Already got -

* Cat
* Tropical fish

Was thinking of -

* hamster in a huge rota stack system
* Lizard of some kind

Cant have spider or snake due to the misses hating them

so any suggestions people

 

Hamster is much less hassle....does your misses like lizards? If not you may be best with a hamster anyway

 

Rats are meant to be good pets, can be trained etc.

This is what ive heard, ive not had one myself

 

Nope a rat i no good

 

Do you have any pets then??

 

None that last very bloody long! Must be my lack of feeding them/shutting them indoors...

 

Ive got a bearded dragon lizard, love him, so id defo recommend a lizard of some kind

 

any pics mate please

 

havnt got any recent ones bud, ill take some now and stick them up

 

gerbils are better than hamsters, hamsters bite i had 2 male gerbils had them for 3 and a half years never bit me once!

 

Murdering bee-atch!!

 

Don't! When I was 6 I was convinced the fact that I used to pick my hamster Emma William Tat (yes, that was what I called it as we didn't know whether it was a girl or a boy and mum wanted to call it after her old hamster, tat ) up too much meant that it got cancer...and that's why we had to have it put down....I still feel bad! I even let it be buried in my coca cola cooler bag

 

Are you as gullible now as you were back then??

 

Ask my talking dog, Mildred Edward Lucky

Thankfully not as bad as I was at 6...that hamster hardened me to the fickleness of the world!

Anyway...dragging down somebody's thread here

 

 

How cool,

why thing that im curious about, and that is how/what do they feel like to touch ?

 

Hard and dry i think is the best way to explain how the feel touch to mate . tbh, our lass, a couple of her mates, and a couple of mine wont go near him, they dont like the look/feel of him. but he's soft, my kids love him, there always looking in his tanks and getting him out, very interesting/different animals mate

 

was really expensove to buy and all the equipment ?

 

i dont remember exactally mate, but it was around Ł300-Ł350 all in, that was the dragon, the vivarium, his wash bowl, water and food bowls, and the wood etc thats in there for him to climb on. after that you just have to replace the bulbs when they blow, and buy live food. i buy mine a tub of meal worms and a tub of locust a week.

 

Brilliant news

well going to look into this some more , but deffo like these now

 

chinchillas

i have 2

matt

 

I have heard these make great pets and if I didn't have a dog I'd certainly seriously consider one.

 

the misses is slowly coming around to the idea of a lizard

 

aint that an iguana?

 

go for a bearded dragon, they're great as pets.
nice dragon fiddy.
heres a couple of mine, he's still only a baby, 7 months and 13inch.

 

Yep, i've always had pet rats, they can be so well trained, mine was even litter trained!!!

She used to come out everyday for a hour and just roam about, then come back to me when she was ready to go back in her cage.

i have some pics some where if your interested?...

on the flip side tho they dont live long

 

we are more keen on the lizard idea , thank you

 

Bearded Dragons are great! I used to have two called bert and ernie! I would put pics up but cant access photobucket at work! They are really friendly too!

I also used to have an iguana... they are SO esy to look after, but obviously you'd need a bigger vivarium for them, i used to let mine wander round the house for a few hours a day, and she was potty trained! I used to half fill the bath up with warm water, and she'd go in there every day or every other day, have a swim around, then poo, then come out!!! AND she only ever ate veg!

 

cool

I want a bearded dragon

 

Me brothers mate had an lizard or something cant remember what it was but it was huge, he bought it a black leather jacket with crome buttons it was wicked he used to go for a walk up town in the summer with it on his shoulder it was really tame too!! people used to love it even the women used to come upto him and touch it

 

you sure that was a lizard buddy???

 

ferrets are good pets

 

we've got 7 guinea pigs... 1 netherland dwarf rabbit... tropical fish... and an asian water dragon

saying as you're interested in going down the lizard route here's some pigs of my Asian Water Dragon, it's only young at the moment so not possible to determine the sex, hence why i keep saying it.











Slightly more expensive to set up than a bearded dragon vivarium, and the vivarium will need to be a fair bit larger too... an adult male will reach around 2.5-3ft nose to tail, and a female around 2-2.5ft they're also arboreal meaning they live in tree's, so they need plenty of height to be able to climb around.

The photo below is my vivarium, its only small as it has been split into two smaller enclosures, as a juvenile dragon would be stressed if released into the full size enclosure too early, once it grows a little more i will remove the partition and all it the full space available.



below a video clip of when we just got it home... aged 7 weeks


and another video of it eating a waxworm

 

Get a chicken

 

have you considered having a child? when they get older they can do useful things like washing your car and doing an oil and filter service for their pocket money.