November 25, 201114 yr comment_462804 Wow, pet spiders and rocks... who would have thought. :spop: If you do decide to keep a hedgehog, please keep in mind that they are lactose intolerant, so no milk. Report
November 25, 201114 yr comment_462819 Wow, pet spiders and rocks... who would have thought. :spop: If you do decide to keep a hedgehog, please keep in mind that they are lactose intolerant, so no milk. we had 2 small ones at our old place that came up and ate the cats food and drunk its milk that would explain the mess they left on the deck , i know you arent supposed to feed cats too much cow milk either but this cat wouldnt drink water :dunno: Report
November 25, 201114 yr comment_462820 Male Female Not the cuddliest of creatures but interesting all the same. Its neat watching them eat mini meal worms. Report
November 27, 201114 yr comment_462929 If you do decide to keep a hedgehog, please keep in mind that they are lactose intolerant, so no milk. And a pest. Handy in the garden but in the wild they are predators of native snails, weta and other bugs, as well as eggs of ground-nesting birds. Report
November 28, 201114 yr comment_463133 One of my grandmothers friends had a pet magpie. The only pets I've had are fish, mice, guinea pig, rabbits, birds and cats. Unless you count my monarch caterpillars and butterflies outside..... I used to have a gazebo that is fully enclosed with insect screen sides up, with a dozen swan plants in it and I put all the caterpillars off my big swan plant outside into there so wasps etc wouldn't get to them. I had about 24 butterflies but because the only place we have here that the gazebo fit was around the back where there is not much sunlight, the swan plant leaves were getting black/white fungus on them and the caterpillars started getting sick and dying. So I gave up on that idea. I still have (well had, until the caterpillars ate every single leaf on them LOL) 3 small potted swan plants outside but not many caterpillars so far... I have 4 Chrysalis' and 2 smaller caterpillars disappeared when their food supply ran out ( I was going to take them to my father in laws to put on his neighbours swan plants when I saw there were hardly any leaves left, but then they ate all the leaves by the time I checked again..... Report
November 28, 201114 yr comment_463141 When younger I have had magpies, hedgies, lizards wild rabbits and various rescued baby birds. Slightly more conventional now. Report
November 29, 201114 yr comment_463174 mince and worms. You have to be sure that the butcher has not illegally added preservative to the mince or they throw it straight up again. After assuring me that there was no preservative in it I found out the messy way that there was. The preservative they use is metabisulphite which gives off sulfur dioxide and you can test for it with malachite green. The solution goes colourless if there is sulfer dioxide there. Report
November 29, 201114 yr comment_463207 had a 5 foot miami corn snake when i lived in england, was a cool pet specially seeing it make mince meat of a full size rat. currently have four alpacas in the paddocks, god knows why lol Report
November 29, 201114 yr comment_463239 I haven't had any really weird pets, the weirdest was probably rats, and really if you've ever seen a pet rat (not the wild ones), you prob wouldn't think they're a weird pet. The weirdest pets I want to keep are snakes though, always wanted a snake, but since I've lived in nz all the time, I've never been able to have one . Report
December 1, 201114 yr comment_463361 I guess you could say that some of the bees I have kept were almost pets, and I have kept a bumblebee nest in the shed. Report
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