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I currently have a bobcat named appropriately enough- Rowdy. He is a deer, chicken, and rabbit eatin' SOB. Great pet. Got a permit from the state for him.

Had a fox. Pretty but I don't recommend them. He used the litter box but- to put things onto perspective- they sell red fox pee as cover scent. When he used the box you had to change it RIGHT NOW! Talk about run you out of the house. I threw the damn thing out the basement door but he ran around to the front door and was waiting on my cell mate when whe went to walk the dog. She knew I was gonna kill it so she found some sucker in Ft. Lauderdale to take it.

Friend had a couple different red foxes , uncle had a bobcat when I was a kid.

Hey Roger, ever see George anymore? Wasn't that his name?

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We had a pet squirrel for a while

My brothers had a litter of woodchucks after shooting the mother. They liked to hide/rest underneath the kitchen counter and were easily house-trained. They'd climb into the bathtub to do their business.

Fox

MY experience was completely different, descented, did not smell, hair is coarse, was very gentle, I would put him inside my shirt that was tucked in and he would just lay there, never bit or scratched anyone..... very doscile!

Obviously MMV

I had a rattlesnake. He hated me.

Me too

I remember goin somewhere when I was a kid and the lady had a pig under her kitchen sink

Had a couple buddies visit from out of town wanted to drive around looking for old cars left out to rot. We see something they were interested in we'd do a stop-n-knock. One place we come to an old fella opened the door, all black-faced and wrapped in a blanket. He invited the three of us in to talk about old cars and we soon figured out why he was so dark. He had a chair perched over a grate and he sat there and let the heat blow out on him, wrapped up with that blanket over his head. Must've been an oil burner. 20 years worth of dirty dishes were stacked up on the counter, garbage all over.

Anyway, the whole time we chatted old Everett up his pet rooster was running back and forth on the back of the couch, squawking up a storm. That chicken was so psychotic he had that couch wore down to bare springs. Old Everett was fine but that chicken didn't like strangers. LOL

Dog with no legs. Named him cigarette. Every now and then we'd take him out for a drag.

We caught a baby possum in my grandmother’s house after it got in via the attic. We fed it bugs and a pinch of ground beef now and then. Couple of box turtles, anoles and small snakes for a while.

Kept snakes of all types growing up. King snakes, copperheads, rat snakes, boas and pythons. Wife was very tolerant after we got married. Our daughter and son fell in love with the critters and had some of their own growing up. My biggest was an 18 foot long python. Total sweetheart.

Only “different” pet was a wolf/dog cross. Gentle but like to play stalk my youngest and became scared if it so it had to go. Silly thing dug its own den/bed under the deck rather than use its house.

Daughter had a python. Very docile animal, never once tried to bite.
We named it Alf, after the cat eating TV critter, because we would be sitting on the couch, holding him, and when the cat would enter the room, Alf would slowly slither towards it.

Ball Pythons make great pets. I had a 3 foot one that I would wear wrapped around my neck, even while driving.

I had a pig that was a runt and they were going to kill him at the farm I worked. I offered to bottle raise him. Kept him in a dog kennel. He was like a dog. Liked to play and follow me around. When he grew to market size he was too strong for the kennel and would break the gate open. When I came home from school if I didn't let him out. Dad took him to the slaughter house and had him butchered. Some of the best tasting pork I remember. We enjoyed him as a pet and a bunch of good meals.

I moved to Belize in the 80's for the adventure. There was a guy on my island who raised a baby Jaguar into an adult. He would take her to the beach every morning for a swim. Hows that for a cool pet. The cat even slept on their kind size bed and it was big pushing 200 lbs! The guy in the pic was 6ft 3in to give you an idea of cat size.

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