Pets

When I was a child, our family had a great variety of small pets, and of them all, I think rats were by far the best.

The types of animal we had included:

Rats
Friendly (even in the daytime) and intelligent
Chihuahuas
A crazily brave dog, will attack things many times its size!
Cats
Arabian spiny mice
Cute, and capable of eating aluminium (e.g. water bottle tubes)
Wood mice
Zoom around their cage with such momentum that they can loop the loop, with a thumping noise as they do so
Gerbils
Hamsters
Tend to be savagely grumpy when woken during the day
Tortoises
Great fun, but need to hibernate over the winter
Turtles
Toads (captured from the wild)
Slow worms
Technically a lizard, but looks much more like a small snake
Grass snakes
Rabbits
Guinea pigs
Chinchillas
A python
Neither friendly nor unfriendly; needs both hands to handle it safely (so it can't wrap itself round part of you; if a python doesn't want to move, it doesn't move)
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John C. G. Sturdy
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