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If so, pictures please. Pictures of common pets are welcome too. Bonus points for skunks.

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[-] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Got three tomato frogs. Funny little things, with a lot more personality than I expected.

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

My parents had a zebra when I was in my teens. Northern California but born on a zebra farm in Texas.

I never got within 10 feet of that jumped up donkey, but got to be woken up by its braying every single morning. Only my dad was able to interact with it. I think it was traumatized by the 33 hour trip from Texas to us, but you never know.

[-] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Tarantulas, some tiny as a fingernail, some larger than my palm.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh my god, it's adorable. So cute!

[-] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

They are the cutest!

[-] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago

We have an odd duck.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Snenk

Name: Bandit
Species: California Kingsnake
Age: 10
Length: 5'

Snenk

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I love snakes! So cute!

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Not all too uncommon, but they're a fun distraction from work.

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago
[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They look fun, are they loud?

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

They make a lot of sound, but I wouldn't call it loud. I have only hens, no roosters.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Strictly not pets, but I'm getting my 2nd of 3 pre-exposure rabies vaccinations this weekend so I can work with skunks and the other rabies vector species (bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons) next spring!

While I haven't been able to handle them, I have prepared their food. Out of all the baby animals formulas we have, skunk milk smells the best!

I joined up to work with the owls and other raptors, but all the animals we get are fascinating in their own ways.

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Wow.

I've been lucky enough to interact with a rescue skunk. It was basically a disinterested cat... sniffed my hand a bit then wandered off.

The rescue possum was quite a bit more nervous. Oddly much more so than the one I had to remove from my house (got in through a previously unseen hole under my kitchen sink).

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I've really enjoyed seeing how different individual animals' personalities can be.

One of the last skunk babies we had sprayed someone 4 times before we figured out it was getting freaked out by the orange gloves. Any of the other gloves and it was fine.

I haven't spent near as much hands on time with the oppossums as I had wanted, but the times I have had to grab them, they tend to act scary, but then not really do anything if their tough guy act didn't get me to leave.

I've got tons of pics of them. I think they're very adorable.

This is the last batch of joeys we incubated.

I grabbed this guy to move it to an outdoor enclosure.

This one is coming out after I dropped off breakfast.

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 3 points 16 hours ago

What's your experience with the vaccination so far? I've heard it can be pretty brutal in terms of side effects such as fever and more.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

It hasn't been bad so far. The way I'm getting it is an interdermal shot instead of intermuscular, so it's a shallow injection with a small needle. It feels like a bug bite, a minor skin bump, I didn't have any itching, but it hurts really bad if I forget it's there and scratch it by accident. The first injection is still visible, which I've never had from another shot, but otherwise I don't feel it, so I'm thinking it's not abnormal, but I'll ask tomorrow.

I was extremely tired the next day, but I have been sleeping like crap all year and I had to drive 6 hours round trip, so it's probably just that. The shots are very expensive, and the place I'm going is doing a clinic where we can use the same vial of vaccine for multiple people, so it's saving us all a ton of money.

Even with all the gas money, I'm still saving at least $500 on the shots. Plus I stopped to see a pair of nice waterfalls and listened to a whole Discworld audiobook on trip one. Tomorrow I think I'll hit up the state college's store where they sell the ice cream they make in their special ice cream program and maybe hit up the wildlife rescue out there if the rain is light.

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You make my day better, every day. Just wanted you to know that.

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I always love to hear it. It makes my day better to talk to you guys about owls and misc other animals too.

Owl of the Year Qualifier starts sometime next month, so be sure to come play along!

[-] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 11 points 1 day ago

Cats aren't exactly uncommon, but my little girl is hairless so I think she might count?

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

awwwww kitty

[-] lunatique@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Rejoice for you get to see vivivava in her true form

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago

I don't have photos but used to have two cockroaches that I thought were both female but whoops, eggs laid and hatched into way too many more roaches.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know if this would count as uncommon, but here are the guinea pigs,

Rose:

and Daisy:

[-] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Got a leopard gecko. Not that unusual but more so than a cat, which we also have.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

awwwww they're cute

[-] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
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