I have created a smattering of the ever growing gold small pet pendants. What I mean is that there seem to be more small pets every year. A few years ago I’d never heard of people keeping small marsupial sugar gliders as pets. Now there are websites devoted to sugar glider aficionados. And I understand that for a while prairie dogs were being kept as pets. I don’t know if that’s still the case.
There are a lot of small mammals in the world, and I imagine a certain number of them make acceptable pets (the rest are very likely to be found in the Magic Zoo's gold animal pendants collection). I do know that in other countries mongooses are sometimes domesticated, possibly to protect the family against poisonous snakes. For the most part small pet mammals earn their keep just by being cute, not warding off poisonous snakes.
I don’t think this counts, but a number of years ago I was living in an apartment complex where one of the tenants kept a raccoon as a pet! This raccoon was fat and destructive, the largest raccoon I have ever seen and never should have been thought of as something to domesticate. However, the fellow who had him was quite fond of him.
I’ll probably stick to making small gold pet pendants of the small pets that are more acceptably kept as pets. But like I said, that list does seem to keep growing as more critters cross over from my wildlife gold pendant page to this one! |
