Boghound wrote:My mentor owned a raccoon for a while. He was a mean son of a gun, she used to come to work covered in bites and scratches. We're in Louisiana so I get you on that wild southern life, lol!
I think the most exotic pet I've had was either my pair of rosy boas, my garter snake, or my daughter's guinea pig. My mom isn't a fan of exotics so we've never really owned them. When my dad was growing up, he was an invert keeper and had a lot of cool inverts. Tarantulas, centipedes, mantises, etc. He also kept an arowana when he was raising me. If you didn't know fish could have personalities, he was a culture shock! That dude had a mean streak, except for with my father! It was so funny to see him play mean but then become a puppy for that man.
Hoping to own some snakes with my wife in the future, once we have secured a house! (: I'd also love to keep some inverts. I know everyone does isopods these days but there's a good reason why. They're so freakin cute! And I'd love to work myself up to keeping a tarantula some day. I'm a recovering arachnophobe-- my next step towards recovery is keeping a spider, but I think I'm going to start with a jumping spider. Something on the smaller side, lol.
That's so cool! I had no idea fish could have personalities! And, the stories of the racoons are so interesting, considering how different the two racoons' personalities were!
I was studying zoology in Colorado and had axolotls, a tarantula, a scorpion, a few pacman frogs, leopard geckos, crested geckos, a gargoyle gecko, a beardie, two tortoises, rabbits, and a mouse. Too many ^^; Part of it is due to being a veterinary technician so I end up being a foster for some exotics before passing them on to new homes!