now a park and the Civics Art Plaza (ugliest building in T.O.!)
We lived in hunnington Beach when he had the hawks/eagles/owl. Back then we used to come to T.O. to let them hunt. after he stopped keeping birds we moved to Thousand Oaks. Go figure, huh?
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Xphile on August 16, 2003, 01:47:43 am
Helios, not that I mind your polls at all, but considering you only have 17 posts to your name perhaps you should consider using the board first.  

We like to talk and have fun and all of that but this is an information based board, it ain't no tea party.  :)

I'll call you on that. (just cause no one else has)

"Bull$hit"

It is to a tea party...or whatever the heck else we want.
this here's a community of people with a common interest. and in this particular forum we are allowed to deviate from said interest and let our hair down, so-to-speak...


It ain't illegal, immoral, or against any other rules..you aint Saint, and last I saw nobody listened to the UFF (and/or you ain't in it anyways..), so you don't get to tell people what they can or can't post here.. *being as they are members*



now sidown and have a beer with me howie ol' pal!
(PS, we have rheas,african crowned cranes,nene geese, european red deer, indian black buck antelope, lamas(Llama and Alpaca), a caracal, miniature horses, zebu cattle..and a whole whack of exotic waterfowl..

and a couple hedgehogs.

and "fluffy" our kids' non-man-eating cat.


:)
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: SNAAAKE on August 16, 2003, 06:31:27 pm
I think I have the MOST UNIQUE pet...EVER ! :D
(http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS/nwater1.jpg)
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: CitznFish on August 16, 2003, 11:12:44 pm
I think I have the MOST UNIQUE pet...EVER ! :D
(http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS/nwater1.jpg)

My friend has a Western Diamondback. Caught it when it was a baby. We named it "bink"
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Brax on August 18, 2003, 10:42:59 pm
This would be my pet dust mite. I have another 200 million in my bed.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Odonadon on August 19, 2003, 01:19:16 am
This would be my pet dust mite. I have another 200 million in my bed.

Ha ha!  Points to Brax!  Good one :)

Odonadon
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: shmokes on August 21, 2003, 08:10:04 am
My cat fetches.  She won't stop until I refuse to throw anymore after about a hundred throws and her panting like she's going to kill over at any second.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Hoagie_one on August 21, 2003, 09:44:16 am
I got a Pet Rock
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: jakejake28 on August 21, 2003, 12:06:22 pm
I got a Pet Rock

mine died on me a while back :P
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Hoagie_one on August 21, 2003, 03:40:20 pm
I got a Pet Rock

mine died on me a while back :P

Mines like 4 billion years old, im expecting it to die any day now
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: CitznFish on August 21, 2003, 05:58:54 pm
I have some sea monkies... they haven't lived yet... :)
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Lilwolf on August 21, 2003, 11:43:31 pm
I had a pot belly pig... when I lived in a small one room efficiency.  I would wake up with hoof marks on my back... Great convo piece.

My wife has ferrets now.... they stink... but are cute.

I had some sea monkeys THAT LIVED (for about 4 months)

....

I have 2 kids... they are pretty wild...

And I have an elephant that I keep in my backyard... Hes George!  He's great when you want to move some logs... from one side of my yard to the other... He also can stand on his head... and Hes pink!  And he dances in a tutu and he pulls a wagon on mulberry street...

wait....

In the immortal words of Socrates.... "I drank what?"
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Pixelhugger on August 26, 2003, 08:05:00 pm
Lilwolf- Impressive accomplishment maintaining a working Sea Monkey hatchery. Or is it colony? School? Herd? Gaggle?

*pixelhugger drifts off in thought wondering what they use those tiny tridents for....*
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: SirPoonga on August 26, 2003, 08:56:42 pm
I have a dwarf albino siberian yellow jacket red hooded brown crest seamonkey.
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: tbombaci on August 28, 2003, 03:36:47 pm
We have a sugarglider.

-Tom
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: jakejake28 on August 28, 2003, 11:40:24 pm
We have a sugarglider.


ooh, funny and cruel story that animal activists might not wanna hear:

when i was in high school, our teacher brought one in to help explin some formula based on weight and gliding, i dunno what it really was tho... so he brings in a sugar glider, and drops it from 12 ft, it glides down... then he gets a pin, ---punks--- one of the wings, so you see a tiny hole, and does it again.  :o needless to say, the glider died, and we all learned a lil about science and a lot about life :-\
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: eightbit on August 29, 2003, 01:22:36 pm
I have a dog...
(http://hower.us/misc/IMG_2039a.JPG)
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: GamingGreg on September 11, 2003, 04:13:58 pm
I used to have a couple of scorpions and a black widow in a jar for a couple of weeks. (many years ago)  However the black widow killed the scorpions, and I wasn't able to keep the spider alive for long.  Does that count?
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Frostillicus on September 11, 2003, 07:32:13 pm
I have a leather Gimp-on-a-chain I keep in a large trunk.  We take him out for parties.

Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Lilwolf on September 14, 2003, 08:44:45 am
Well hell Frosty... Bring out the Gimp!
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: Spaced Invader on September 14, 2003, 03:42:30 pm
I have three Greys and a Reptillian. Really. ;)
Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: F|end on September 14, 2003, 05:37:30 pm
Well, i'm still searching for my lost pet wich must be hidden somewhere in my body here's his pic:

(http://www.insectsafari.com/insectid/newimages/flea.jpg)

Well, i decided to call him Bush, i don't really know why but the name sounds cool enough for this kinda animal's inteligence! :P

Title: Re:Who has the MOST UNIQUE Pet?
Post by: shmokes on September 16, 2003, 09:03:25 pm
the gimp's sleeping...