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Had a whitetail doe named Daisy. My nephew found her washed up in a brushpile on the creek bank after a big rain. She was tiny and nearly starved to death, my daughter fattened her up with goats milk. She was just as friendly as a dog to anyone who came around. She was never penned, she ran with the wild deer but she'd come up and stomp on the back porch every evening wanting to be petted and fed, grapes and fritos were her favorite. I thought the other deer would shun her because she always had human scent on her from being petted, but they never did. I put an orange reflective collar on her so no one would shoot her. She disappeared when she was two yrs old, never did figure out what happened to her.

I found a mallard drake that couldn't fly. It was December, IIRC. Colder than hell outside. I brought him home in a box and kept him for a few days until my Dad saw lice on it.


That was the end of my duck.

I had a hedgehog. Fleabag
I had a monkey - ride on my shoulder hanging onto my ear. Piss on my back.
I had a wild fox - laser sharp needle teeth

Now I have 2 house cats - happy

Also, along with various lizards, snakes and turtles, we had a pet ringtailed possum named Opie. Like Daisy, it stayed outside somewhere down in woods during the day and came up on the porch in the evenings and scratch on the door like a dog wanting to be fed.

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Had an iguana that a gf left me. It was dirty, nasty and would bite, scratch or whip you with it's tail.

Some nieces had sugar gliders. As near as I could tell, all they did was eat, sleep, [bleep] and pee in your pocket.

I had a couple of coons but where we hunt west river deer at, there was a guy named Jim. His nickname was messy Jim. He was a massive hoarder. He had all sorts of junk machinery around and the section he lived on was nothing but prairie dogs. All his livestock were inbred and wild. The sheep were never shorn in their lives. Looked like fluffy 55gal barrels. He didn't have water in his single wide so he never bathed. He did have this one sheep though that was always clipped and lived with him. He'd drive around in his ltd and the thing acted like a dog. I'm sure he had carnal knowledge of it.