Weird pets... Page 6

My grandad had so many pets, going to his house was like visiting a zoo.

At the moment he has a swearing parrot and a Jack Russell cleverly called Jack.

He used to have a shitload of hamsters he was breeding, and two iguanas which then got too big for him to look after them.

He also had a couple of water dragons, which were really f**king weird.

A while ago a baby squirrel fell down his chimney. He kept it for a while and nursed it back to health until it was bigger and then let it go. For a while afterwards if you stuck your head out of his window and shouted "Sid" (what he called the squirrel) it would actually run along the houses and come to the window and take a nut of your hand! I was like 10 at the time and I thought it was actually the coolest thing ever.

Now my grandad's a bit mental and is addicted to buying things on Bid-Up TV.

There are two tiny moths in my bedroom which I'm getting used to. I don't know their names though.

Quote: NickTheDon @ May 31 2008, 10:13 PM BST

A while ago a baby squirrel fell down his chimney. He kept it for a while and nursed it back to health until it was bigger and then let it go. For a while afterwards if you stuck your head out of his window and shouted "Sid" (what he called the squirrel) it would actually run along the houses and come to the window and take a nut of your hand! I was like 10 at the time and I thought it was actually the coolest thing ever.

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I think you will find that actually is the coolest thing ever!

Not weird pets so much as weird kids (same thing in my opinion and a cautionary tale for all of you yet to be parents.

The first one was that I had a visitation from a police officer who had been sent to the house by the station after receiving a phone call from my house about Jack being stuck in a motorhome and he looked like he was dead.
This was in fact Jack the hamster who was not in fact dead but asleep in Barbie's motorhome. My four year old daughter obviously convinced this was an emergemcy beyond my capabilities had dialled 999.

When said hamster died both my kids decided they wanted a proper burial. So as they had seen daddy play the last post some weeks earlier decided a shoe box and last post burial was the best thing.
So as you do I did. However to people looking from their windows it looked like me, playing my cornet to the rose bush in the corner of the garden being flanked by two crying kids. Disturbing.

Quote: roscoff @ June 1 2008, 12:08 AM BST

The first one was that I had a visitation from a police officer who had been sent to the house by the station after receiving a phone call from my house about Jack being stuck in a motorhome and he looked like he was dead.
This was in fact Jack the hamster who was not in fact dead but asleep in Barbie's motorhome. My four year old daughter obviously convinced this was an emergemcy beyond my capabilities had dialled 999.

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Cute!

to both halves of the tale.

Quote: PhQnix @ May 31 2008, 11:49 PM BST

I think you will find that actually is the coolest thing ever!

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Agreed!
We were in Westminster and the squirrels were fearless, and came and took bread from our hands.

Were they tasty underwater squirrels?

I have never heard of them...

Obscure comedy reference alert!

I should've known!

I have Red Cherry Shrimp...

http://www.petshrimp.com/discussions/download/file.php?id=100

http://www.petshrimp.com/discussions/download/file.php?id=97

Wow flavoured pets. Hope they taste better than my Chocolate Labrador did.

Or my marmalade cat.