I have always wanted an exotic pet of some kind. I know, I know! This is not a good idea. I blame it on a book I had when I was little called, If I Had a Lion by Liesel Moak Skorpen. It is about a little girl who has a lion pet. He follows her around, waits outside of school for her, eats her veggies when she doesn’t want to, and puts his big shaggy head on her bed at night if she has bad dreams. It is a very cute book and I still have it somewhere.
I want a lion or a tiger or a monkey or a sugar glider or a fenic fox or a sloth. I know this is not a good idea, especially with those larger animals who would eat me. I don’t want a real lion, but that child’s book version of a lion, like a person in a lion suit. And having heard Big A’s story about when his dad bought them a monkey and it wreaked havoc in their house, I know even a monkey would be problematic. Jeff Corwin says his fenic fox attacks visitors. Even Shreve over at The Daily Coyote says having a wild animal as a “pet” is tough and limits your life very much.
Ok, all of this is true. I am never going to get a monkey, or a chinchilla, or a sugar glider…BUT LOOK AT THE SLOTHS!
Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.
I WANTS ONE! My precious…
I do a two-toed sloth imitation, you know. I am quite famous for it in some circles.
Okay, maybe I will stick with the mini-pony. Look at it! It’s apartment sized!
Growing up deep in the country we learned that the smaller the horse the nastier the disposition. Ponies are evil. That mini-pony is most likely, and quite literally, the spawn of Satan. Stick with the sloth. And bring it to class!
First of all, you are a woman after my own heart. I too, have always wanted an exotic pet. I went through a fennec fox phase, and then a skunk phase and lately it’s been those super tiny pigs – adorable. Go with the sloth – they are very cute and you can probably just carry it around with you – how cool is that?