If you could have any exotic animal in the world...What would you choose?

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There is at least one jackass on the forum. We’re very close friends. But sometimes we fight. We even share a house together. I wanted to use that word, since normally I could never get away with a questionable word, but this usage is legitimate. 🙂
 
Moose are hard to ship…freight will be extra.

Echidnas are cute if they will use a litter box or something like that.
 
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What about a Portuguese Man O’ War?

Not very cuddly?

What is the spiritual lesson here? Beauty can be deadly?



Beauty on one face, but terror beneath the surface? 🙂
 
Pretty. Don’t know much about 'em. Amazing color. Looks like it would not be real pettable. I need to save up for scuba gear and maybe leave Colorado for one week out of the year, at least, for the deep once blue.
 
How sweet. I’m sure it would never “jelly” me. Francis is my confirmation saint, so I’m kind of like an animal whisperer. (except with Moose) 😃 … but then again, that may have just been an unfortunate misunderstanding.

One probably just needs to talk with jellyfish the right and they won’t be antisocial. Don’t you think? My sister got stung by a jellyfish. I was not there. But if I recall it was far from a nice experience.
 
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I can see you are getting psyched to suit up in some scuba gear and take the plunge. That’s good!
 
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TK421 said:
What about a Portuguese Man O’ War?
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Actually what you see is not a single jelly fish, but a whole colony of small ones in that helmet . They can even sting when dead too. It is a very painful sting at best and can kill you at worst.
 
We kept lionfish and sculpins when we had the saltwater tanks, both with venomous barbs.
 
Are you going to sing “Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree” for us?
 
Here’s an exotic pet. The Hoop Snake. I heard the ones from Oz are the worst.

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You Aussies. I think you should sing the star spangled banner. 😊
 
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There’s an extra bedroom in my house and she or he could stay there. Pandas eat mostly bamboo stems and leaves. From Wikipedia:
A panda’s daily diet consists almost entirely of the leaves, stems and shoots of various bamboo species. Bamboo contains very little nutritional value so pandas must eat 12-38 kg every day to meet their energy needs. But they do branch out, with about 1% of their diet comprising other plants and even meat.
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Now that is a LOT of bamboo! Poor things must spend all day eating!

As for tigers, I think I’d like a Bengal, naughty or not! Cheetahs can attack humans but it’s very rare (or so Wikipedia tells me).

Now my two kitty cats are affectionate, agreeable and easy to live with but NOT submissive if I want them to do something they don’t want to do. 🐱
 
Lion. Is a lion an ‘exotic animal’? I recently saw this Nature show where this guy was incorporated into a lion group. Seriously. He hung out with them, tossed around, sitting there on the ground, playing with them as they sat around under trees (African wildlife refuge). They gently roughhoused with him. It was really amazing to watch. The lion on his hind feet, licking the guy’s face. Super excited to see him. For whatever reason, they toned everything down with him, were very affectionate. Lions purr. They recorded it. It’s loud. I have heard stories about them changing their minds though about their people friends. Still I would take a lion over a pitbull. Pitbulls change their minds sometimes too about their people friends, and a lion would be cuter and cooler.
 
It would seem that reptiles are not so popular. I’m surprised no one even mention a reptile, however.

I’m thinking of getting a pterodactyl but I’m not certain how trainable they are and what the neighbors would think.
 
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It would seem that reptiles are not so popular
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Here is the desert tortoise I mentioned a few posts ago. I’m not sure I’d call him exotic, but you can no longer remove them from our local deserts (there was no such law when I acquired him many years ago).
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We get these cuties in our garden,with just a bit of handling they come very quiet.
My mother loves them and used to have a dish of milk ready for their breakfast.
Great for cleaning up snails…and people do say they keep snakes at bay.ive never noticed snakes when I have them anyway.
 
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