Have you ever heard the term “stranger things have happened”, well this is definitely true. I tend to be at the forefront of those stranger things sometimes. *LOL* Take my pets for example. In my lifetime I have had a pet chicken, who lived in the house for almost a whole year, because of an injury, and than after resuming her life outside as a regular chicken, would often come to the door, jump up against the door until she was allowed inside. She would only lay her eggs in the house, and no I don’t mean the chicken house either! *LOL* For those of you interested, she was housebroken too.
Here just a year or so ago, we had a pet duck named Lucky. He was in the house quite a few weeks due to an injury. We called him Lucky because he tangled with something and came out on the losing side, but still survived. Our guess was that it was a raccoon, but we are not sure. When my sister and I went out and found him he was bloody, and about half of his beak was no longer attached. After he healed up, he still had a hole between his beak and where his beak was supposed to attach. Tragically Lucky did not survive the following encounter with the raccoon.
I had a pet rat once. That’s not all that strange, but what is strange about my darling Mickey was that he developed pneumonia and I spent 5 or 6 days nursing him back to health. He wouldn’t eat or drink, wouldn’t hardly move, etc. So I had him with me constantly for something like 3 days. As I said, he wouldn’t drink, so I made sugar water for him, but he still wouldn’t drink it out of a bottle, but he would lick it off my finger, one drop at a time to start, and than later I would put several drops in my palm and he would drink it. After the first 3 days I deemed him well enough to sleep in his cage at night, instead of on the couch with me. A few months after his bout with pneumonia, he had a stroke, or what I’m assuming to be a stroke, because he always held his head at an odd angle for the rest of his life, and lost his sense of balance. He however lived to a ripe old age for a rat. I miss him though, he was such a sweetheart!
Well those are a few of my strange pets, and their strange lives. Hope you enjoyed this post, and PLEASE feel free to leave a comment with your strange pet or pet story!
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November 16th, 2008 at 11:19 am
My daughter had a pet baby kangaroo which she carried round in a home-made pouch!
November 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I grew up with just about every type of pet you could imagine. My mother’s only rule was that with the exception of the family dog and cat, all other pets must live inside a cage. We had fish, rodents, birds, snakes, lizard, and more. I think the strangest of these was probably the 3 1/2 foot long, spiny-tailed iguana named Buttercup.
Great post!
November 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
These are strange pets indeed. At least to my way of thinking. I once had a Betta named Puppie and after he died, there were no others. Cute post, here!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Phew, you’re brave nursing rats! If I saw a rat I would run a mile. There’s a saying that goes: There’s nowt as strange as folks!
Nice post!
November 17th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Great comments everyone!! I really appreciate the comments!! I’ve had an iguana before, his name was Spike.
The kangaroo sounds right up my alley!! *LOL*
Ahh Sweet Talking Guy, Mickey was a sweetheart!! No need to run!!
November 17th, 2008 at 9:17 am
that was a wonderful story. Being a pet owner myself I can relate to the stories. Beautiful!
November 17th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
lol, funny pets….:)