Pets
When I was a child, our family had a great variety of small pets,
and of them all, I think rats were by far the best.
The types of animal we had included:
- Rats
- Friendly (even in the daytime) and intelligent
- Chihuahuas
- A crazily brave dog, will attack things many times its size!
- Cats
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- Arabian spiny mice
- Cute, and capable of eating aluminium (e.g. water bottle tubes)
- Wood mice
- Zoom around their cage with such momentum that they can loop
the loop, with a thumping noise as they do so
- Gerbils
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- Hamsters
- Tend to be savagely grumpy when woken during the day
- Tortoises
- Great fun, but need to hibernate over the winter
- Turtles
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- Toads (captured from the wild)
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- Slow worms
- Technically a lizard, but looks much more like a small snake
- Grass snakes
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- Rabbits
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- Guinea pigs
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- Chinchillas
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- A python
- Neither friendly nor unfriendly; needs both hands to handle it
safely (so it can't wrap itself round part of you; if a python
doesn't want to move, it doesn't move)
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Last modified: Sun Jun 10 22:10:59 GMT Daylight Time 2007