Which wild animal would you want as a pet?

[BlueIris]

If it were legal, of course.

I'm an otter lover, so I would want an otter.

[TZ]

1. I've actually gotten fairly close and touched a Panda

They have coarse bristly hair and humongous claws..and would rip you apart given the chance..so no Panda for me...I just said Panther cause in some ways, I feel like I have two small gray Panthers already..or at least they try to act like them (I was thinking about this watching them stalk each other before a wrestling match last night)

[elana i am]

2. giraffe

i :loveya: giraffes!

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Coelacanth.

[dropkickpa]

4. Giant rat!!

Dawwwwwwwww! The minute I saw them I wanted one SOOOOOO bad! Provisionally named the Bosavi Wooly Rat (no scientific name has been given yet).





http://smithsonianscience.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/[e-mail]

[nadine_mn]

31. come to my house and check behind my stove

I got a couple of them buggers

:smile:

[LostInAnomie]

5. Almost all those animals are incredibly dangerous or notoriously mean.

I'd like to own a Woolly Mammoth though.

[doc03]

6. Crow, highly intelligent and can be taught to talk n/t

[bluedigger]

7. Koala

Hey, if I can't get laid with my own personal koala...

(bluedigger, personally grateful his theory will never be put to the test...)

[BlueIris]

8. Koala would be a total chick magnet. Or dude magnet, if that's your thing.

I would totally stop and talk to a man with his own koala. But it would have to be clinging to his shoulder. Don't think I would fall for the "Wanna come over to my house and see my koala?" line.

[bluedigger]

10. *crosses pick-up line off list*

:rofl:

[Taverner]

9. Dude I wanna ride a Cheetah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuALY4IT9o

[LibertyLover]

11. Cheetah

I've held lion cubs, petted lions and leopards; played with for over an hour with a tiger cub, had a rhino calf start following me around like a puppy and rode Indian elephants. But the wild animal I'd like is a cheetah. It's the only thing that could outrun my greyhound.

[MrSlayer]

12. Platypus.

Would be interesting.

[petronius]

27. Just make sure it's female, or that you remove the poison glands...

[petronius]

28. A dolphin. It could tow me around while diving, surfing, or kayaking, and if

I got hungry I could send it out to grab me a tuna or something...

[MrSlayer]

35. Nah, the poison is what would make it interesting.

"Go right ahead and pet him." Priceless.

[opiate69]

13. Penguin

I don't really know why either, but I just love the little guys.

[rug]

14. Sloth. How hard can it be?

[nadine_mn]

32. I am available for adoption nt

[Sky Masterson]

15. I want a gawd damn night fury!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R-3vKrAoNaI/S631tE-OYOI/AAAAAAAAE1A/iZO3O-fjGRA/s1600/hiccup+and+night+fury.jpg
I reeeeally want one!!!

[wickerwoman]

16. Hyena

to get revenge on my rooster-rearing neighbors.

[nolabear]

17. Good fantasy, bad reality. I spent years with "rescued" wildlife people had as pets.

Man, there's something about a baby. Baby tiger, baby chimpanzee, baby wolf, baby bear...it hits the same "SQUEEEEEEEE!!" spot in the brain that baby people do. And babies being babies they attach to whatever takes care of them. And then they grow up strange and dangerous and confused, neither having gotten a proper wild animal raising nor being a human.

I know "lecturing" can be a killjoy and I know this is fantasy, so I'll add that I've been, in my somewhat colorful past, intimately involved with many a baby tiger being foster raised, often by a VERY beleaguered dog-mom and its person, and right up til the minute they bite you in the ass they are the most adorable thing on God's green earth!

[BlueIris]

18. "Intimately involved" with *many* a baby tiger?

Yikes.

And I just want an otter, not a tiger.

[nolabear]

23. Yeah. Tigers for some reason often make terrible mothers in captivity.

I knew someone who was a researcher who worked with big cats in captivity (he was kind of a cowboy and these days I think he'd be too much of a maverick for zoos to work with him) and there was a lot of overlap between rehab people and his work, since we knew how to foster wild animals. I never did it myself; I wasn't able to devote the time and attention to them they needed. But I loved visiting. They were adorable but got realy big before they stopped being kittens and they loved to jump you from behind.

One of the foster moms had a Bassett Hound named Carson (after McCullers) who was a great tiger "mommy" (they were bottle fed) but they damn near loved her to death after a few weeks. Those poor ears...

[femmocrat]

19. Marmoset.

So cute!

[liberaltrucker]

20. Raccoon

Cute little critters, but a bit on the mean side.

Kinda like me. :)

[mopinko]

21. i would like a hyacinth macaw.

some people are crazy enough to think they are pets, but i suspect only a handful are really happy (human or bird).

[eShirl]

22. None.

Wild animals should not be anyone's pet.

[Poll_Blind]

24. Praying mantii. They would eat everything that scares me in the house- face first.

During the summer times there can be a huge number of spiders and most of the spiders don't freak me out. But I'd much rather wake up with a praying mantis on my nose eating a spider alive than wake up with that spider on my nose just staring at me- you know, the you owe me money, fucker stare that spiders give ya.

Mantii just look at ya with "Is this guy too big to eat, head first? Yes. Is this guy too big to eat, head first? Yes. Is this guy too big to eat, head first? Yes." look.

PB

[hyphenate]

25. I think that most wild animals much prefer the status quo!

However, I would prefer an animal that was as cogent as myself, and knew what it meant to be a companion, and not a pet. In that situation, I think having a dolphin around, who had complete, infinite access to the open ocean, would be good. I like to think that any companion I had would understand that they had their freedom if they wanted it, but would prefer to hang around.

[XemaSab]

26. Dingo

n/t

[sakabatou]

29. Aren't ferrets semi-wild?

[dimbear]

30. Velociraptor. Cuddly and

you don't have to feed them yourself.

[JCMach1]

33. Cheetah! they actually do domesticate quite well

Pharaohs used to keep them as house pets.

[meow2u3]

34. I'd have an African wildcat for a pet if I could

African wildcats are the ancestors of the domestic cat and can be tamed as kittens. That's what the ancient Egyptians did, creating our feline overlords.

[xchrom]

36. An elephant. Nt

[Kaleva]

37. T-Rex

It'll take care of all the rif-raf in my town. Probably wipe out all the good folks too.

[joneschick]

38. an ocelot

I wanted to be Honey West when I grew up.....


(and my mother @81 still wants to be a spy when she grows up!)

:hi:

[JonLP24]

39. Cheetah

The cubs are especially cute. I'd be fearful of an adult Cheetah though. :scared:

[BlueIris]

40. I'm happy my ring-tailed lemur got some votes. You know, if I could have absolutely anything...

and otters weren't available, I would actually go with this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/sep/06/wildlife-endangeredspecies?picture=352597645

[Xicano]

41. Wolf