You Can Own These Weird Pets

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    • Publish Date: Oct 12 2016 5:03PM
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You Can Own These Weird Pets

Hedgehogs 

Hedgehogs are actually one of the most ancient extant mammals. Their physiology is basically the same as it was 15 million years ago. Like their ancestors, and most of the other early mammals, hedgehogs are nocturnal. Most pet hedgehogs are domesticated hybrids, which means they’re about as cuddly as something covered in spikes can be. They require lots of space and frequent bathing, but thankfully a wet hedgehog is even cuter than a dry one.

Skunks 

Skunks, which are closely related to weasels and raccoons, make surprisingly good, if weird pets. Assuming you don’t live in one of the many, many states that are not having it. As long as you remove the super soaker that sprays death juice, skunks are convivial fellows. They eat pretty much everything, and it’s easy to overfeed them and make them obese. Feeding a pet skunk is similar to coming up with meal plans for celebrity debutantes, with complicated macronutrient profiles and abundant controversy over what’s actually best for them. But honestly, what could be cuter than an obese skunk?

Emperor Scorpions 

Scorpions definitely make weird pets. This African rainforest scorpion can grow to be eight inches long. If you own one, think of the fun you can have. You can make a big deal of telling everyone that you, too, were freaked out by it, but over time you’ve grown to see it as, like, beautiful. Because it’s just, like, doing what nature made it to do? If that makes sense?

You can also take it out of its terrarium and hold it. Just picture being able to watch your friends’ expressions as they realize what a maverick you were this whole time, underneath all the social anxiety and weird ambient rage. They may not understand you, but the scorpion does. Even if it stings and bites you every time you touch it.

Kinkajous

Kinkajous are a South American rainforest-dwelling mammal that looks like a cross between a monkey and a bear. They’re actually closely related to raccoons and ringtail cats. They’re mostly docile, but during the day they act like they have hangovers. They’re very irritable until the sun goes down, and will sometimes scream and attack if bothered. More bad news – a lot of them carry a type of ringworm that can kill you if you’re infected with it.

Servals 

As far as weird pets go, these are pretty cute. Servals are a wild cat that hunts in African prairie. They grow up to fifty pounds, and look like a giant housecat. Perhaps for this reason, some adventurous souls choose to (try to) keep them as pets. This is a complicated proposition. They need a huge amount of space, they have intense predatory instincts (they have the highest kill rate of any cat on earth, at 50%) and they pee on everything. Including their owners. So if you want a tiny cheetah trying to murder your shins and then peeing on them, have fun with the complicated bureaucratic process of attaining permission to own one.

A compromise is the savannah cat, a crossbreed between the Serval and a domestic cat.


Have You Heard Of Any Other Weird Pets? Let Us Know In The Comments Below 

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Brenda Marshal PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

No I have not....

L.REVANTH REDDY ST. ANDREWS SCHOOL, BOWENPALLY

NO

L.REVANTH REDDY ST. ANDREWS SCHOOL, BOWENPALLY

NO I have not....

Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

Snail and earth worm can also be pets .

Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

No pets are weird .

Aditi Sahi D C MODEL SCH PKL-SEC-7

Yes people keeping leopards,lions as pet.

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