A Pet
 

hermit crabs? a turtle? something that stays in an aquarium is probbaly your best bet. i know some people think they're cute too (hermits crabs can but fun i guess)

If you like birds, "Budgie" parakeets are cheap, cute, and pretty easy to take care of. They usually run anything from 10-25$.

I have an aquatic turtle, and he's pretty easy to take care of. I keep him in a 10-gallon tank (he's still pretty small) filled with water. If you get an aquatic turtle, just make sure you have a good filter and a UV lamp, and a place for him to get out of the water and bask in the lamp. Actually any turtle will need the UV lamp, it keeps them healthy and happy. My turtle is SO cute, and he actually has a personality... he lets you know when he wants food by looking up at you and splashing in the water by waving his front legs :)

How about a prairie dog? :D

j/k!

A white feeder mouse; at least I know that's what I want.

Get a box turtle!!

They're cheap too....at this time of the year you can find them on the roads :)


*found one yesterday and named it Chucky*

How adorable!! :)

Whatever you do DO NOT get a hamster,

they look cute, are cute actually...but smell to all high hell
unless you clean the cage all the time,
they sleep when you are awake, and when you are asleep they are awake running on thier little wheel

i just got a kitten, and i cant keep it at my dorm, so i sweet talked my boyfriend into letting me keep her at his apartment...:) YAY! so excited cause he is so cute and adorable

boyfriends getting a lil jealous though cause when i go over i play with the kitty for an hour before he gets any attention...LOL :D

LOL that's so funny you mention that! When I first got Alpha (my first betta) I spoiled him rotten! He had the cutest tank, decorations, etc. and when the got a tiny rip in his fins I rushed to PetCo to buy him medicine. I would even play a little game with Alpha by putting a pencil up to his tank so he could see it and he would chase it when I moved it around. my boyfriend would always say things like I paid more attention to my fish than him, but he got over it :)

I think when I go home this weekend for the 4th, I'm going to get a fire-bellied newt. They're mainly aquatic, but do need a place to get out of the water. Most people probably think they're gross and slimy, but you can take them out and they'll crawl around, just make sure to have barricades up cause they're fast. I'd get a fish but you can't take them out of their tank and plus my roommates betta just commited suicide a couple of weeks ago by jumping out of his tank. We think our ghost, Cameron, in our sorority house made him do it, lol.

I need suggestions for a name for my newt. Any good ones?

court

Get a sugar glider or some other "pocket pet" (you know, little tiny animals). I don't know how difficult they are to take care of, but if you really want a pet, well, they're cute!

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Something cheap?

-Rudey
--I hear dinosis is a $2 something or other.

Maybe a ferret? I hear they make pretty good pets.

I would not get any exotic type of animal like sugar gliders, iguanas, ferrets, hamsters, gerbils unless you research how to take care of them-I see so many sick exotics b/c they are on the wrong diet (like the lettuce diet-HELLO lettuce is not a nutrional meal). Ferrets are cancer factories unfortunately.

TURTLE POWER!!! I had a turtle once. They're cute.

Oooh, I really want to get a starfish!!! Does anyone know where I could get one?:D :cool:

Oh cool, that's what I have! Are they the same sex? Remember that they do get fairly large though (not enormous or anything) so if you have several of them you'll need a large tank for them :)

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How about getting a salt water aquarium? They look really cool, can be a hobby and don't make any noise. Though they aren't really cheap as far as getting them how you want them, they can be a good hobby. I've had a salt water aquarium now for 3 yrs. It's a 155 gallon aquarium. I didn't start off with everything either. First I bought the aquarium, crushed coral/coquina and the stuff to clean the thing. It's huge. Eventually I got a lot of live coral, exotic fish, two small Moray eels, ameboeas, star fish and most recently a tiny lobster. It's addictive. Salty Aquariums are a lot to maintain, but their satisfaction is more of a pay off. I have someone to come and clean mine. I don't have the time to clean it myself. I think they look really cool. Have you ever been to something like a walk through aquarium? Some place that actually makes you feel as though you're in the ocean when peering into it? Thats the feeling I get everytime I look into mine. I also use High voltage lighting inorder to give the water that mid-day tropical sun look, kind of like the way the water looks at noon time in places like the Carribean. At night I have black lights that make the whole aquarium look as though it's glowing. It's really cool when you are having a party.

It's just a suggestion. If you're interested in them, look through your telefon book and search for aquariums. Go to the shop and see what I'm talking about. You might find it very fascinating.

How about a chinchilla? I recently visited some friends of mine who have one (who is adorable :) ) and I'm toying with the idea of getting one myself. They stay in a cage, but you can take them out to cuddle them and let them run around if you want. You don't need to wash them - they take dust baths. They are also non-allergenic - my husband is highly allergic to cats and dogs, but didn't react at all to the chinchilla.

is a red ear slider a fish?

The easiest way to determine sex is to look at their red markings (the "ears"). Males have more prominent red markings there, while females have barely visible markings. Mine is a male named Snoopy :)

As for the salmonella, yes it can be an issue but if you always wash your hands thoroughly after handling the turtles, then you should never have a problem!

A red-eared slider is an aquatic turtle :)

my roommate has a ferret
they stink like crazy
plus they don't like to be caged all of the time

and chinchilla likes to sleep during the day
and play all night long
plus, you can't put them near water or they'll die


why don't you try the electronic pets that are on a key chain

Near water? I know you can't put them in water because their fur gets so waterlogged and heavy that they can't move - hence the dust baths. But they have to have water to drink... (from a bottle obviously)

I wonder what happens to a chinchilla caught outside in a rain storm...

I had a pet rat. She was lab rat from a psychology course I took. I adopted after the semester (because Iif I didn't they were going to feed her to the birds of prey). She was so sweet, and lots of fun to play with.

They don't smell. They only problem is that they are nocturnal. So she made one hell of a racket when I was trying to sleep. But I eventually got used to hit, so it didn't bother me anymore.

They make great pets. I would get another.

Are they an endangered species?