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HELP I seriously need help choosing a new pet, with a good explanation why.?

Posted on June 15, 2010 by admin| 16 Comments

I really want a new rodent I like Sugar Gliders (not too sure if I want to cater their food every night) I like chinchillas but head that they are very hard to bond with also that they live 20 some years (college in 4 years but I’m sure I could make do) Fancy Black Bear hamster not too smart do not form a strong bond more interested in other thing then than me Please do not tell me to get a guinea pig I for some odd reason just can’t stand them please don’t tell me to re-consider unless you have very strong reasoning. I like flying squirrels don’t know too much about them though other than that they have a very strong bond with their owners and feeding is quite easy Short-tailed opossums, hedgehog, duprasi, chipmunk, Japanese ear-tufted squirrel. As you can see I would really like an exotic I could handle a glider and their special care but I don’t want care to become a burden I can handle a Saltwater ecosystem so I can handle a rodent. I am open to just about anything so shoot! Thanx
Sorry about the punctuation in my question I had to delete it to make it all fit!
I am quite open to chinchillas.

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leaving ur pets behind u…..?

Posted on May 2, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

ive been thinking about getting a pet for about, geez, 6 months now. mostly in the area of ferrets(which i no i cant have but i still love em), chinchillas, and sugar gliders. but the problem is that none of my family and no one i no will want to take my pets when i leave for college(im still in highschool now). the college that i think im going to wont allow, like most colleges, pets on campus, in the dorm rooms. so i cant take them with me and i cant leave them behind if i ever get pets! do u think its right to the pet to send them off to another family? is there any shame in doing this? i rlly want to get one of the above and ive been researching but all of these animals will live longer than just thru highschool. should i still get chinchilla/sugar glider even tho i no theyre goign to have to move out when i also move out??

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Why is there no “Small animal”, “exotic pets” or ” pocket pets” options on this thing?!!!?

Posted on January 25, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

It would be so much easier to find the questions that I could be of service to answer if there was a link for “Small Animals” (I.E. Ferrets, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Sugar Gliders, and Chinchillas) “Exotics (i.e Foxes, wolves, birds of prey, larger reptiles etc…) and Pocket Pets (I.E. Hamsters, Gerbils, Mice, and Rats)

Does anyone else agree?
Just Curious

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Stray Kitten with lump over eye?

Posted on January 8, 2010 by admin| 18 Comments

Lats week I found a stray kitten in my yard. He’s probobly 9-12 weeks old. His left eye has green goop draining out of it and was matted shut when I found him. His eye is a little better now but last night above that eye I found a large lump. It is oozing just a little tiny bit. He doesnt act like its there and is eating, playing ect just like normal. Our shelter won’t take him from us because they say we live to far out of town(I don’t see why that matters, I will drive him there..) so we are trying to find him a home. We already have 4 cats, 3 dogs, 3 chinchillas, 2 sugar gliders, 1 bird, and a gheco so we are full right now. I can’t get him to a vet this week (no money). Does anyone know what this lump could be and if it is life threatening?
If the lump is still there on monday I will be able to take him to the vet then. the shelter I talked to is the only one within an hour from my house and it really isnt a nice place, they wont let many people adopt an animal from them and they never take in animals from certain people. i tried to adopt a dog from them once and they told me I couldnt because we own a non shedding dog so they said we are picky dog owners(nice reason right?). anyways.. he is still acting normal luckily, its definately not a tick. Its a large swollen lump about the size of a penny. I think it has something to do with the goopy eyes. I’ve seen lots of kettens with goopy eyes but never a lump though. I just hope he can wait until Monday for the vet. I’ve got an emergency vet number in case he gets worse over the weekend. I’m afraid its a warbol.. Thanks for all the advise so far!
todaythe lump popped. He looks a lot better, I’m not sure if its a good thing that it popped or not.. He has a gooy substance all over where the lump was but the skin isnt wounded or anything. It was like a giant zit or something. Last night it had swollen so much he could hardly open his eye. Today he’s loking good but would you recomend me trying to get the money to take him to the vet still or do you think he’s probobly fine now?

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