Domesticated Animals

...or more specifically, pets.

Aside from the usual, like dogs and cats, what animals have you had that you considered to be pets?

Foxes? Ferrets? Monkeys? Sheep? Guinea pigs? etc.

How did they relate to you?

Guinea pigs are food not pets.

@trev33 said
Guinea pigs are food not pets.

-Removed-

I was allowed to bring hedgehogs into the home as a child. One became very friendly. I’d put it inside my zipped anorak where it used to crawl out through the sleeve. One day as I sat with it in my lap it sunk it’s teeth into the back of my middle finger, possibly detecting the remains of a ham sandwich or something? I ran outside shrieking and shook it off. My memory of it as it disappeared was that it had somehow acquired a little patch of blue paint on it’s back?

@drewnogal said
I was allowed to bring hedgehogs into the home as a child. One became very friendly. I’d put it inside my zipped anorak where it used to crawl out through the sleeve. One day as I sat with it in my lap it sunk it’s teeth into the back of my middle finger, possibly detecting the remains of a ham sandwich or something? I ran outside shrieking and shook it off. My memory of it as it disappeared was that it had somehow acquired a little patch of blue paint on it’s back?

We've had lizards, fish, dogs, cats and a myriad of wild/injured animals over the years. My daughter, who became a, veterinarian, was forever bringing home or telling me we needed to bring home, injured wildlife. Some we managed, through luck more than any real medical prowess, to save and release. The trickiest was a "wounded" snapping turtle, who after a day with us became too dangerous, they are very quick to try and remove one's digits, if not held properly. It was quickly turned over to the professionals.

@badradger said
had a tame crow for a while very tame stayed for a few months then flew away. had a sheepdog that used to come for a visit every month or so, it would stay for a few days, after a couple of years I bumped into a couple walking him and mentioned his exploits,they replied that I wasnt the first person to say the same thing to them.....and there I was thinking Blue and me had a special bond.lol

i was deemed "housebroken" in the early 80's
i still do not have a "domesticated" certificate

@drewnogal said
I love wild birds.
In 1975 I returned home after working away for a year to find there was a donkey living in my parents large garden. He’d arrived there one day and then moved on somewhere else.

@badradger said
had a tame crow for a while very tame stayed for a few months then flew away.

...and there I was thinking Blue and me had a special bond.lol