pets you want to have or are considering to get

I just thought I'd say that pretty much every Asian palm civet I know that has reached sexual maturity has become aggressive sadly. I'm sure you already know this as you are on a waiting list but just be prepared for a fluff ball of fury in the future haha

 

I currently have a few reptiles, including a leopard gecko, a Kenyan sand boa and a crested gecko. However, I hope to get a Checkered garter snake pretty soon.

Along with common reptiles such as a ball python, a rhino iguana, and among others, I hope to get a few steppe lemmings someday, even though they're very hard to get in the United States, quite a bummer. Maybe will try for a few fancy rats, even a Brazilian short-tailed opossum.

Bird-wise, I hope to probably get a few budgies, or a cockatiel. Quite undecided, however

 

Varanus hamersleyensis. Varanus sparnus. Varanus ocreatus. Varanus nesterovi.
Varanus lirungensis. Varanus giganteus. Tukutuku rakiurae. Conraua goliath.
Melanosuchus niger.

 

Chipmunks, eh? Admittedly I'm not big on rodents, since my hamster experiences left something to be desired. (though like I said, I never got to keep a lot of small pets) What are chipmunks like?

 

You should check out ReptilesnCritters it is an online store that sells cape banded white thoat monitor for 1100$

 

I have only noticed your post now so sorry for the 6 month slow reply. Chipmunks are extremely active and are also doing something. Where I work the chipmunks will go on your hand and eat out of it if it is inside their enclosure but they do not like getting picked up. However where i work nothing likes getting taken out of their enclosures including animals like chinchillas, ferrets and hedgehogs as they are not use to it.

 

Only some species of parrots, like budgerigars or cockatiels and/or small breed-dogs (like chihuahua).

As kid I have kept budgerigars (three, for 9 years), freshwater fish, turtles, dogs/cats, sparrows, tortoises.

But in a zoo, I would keep a variety of wild animals (but not domestic, or white tigers, or albino zoo animals, etc.)

 

I dislike albino animals. Most White tigers are related meaning many are inbreed.

 

Agreed. Me either. But would keep some hybrid zoo animals, like hybrid orangutans, chimps..

 

I currently have a

. Male Blood Red Corn Snake named Zuko
. Male Western Hognose Snake named Groundhog
. Female Black Milk Snake named Jet
. Male Hybrid Desert-California King Snake named Rex
. Male Ghost Coral Corn Snake named CC
. Male Jungle Carpet Python named Mowgli

As you can probably assume, I love reptiles; especially snakes. I consider myself to be a herper.

In time, I might get

. Snow Southern Pine Snake
. Scaleless Corn Snake
. Madagascar Giant Hognose Snake
. San Francisco Garter Snake
. Oustalet's Chameleon
. Indonesian Blue-tongued Skink
. Cinnamon Frog
. Texas Banded Gecko
. Albino Ball Python
. Tartar Sand Boa
. Albino Het Russo Leucistic Ball Python
. Rhinoceros Rat Snake
. Indian Rock Python
. Red-eyed Tree Frog
. Brazilian Rainbow Boa

But my mind changes what I want constantly so i'll never truly know.

 

I don't have any animals currently. When I was a child, I had a small collection of parrots: two lovebirds, a sun conure, and a Senegal parrot. All of them save one lovebird I got from people who were giving them up, which is generally the best way to acquire parrots unless you're really particular about the species and/or color form. The adopted lovebird and sun conure died before I graduated college; when I decided I was going to live abroad after college (that didn't work out), I gave up the other lovebird and the Senegal.

I would have had sugar gliders had they been legal in Massachusetts when I was a child; I got a book on their care in my early teens and was obsessed ever since. Unfortunately, Massachusetts (with some of the strictest exotic animal laws in the nation), didn't legalize them until 2013.

I still entertained the fantasy of living abroad until I moved to Texas (which is in some ways practically a foreign country to someone from New England), and also felt horrible about giving up the Senegal (the lovebird not so much; he was the purchased lovebird and not hand-raised as it turned out) so I haven't gotten new pets. Also, I've only just purchased a place. Even though I could have pets when I was renting, I didn't really want to give the landlord an extra security deposit.

