Cool animal for a college apartment?

[A. gigas]

As much as I'd love to have a FRT, we really don't have the space or money to spend on an appropriately sized enclosure for one.

Forget the enclosure, the turtle itself is expensive enough....

 

[rudukai13]

Exactly.

 

[ceeej31]

Wow, I can't believe you guys ruled out a Cat! You wanna know what message it sends here we go. But first! You want an independent but can be social animal that can care for itself if using the example above of you crashed on your neighbors couch after a few bottles of ... errr ...hours of studying.

Now the message: Picture the scenario, you're sitting there on your couch playing Halo 13 or what ever is out now, and you hear yelling from outside. Girl from 3B is in the process of breaking up with her meat head boyfriend that she met at the bar after he saved her from some Poly Sci/Philosophy dual major trying to talk to her about the meaning of love and its symbolic relationship to the fluctuations in the yen and euro.

So, she's breaking up with meat head you hear this and after the motorcycle peels out of the parking lot you open the door and say... is everything ok out here? Just then Fluffy McPabstwesier your loyal kitten strolls outside the door and caresses her leg. She picks him up, saying everything is fine, and offers to carry "Pabst" back into your apartment for you. She sees you playing 360 and sees your Kinect, but you catch her checking it out. "Wanna play some soccer to get any frustration out?"

3 hours later, you both collapse from exhaustion of playing Kinectamals on the couch when Pabst jumps up in her lap for some subtle lovin'. You spend the next 4 hours talking about life and love watching USA's Double Take of Titanic when you offer to make her some dinner if she's hungry. Some gourmet ramen (Ramen with diced tomato, steeped ham and oregano and basil) and a few real Pabst's later, and she's no longer petting Pabsts, but ... well you get the picture.

Several years later, you and 3B are standing in your newly furnished nursery after long nights of painting and putting up borders and baby proofing everying when Pabsts jumps up into the crib and curls up for a nap...

Your Pregger 3B gal, looks at you and says.... "You only got that cat to impress women ... didn't you."

Now, tell me you don't want a cat!

So in other words, if you get a cat you will end up getting a girl pregnant.

 

[snakeguy101]

you know, I have had girls give me their numbers when they found out I had reptiles. I actually had a girl make her mom give me her number at a reptile show. I think you might be surprised how many women are into lizards and turtles, and if you are into freakier girls (*cough Chloe *cough) a snake may attract some.

The only women that I know that will not visit my apartment because of the animals inside are the ones that I can't imagine putting out anyways (very religious/ married/ fugly/ etc). I just don't think you should limit yourself to no reptiles...

 

[bobblehead27]

Wow, I can't believe you guys ruled out a Cat! You wanna know what message it sends here we go. But first! You want an independent but can be social animal that can care for itself if using the example above of you crashed on your neighbors couch after a few bottles of ... errr ...hours of studying.

Now the message: Picture the scenario, you're sitting there on your couch playing Halo 13 or what ever is out now, and you hear yelling from outside. Girl from 3B is in the process of breaking up with her meat head boyfriend that she met at the bar after he saved her from some Poly Sci/Philosophy dual major trying to talk to her about the meaning of love and its symbolic relationship to the fluctuations in the yen and euro.

So, she's breaking up with meat head you hear this and after the motorcycle peels out of the parking lot you open the door and say... is everything ok out here? Just then Fluffy McPabstwesier your loyal kitten strolls outside the door and caresses her leg. She picks him up, saying everything is fine, and offers to carry "Pabst" back into your apartment for you. She sees you playing 360 and sees your Kinect, but you catch her checking it out. "Wanna play some soccer to get any frustration out?"

3 hours later, you both collapse from exhaustion of playing Kinectamals on the couch when Pabst jumps up in her lap for some subtle lovin'. You spend the next 4 hours talking about life and love watching USA's Double Take of Titanic when you offer to make her some dinner if she's hungry. Some gourmet ramen (Ramen with diced tomato, steeped ham and oregano and basil) and a few real Pabst's later, and she's no longer petting Pabsts, but ... well you get the picture.

Several years later, you and 3B are standing in your newly furnished nursery after long nights of painting and putting up borders and baby proofing everying when Pabsts jumps up into the crib and curls up for a nap...

Your Pregger 3B gal, looks at you and says.... "You only got that cat to impress women ... didn't you."

Now, tell me you don't want a cat!

Yeah, cuz this is definitely what happens to anyone that ever gets a cat...

 

[rudukai13]

All good points. I think I am strongly considering a crested gecko. I think my brother would find it acceptable and the possibility for creating a natural viv for it would add to the show quality of the animal.

 

[crayfishkeeper]

Geckos are sick better then my sugestion of a crayfish but you should at least look at the blue orange or white ones some of them are stunning, they look real nice in some tanks. I think every one egnored it with thinking of it way easier then a gecko and some times just as colorful, look it up come on.

 

[methos75]

you know, I have had girls give me their numbers when they found out I had reptiles. I actually had a girl make her mom give me her number at a reptile show. I think you might be surprised how many women are into lizards and turtles, and if you are into freakier girls (*cough Chloe *cough) a snake may attract some.

The only women that I know that will not visit my apartment because of the animals inside are the ones that I can't imagine putting out anyways (very religious/ married/ fugly/ etc). I just don't think you should limit yourself to no reptiles...

My thought exactly, the Girls not into Reptiles are the type no self-respecting College guy would want.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

A quick question for those who keep crested geckos in naturalistic vivs, is there any kind of offensive smell that comes from the substrate or anything? That's the one thing that my brother and I are both most concerned about - making sure our apartment doesn't stink.

No, the substrate doesn't stink. I use Eco Earth which is ground up coconut shells/fiber.

 

[knifegill]

Some odd posts here. It's college. OP wants many girls, not just that one girl who might like lizards. Quantity, people. Quantity.