Top Ten Unique Animals to Have As a Pet
Monkeys are haplorhine primates, a paraphyletic group generally possessing tails and consisting of approximately 260 known living species. If you're reading this, please don't get any exotic animals as pets. Not only is it a threat to humans (they may escape), but it is also harmful to the animals. They deserve to be in the GREAT OUTDOORS, not cramped up in your house.
I have a monkey at school
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey ...read more. Not really unique. But still amazing. I have kept many snakes as pets and at one point owned 24 (11 ball pythons, 7 kingsnakes, 4 milksnakes, 2 Burmese pythons) along with 3 ferrets, 2 chinchillas, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 2 sugar gliders, 8 leopard geckos, 2 desert iguanas, 2 bearded dragons and two green iguanas. Currently I have 5 snakes, 3 dogs, 8 lizards and 3 cats
YEs snakes are my favorite type of pet after dogs but the only thing I don't like is feeding it mice
Snakes can keep in captivity without no problems unlike exotic mammal pets
One of the most underrated and underappreciated pets out there.
A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. Yeah totally get one if you've did research!
It won't kill you like hippos, Jaguars, etc.,
Porcupines are rodentian mammals with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that protect against predators.
Frogs are a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura. My 9 year old cousin has one
They run away easily
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups ...read more. I have had 3 lizards in my life. They are the absolute cutest and changed me to be a better person. They are all still alive and happy today
I had two lizards once. In my home in Pennsylvania, it's too cold for lizards. They both died because they got too cold :(
Only for vegans
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb), it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world. Its distinctively ...read more. Don't attempt to have one as a pet it don't end pretty
Not a good idea
Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals in the clade Pinnipedia. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless seals, or true seals). There are 34 extant species of pinnipeds, and more than 50 extinct species have been described from fossils. While seals were historically thought to have descended from two ancestral lines, molecular evidence supports them as a monophyletic lineage (descended from one ancestral line). Pinnipeds belong to the order Carnivora; their closest living ...read more. This would be cool to have.
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult males are referred to as bulls. ...read more. Good thing I can kick beef off my diet.
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus.
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and the extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin). There are 40 extant species named as dolphins. ...read more. I always want a dolphin as a pet; they're amazing.
One of the best animals ever.
The sugar glider is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass. They are cute and they love to just hang out in your pocket aw I love it
Hamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 25 species, classified in six or seven genera. I mean they're like the 4th most popular pet but still great pets
Literally no-one has a hamster
Foxes are small to medium sized animals and belong to the Canidae family along with other animals such as jackals, wolves, and domestic dogs. There are 37 species of fox but only 12 are considered true Vulpes. A fox's prey is small mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, eggs, insects, worms, fish, crabs, mollusks, fruits, berries, vegetables, seeds, fungi and carrion. Some of the best known species of fox are the fennec fox, red fox, gray fox, arctic fox, and the swift fox. Foxes are considered one of the most adaptable animals because it can live on almost every continent. Foxes range from all different colors and habitats. Foxes can be a deep red, a light tan, or white. If you are lucky enough you ...read more. A carnivorous mammal of the dog family with a pointed muzzle and bushy tail, proverbial for its cunning.
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome. It is well adapted to living in cold environments, and is best known for its thick, warm fur that is also used as camouflage. It has a large and very fluffy tail. In the wild, most individuals do not live past their first year but some exceptional ones survive up to 11 years. Its body length ranges from 46 to 68 cm (18 to 27 in), with a generally rounded body shape to minimize the escape of body heat. ...read more. Super cute and cool
The common hippopotamus, or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus.These guys may seem ugly, but they really CAN protect against cancer.
Skunks are mammals known for their ability to spray a liquid with a strong odor. Different species of skunk vary in appearance from black-and-white to brown or cream colored, but all have warning coloration.
The axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, also known as the Mexican walking fish, is a neotenic salamander related to the tiger salamander. Although the axolotl is colloquially known as a "walking fish", it is not a fish, but an amphibian. The axolotl is only native to Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco in Mexico. Axolotls in the wild are mostly grassy brown or black, but in captivity, they can even glow in blue light. These exotic amphians are pretty much extinct in he wild, so with the right care it's a good deed to look after them.