I've been trying to find a breeder of mousebirds who hand raises them. SoftbillsForSale had blue napes that weren't hand-raised, and Beaks Birdhouse in Illinois sometimes raises them but didn't have any when I asked. Aside from that, every breeder I can find listed on the Internet seems to have stopped breeding them. Most of my emails either bounced or got no response, though the woman who literally wrote the book on mousebirds was very helpful, and the story of why hand-raised mousebirds went from being available for $250 from a dozen breeders to basically impossible to find now sounds a bit like a comedy of errors (if it weren't for the unfortunate side effect of making mousebirds basically unavailable).

I may or may not find a mousebird in the near future, but I've also been looking at Craigslist. Plenty of people giving up parrots and sugar gliders, though the majority of both (except large parrots like grays and macaws which I have no interest in keeping), are clearly babies from unlicensed breeders. I've seen a few that I probably would have gotten if I already had at least one pet, but since I'm currently able to travel without finding a pet sitter, I haven't quite steeled myself to take the plunge. With parrots, I find that a good number is one for each shoulder and a lovebird on the head, so I'll probably end up with some combination of a Quaker, a green-cheeked conure, a Senegal or Meyer's, an Indian ringneck, and a cockatiel.

I have considered buying baby parrots, though that's not something I've done since my tenth birthday with the lovebird. It started because cockatiels are often possessive of their owners (my father had a 'tiel who was absolutely vicious), and since parent-raised cockatiels bond well with new people when young, I thought it might make more sense to get a baby than adopt what might prove to be an older parent-raised bird who will never bond with me. In the process, I discovered that there's a place in San Antonio that sells parrotlets. I've wanted a parrotlet ever since I was a kid (specifically a spectacled parrotlet, though I've never seen them for sale), but nobody in Massachusetts sold them. So I may go for a "parrotlet on the head" rather than a lovebird on the head. I also discovered a breeder in Texas that sells iris lorikeets. I'd never heard of them, but they're beautiful, inexpensive, and eat seeds (it's not clear if they can be fed a balanced diet of pellets, but I'd assume so.) It's a tempting thought, certainly.

I've also considered buying baby prairie dogs. Prairie dogs are adorable, and are another pet I was furious Massachusetts didn't allow (unlike sugar gliders, it still doesn't) when I learned they could be kept as pets. The question is: would I have the time and space for them? While sugar gliders are nocturnal and wouldn't overlap with my parrot quality time, prairie dogs are diurnal. I suppose I could have a parrot on each shoulder prairie dogs on my lap, except my lap is where the computer goes.

Plus, while the condo I've bought is a decent size, I still haven't bought a dining room table yet (place I was renting had one of those counter things), let alone put in other animal cages, Assume I'm going to have at least two large parrot cages and a ferret cage for the sugar glider; I'm pretty sure I can fit all that comfortably in my living/dining room. But can I fit a second ferret cage for prairie dogs without looking like a crazy animal hoarder? I could put one cage in the bedroom, but the bedroom shares a wall with my neighbor. I don't know how loud sugar gliders or prairie dogs are, put I wouldn't put any parrot louder than a cockatiel in the bedroom. Prairie dogs are certainly tempting, but it's just about the end of breeding season, so I have another 9-10 months to think about it.

 

Zygodactyl cheek at Welcome to the wonderfulworld of Mousebirds - HOME it sells hand raised mousebirds. Anyway here are the animals I want and/or might be getting.
These are the animals I currently have:
Male thick tailed gecko
Make spotted Python
5 bronze corydoras ( 2 are albino )
9 rummy nose tetra
10 neon tetra
1 pepperard corydora
2 Siamese algae eaters
4 wild caught wild type swordtails ( 2 male 2 female )
2 pearl dainos
3 leopard dainos
1 zebra daino
Male Siamese fighting fish
2 female cockatiels

