We're about to get our second non traditional pet and that got me wondering what others on CC have that might be different.
We have an iguana that my brother gave the kids a year ago. My brother took him in as a rescue project and once he was restored to health was looking for a home for him.
That same brother recently purchased an albino corn snake that he's going to give to my five year old. We live several hours from him so we have to wait till someone can either get up here or down there while it's warm enough for a reptile to travel.
So what does everyone else have?
i am never quite sure what people mean by "exotic or unusual", but my sister has ferrets. They are kinda unusual, a lot of people don't know alot about them, and they have such incredible personalities!
I have a rabbit, which I don't actually consider exotic or unusual; but at Cornell when we go for a vet appt he's classified as an exotic! Midnight is in my avatar- I was using up a roll of film a couple of years ago from my sisters wedding and decided just to snap pictures of the flowers and he jumped into frame for the perfect shot!
Rabbits make wonderful pets! A friend of mine is the head of a local rabbit rescue. If anyone would like more information on rabbits you can visit their website:
http://www.therabbitresource.org/
Growing up I had a raccoon. His name was snoopy. Hmmm... scorpions, goats, swans, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats, fish, crabs, etc...
I love animals.... but Snoopy holds a special place in my heart.
Okay, I have ferrets...seven at the moment. They are so much fun. Each has a different personality. All are extremely curious and playful. My son also has a pet rabbit. A very spoiled rabbit. Yes, they can be housebroken! He named her Brittany because she has long eyelashes..Um, okay.
Mine is a very spoiled bunny too! Just this week I bought him his own carpet . He has a cage, but isn't actually locked in. His cage has his litterbox, food, etc... but he's free running. I can tell he loves his new carpet because he hasn't left it since I finished cleaning/organizing his corner! It's so much fun to spoil the furbabies!
I've never heard of sugar gliders, but just googled them... they're so amazingly cute!!!
Sugar Gliders are sooo cute. We've always wondered if they make good pets. They look so fragile!
They are wonderful. If you get them as babies, and keep them in a bonding pouch, they will bond to you, and love being with you. We take ours everywhere- even to church 
We used to have 3 ball pythons. We would take them for 'walks' along the main drag of Virginia Beach when we lived there. Basically they would just curl around our necks or arms and 'hang out'.
I always loved the reactions we got from people when they would look and you could see if they were trying to figure out if they were real snakes. Then one of the snakes would move and they would freak.
I always loved the reactions we got from people when they would look and you could see if they were trying to figure out if they were real snakes. Then one of the snakes would move and they would freak.
Oh that would be funny to watch .... from a long, safe distance of course! 
We used to have 3 ball pythons. We would take them for 'walks' along the main drag of Virginia Beach when we lived there. Basically they would just curl around our necks or arms and 'hang out'.
I always loved the reactions we got from people when they would look and you could see if they were trying to figure out if they were real snakes. Then one of the snakes would move and they would freak.
That's so cool! I've always wanted a snake! I've settled for a small horse (my great dane...who is sitting in my lap looking at cakes with me.)
Growing up, we had so many weird animals--my ex-stepdad had a flair for the exotic. Anything unusal. We had 13 macaws (scarlets and blue and golds), 4 electus and 4 African Greys, and 1 sulfur-crested cockatoo, at one point, which I loved, and a fox squirrel that was half-blind and ran up his brown pants leg when it was a baby, so we kept it and named it Flip Wilson.. but the weirdest animals we had would have to be the 3 buffalo he bought for us. One for each of us. We took a field trip in 2nd grade to my house to see the buffalo. I didnt understand why I had to go to school just to come back to see the stupid buffalo LOL. We sold them after they got out of the pen and stood at the back door and wouldnt let us out. Looking back it was pretty funny, but at the time I was terrified!! We had about 40 texas longhorns at one point. I really wanted a giraffe but he couldnt get me one. HAHA geez, some people just have too much money.
As for now, we have a chihuahua and a cat. 
Nice and simple!
Growing up, we had so many weird animals--my ex-stepdad had a flair for the exotic. Anything unusal. We had 13 macaws (scarlets and blue and golds), 4 electus and 4 African Greys, and 1 sulfur-crested cockatoo, at one point, which I loved, and a fox squirrel that was half-blind and ran up his brown pants leg when it was a baby, so we kept it and named it Flip Wilson.. but the weirdest animals we had would have to be the 3 buffalo he bought for us. One for each of us. We took a field trip in 2nd grade to my house to see the buffalo. I didnt understand why I had to go to school just to come back to see the stupid buffalo LOL. We sold them after they got out of the pen and stood at the back door and wouldnt let us out. Looking back it was pretty funny, but at the time I was terrified!! We had about 40 texas longhorns at one point. I really wanted a giraffe but he couldnt get me one. HAHA geez, some people just have too much money.
As for now, we have a chihuahua and a cat.
Nice and simple!
That's quite a list. 
My kids had a similar reaction to buffalo this summer. The tribe up here keeps buffalo and the kids have seen them several times. My parents insisted on dragging my kids on a ride when we were visiting to go see the buffalo that are down by them and couldn't quite figure out why they weren't as impressed as my nephew had been. 
Sunny is so beautiful! I love his coloring!
At various times when I was a kid, we had a raccoon, a kangaroo rat, rabbits (including both dwarf and huge), a guinea pig, and many dogs and cats.
Before I was born, my parents had a pet skunk. He wasn't descented, but never sprayed -- until they gave him to my dad's boss, and the boss's neighbor's dogs went after him. Oooops!
We are a NO FUR family, although we tried ferrets and sugar gliders (and of course, hubby & kids were allergic).
We have 3 Blue & Gold Macaws, 1 Sun Conure, and a pair of dilute Fischer's lovebirds. At one time I bred lovebirds and had dozens, but no more.
I am thinking of checking out the local animal shelters to see if any large macaws need new homes after Hurricane Ike. I really want to add a Harlequin and a Scarlet to our flock.
Yes, it is REALLY LOUD in our household. LOL
~ Sherri
I'm just not a bird person!!
But in this lifetime, I've found myself surrounded by a menagerie that at one time or another has included some or all of the following (There were time's when I could count over 100 and still have heads to count)
4 Dogs
3 turtles
3 cats
1 dragon
14 snakes
3 ferrets
3 rabbits
RATS (most of the 100) some pets, some food
Mice
Frogs
Chickens
Chameleons
iguanas
Koi, Goldfish and guppies
I'm sure there were more I can't remember now!
I used to take one of the snakes to the grocery store with me... he can just hang out without moving much, so I'd take him along and run in to get milk and things... That look is just PRICELESS...
But, the absolute best experience I ever had was at a nursing home!!! We took our dog, a snake and a chameleon in to 'Visit' the residents... and a man that had a stroke bonded with the slow-moving chameleon... a woman in a wheelchair didn't want to give the snake back... aLOL.... she said that she had always wanted to touch one and it was like a dream come true... and she just didn't want to let go of a dream... AWWWW... But she did, eventually...
And The dog? Of course, he peed on the floor, like usual.
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