Shout About Pets

As pets, guinea pigs are… okay. They’re not going to do a lot, but if guinea pigs are your thing, go ahead, knock yourself out.

If guinea pigs are REALLY your thing, how about getting a capybara? It’s basically a guinea pig built to the wrong scale.

They have slightly webbed feet, no tail and just sort of skulk around. They’re big though. They can be eight or nine stones in weight. Fat buggers.

It’s hard to look at a capybara without thinking that it looks like some other animal, only rounded in some way – shorter legs, rounder body, stubby snout.

The idea of an exotic pet may be something that really appeals to you but you’ll need to take some time to consider whether that pet is really suitable for your lifestyle.  Many exotic pets are illegal in the UK because they pose potential threats to people or they are a protected species.  Here are some things to consider before you buy:

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After buying an emu egg as a novelty food item a woman living in Sussex surprisingly hatched an emu chick from it!

The chick, which Gillian Stone based in Bexhill, called Osborne, is being raised as a family pet.  When visiting the Isle of Wight Gillian found a farm that sold emu eggs.  She bought three of the large green eggs and stowed them in an incumbator which she kept in the kitchen.

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Now here’s an unusual pet for you – a twenty-two stone sheep who lives with a family in Cardiff.  His favourite pastime is chilling out in the lounge watching TV and nibbling on biscuits.
David Palmer, formerly a coach driver, rescued the sheep a few years ago when Nick Boing, as he known, was only a wee nipper.

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