Animals I want:
2-7 Any species of pheasant
1-3 Trogon
2-7 Any species of quail
As many species of owl I can get my hands on
As many species of reptile I can get my hands on
1-4 Palm civets ( any species )
4-12 Rainbow lorikeets ( any species )
3-8 Kookaburra ( either species)
2-5 Ruddy shelduck
1-3 Axolotol
2-5 Possums ( any species)
1-3 Razor billed curassow
4-9 Canadian geese
2-6 Kusimanse
6-10 Spinifex hopping mouse
3-9 Common zebra
1-4 Rhea ( either species )
3-10 Plains rat
3-10 Bettong
5-12 Dunart
1-4 Quoll
3-8 Barbary sheep
1-3 Tapir ( either species )
3-7 Peccary ( any species )
2-4 Feral cammel
6-15 Eastern Grey kangaroos
5-15 Red kangaroos
1-3 Yellow bellied gliders
1-3 Bilby
3-9 Wallaby ( any species )
1-2 Squirrel glider
1-2 Sugar glider
1-3 Kowari
1-2 Yellow throated marten
1 Jaguarundi
4-8 Domestic duck
3-7 Any species of tenrec
1-4 Florida gar
4-10 Australian archer fish
8-15 Blind cave fish
1-5 Elephant nose fish
1-4 Freshwater stingray
1 Of any Arowana species
1-4 African dwarf frogs
2-5 Fire bellied newts
2-4 Green tree frogs
1-5 Blue toed frogs
1-10 Red tailed black cockatoo
1-8 Eclectus parrot
2-8 Of any species of macaw
1-3 Burmese ferret badger
1-2 Honey badger
1-5 Egyptian goose
1-3 African civet
1 Dwarf cassowary
1 Part malamute part wolf crossbreed
1 Rat terrier
1 French bulldog
1 Labrador
2-12 Any deer species ( apart from moose )
1 Australian cattle dog
2-6 Domestic goats
2-6 Indian peafowl
2 "Mini" pigs
6-12 Squirrel monkeys
1-3 Agouti ( any species )
1-4 Ostriches ( any subspecies)
5-12 Black Buck
1-4 Emus
1-4 Water buffalo
1-3 Mandarin duck
3-6 Domestic turkey
10-12 Flamingo ( any species)
6-10 American bison
6-12 Tahr ( any species )
1-3 Thick spined porcupine
1 Clouded leopard ( probably an individual that can't breed so I wouldn't interfere with captive breeding )
1 Snow leopard ( once again probably an individual that can't breed so I wouldn't interfere with captive breeding programs )
1-2 Bongo ( either species ) ( once again would probably get an individual that can't breed so I wouldn't interfere with captive breeding programs)

If I were to get the animals above ( apart from the various species of dogs ) I would most likely start a small zoo or Wildlife park and open it to the public which would be a life long dream completed!

Animals I might be getting soon(ish):
3-8 Domestic chicken
1 Rainbow shark
1 Rummy nose tetra
Hopefully a Westie or jack Russell but probably not

 

Realistically:
Asian Palm Civet
Teacup Pig
Pygmy Goat
Harvest Mice
Skunk
Common Marmoset
Domestic RAT!
Acacia Rat
Patagonian Cavy
Raccoon Dog

I would have chosen others such as meerkats, solenodons etc. but they would make bad pets

 

Well...that and the fact that they are un-obtainable in general, let alone into the pet trade...

 

I don't see how some of them would be better than Meerkats.

Why did you put 'RAT!'?

 

Meerkats make bad pets and are mostly becoming trendy after the car insurance advert.
If I would keep meerkats, I would have at least 8 but most are only single pets.

I did 'RAT' because they are one of my favourite animals (domestic ones).

 

id say the coolest one would be a clouded leopard but an elephant would also be cool and if i had one i would ride it to school every day

 

yeah rats are awesome and also its cruel to keep meerkats unless you have a massive enclosure and a mob of atleast 10

 

So true, if only I had rats myself.

 

I fully understand why Meerkats are bad pets, but what I don't understand is why you consider species such as Civets, Marmosets, Skunks, Maras, Raccoon Dogs and Pigs to make good pets.