SilverProteus wrote:
I heard they make good pets. I'm particularly fond of rodents - I had at one point more than 50 hamsters, more than 10 cavies, 4 gerbils and two rabbits all at the same time, living in an apartment, believe it or not! I also would take tarantulas and scorpions home, as I like them as well. Rats, however, my mother doesn't like and is opposed to me having one. She confuses them all with sewer rats.
Wow - that's quite a collection! I had a guinea pig once, too, a black one that my brothers called 'Roach.' I always thought it was funny how it would squeak whenever somebody opened the refrigerator - it knew we had lettuce and carrots in there. I'd have a tarantula, too (they are very pretty) but my husband is scared to death of spiders and he'd be afraid it would get out. I have a few snakes (love reptiles) and every once in a while, one might get out and he yells at me to go catch it. Your mother sounds like mine - she was raised in a large city where they had wharf rats (large as a small dog, some of them) and to this day they terrify her.
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