weirdest pet acquisition

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crayfishguy

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what is the weirdest way you have acquired a pet? Mine happened today as i was trying to unhook a bass, which then proceeded to regurgitate on me. i looked down at the pile of shad, and i saw a little head poking out, after i pulled away the crap from around him, i uncovered a tiny red eared slider. He is now mine, and his name is Reginald M. Ferguson the 23rd, or reggie
 
crayfishguy said:
what is the weirdest way you have acquired a pet? Mine happened today as i was trying to unhook a bass, which then proceeded to regurgitate on me. i looked down at the pile of shad, and i saw a little head poking out, after i pulled away the crap from around him, i uncovered a tiny red eared slider. He is now mine, and his name is Reginald M. Ferguson the 23rd, or reggie
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That's pretty amazing!

I was in Tampa, Florida this summer on Honeymoon Island, and I was putting shells in my bag, when this little Green Emerald Crab was in one of them. It was cute, and I still have him, almost a year later.
 
My grandpa had a place on the rive and he sent me down to clean the beach one day. I picked up a white thing that I thought was something like a plastic film that you pull off containers... kinda like yoplait lids but not foil. When I picked it up it started moving... turned out to be a baby soft shell turtle that had gotten stuck on his back in the sand. Took him home and plopped him in a tank.

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Cool save. Back in the 80s, I caught a female bat ray that aborted her pregnancy when I hauled her up on the pier. 2 were stillborn and 2 survived that I put in my SW pond. One was nearly white (underdeveloped) and the other was dark gray. The white one died less than 24 hours later. The other grew to 3 1/2 ft wingspan before I had to give him away when I received orders that took me across country.
 
Not as dramatic as the other but, back in the 70s, a group of us spent nearly the whole summer camping in an old army 4 room tent on the Mediterranean Sea in Marseille, France. We collected a bunch of seashells to ship back. On one of the last shell collecting trips, we placed all of the shells in a bucket of salt water to clean them up. While the shells were soaking, we saw a little blob poke up over the rim of the bucket. Turned out to be a tiny (less than an inch) baby mediterranean octopus. Couldn't keep it but, it was cool to watch for a couple of days in a 5 gal canning jar we got at the local open market before releasing it into a nearby tide pool.
 
Obviously as a member of this forum, I'm a dedicated an obsessed fish keeper, but I have kids as well. Occasionally when I take them to the local shop with me for supplies or to browse the latest livestock, they see something they gotta have. I've gone in for pellet food or filter media and come home with birds, hampsters, and just last month I became a first time reptile owner with a baby bearded dragon. I swear between the 9 fishtanks, 2 parakeets, several rodents, lizard, 4 dogs and a cat, one more animal and ill charge admission.


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MidWestMike said:
Obviously as a member of this forum, I'm a dedicated an obsessed fish keeper, but I have kids as well. Occasionally when I take them to the local shop with me for supplies or to browse the latest livestock, they see something they gotta have. I've gone in for pellet food or filter media and come home with birds, hampsters, and just last month I became a first time reptile owner with a baby bearded dragon. I swear between the 9 fishtanks, 2 parakeets, several rodents, lizard, 4 dogs and a cat, one more animal and ill charge admission.


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you are now one of us muahahahahahaha
 
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