So the other day, a co-worker put up pictures of a litter of kittens they were giving away to a good home. I have to admit, they were extremely adorable. However, I have thus far resisted adoption.
Which got me thinking about another question though. If you could safely (for you and the animal) have any animal from the zoo as a personal pet, which would you choose?
Personally, I was enamored with the giant elephant shrew when I visited the Philadelphia Zoo.
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Snow tiger In case Matt does not believe me...
About the species: White tigers are neither albinos nor a special species. They differ from the normally colored tigers by having blue eyes, a pink nose, and creamy white fur with black stripes. If they were albinos they would have pink eyes and a lighter nose color. A tigers stripes are just like human fingerprints meaning that no two tigers have the same pattern of stripes. White tigers aren't necessarily born from other white tigers. White tigers get their color by a double recessive allele. A Bengal tiger with two normal alleles or one normal and one white allele is colored orange. Only a double dose of the mutant allele results in white tigers
You should so get a kitten. I can see a Cat Lamp doing you good!
I'd want a Hippo, because then if I wanted to get away from him I would jump in some water. Hippo's hate water.
A leopard of course :) Such fun pattern on their coats and seem like fun, like my cats, just bigger....hmmm....ok, maybe I'll stick with my cats. The otters would be much fun to play with. Angela
Actually, I'm not interested in zoo animals. A squirrel would probably be my pet of choice- mostly because once I have one under my dominion, I will be able to have that one spread my influence among the other squirrels. Then I will have a legion of squirrels at my beck and call, collecting loose change on the ground so that I no longer have to work, and perhaps also fetching me food.
It's like I said to my friend Mallory- "What if I had a million dollars!? Forget that- I want a million SQUIRRELS!" And then once I have the squirrels under my influence, the rabbits will no doubt follow and THAT is when things will seriously become awesome because then I can have the rabbits make subterranean lairs for me and my friends to throw sweet rave parties in. And I can have my crazy little mole-man empire underground with the Squirrels being my resource gatherers and spies of all the surface dwellers.
So yeah. Squirrels > Zoo animals.
Freakin' hilarious dude. You know what bait to start with: Little Debbie brownies and Pepsi.
Steve pass this along to Paula as I know she loves cats.
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John -- I was thinking of the same animal. If you got to the tigers first, then I'd pick a baboon so that Matt has someone to fling crap with when he comes to visit.
Steve -- I agree with Paula. So do Bit and Anna (Bear and Sasha disagreed).
David -- Disturbing in too many ways to list. You woundn't happen to be a fan of the character Janitor from "Scrubs" would you?
Joe.
Joe - I enjoy flinging poo at people. What can I say?
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