Pets your parents would never let you have?

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I told my mother I would like to have a rat, and she said no.I got the same answer when I asked her if I could have a snake.

What about you?

My councilor offered to get me a baby alligator (he used to have one), but my parents were pretty adamantly against that...

What happens when it grows up?

Same thing with me. I was allowed to have mice but not a Rat which is what I really wanted. My brother wanted snakes but wasn't allowed though he could have lizards.

Rats look so big cute and fluffy.

Ferret, I always wanted one, like a viscious mouse with fangs.

Id like to own a rat. :O)

It's a shame parents are so predjudice against rats. They make awesome pets. They are far more intelligent and friendlier than mice, hampsters, or even rabbits, which many parents find more acceptable. I had a couple growing up. One of them I was able to train not to pee on me when I held him. I did this by putting him away immediatly without a treat if he peed. If he didn't I gave him a treat when I put him away. I wouldn't hold him for very long periods of time so this would set in, and to be fair to him. It worked much faster than I expected. He even began associating going back into his cage with getting a treat, so he eventually started looking for ways to get back into his cage by himself. He would crawl all the way from the other side of the room, climb up my dresser, climb up to the second story of his cage where the door was left open, crawl inside and turn and wait expantantly for his reward with his little pink nose twinkling at me.

Snakes. Rabbits, any small furry animal really, because my mom is very allergic, but somehow i got away with guinea pigs...

Guinea pigs make me sneeze at itch.

My parents won't let me keep a Gaboon Viper.

I had rats, mice, guinea pigs, a bird, rabbits, hamsters, fish, gerbils, Madagascan Hissing Cockroaches, cockchafer beatles, stick insects, etc but my mum drew the line at a Mexican Red Knee Tarantula :p

I want a dragon... my parents say that I can have one if I can find it... any ideas on where to look?

A cat.

My father hated cats.

I was a cat "magnet" from the time I was 4...my mother finally smuggled home a half-starved stray when I was in my teens...I don't think my dad talked to us for a week, but he eventually warmed up.

LOL

One of these?



Or one of these?



Have you tired an exotic pet store?

My mother sometimes associates them with sewer rats, that's why she doesn't let me have any.

I've had rabbits, hamsters, gerbils and cavies at the same time.

I tried to bring home a spider but tht didn't work out too well.

My parents didn't alllow us to have any pets. Ok sorry me any pets, my siblings got cats. My mom had dogs but that was it. I always wanted one of my own but no such luck, not even a hamster.

Now I have dogs, a bearded dragon (i can't remember who asked sorry!! ! but you should be able to get them at any pet store and they are really easy to care for) and I'm thinking of getting a snake.

When am was eighteen,am decided to go to pet shop to get rats,parents hated rats,so sister took am to the pet shop to get the rats,they got back,and saw them and the cage,dad wanted control over them and wanted them gone just for control,mum wanted them gone because she hated the tails,but when they had stopped shouting to each other,and each day past,it brought interest in them,dad eventually started to hold them and watch them,mum stopped hating them and was able to stroke their tails.

it takes time to get people to stop hating rats,rats are one of the worst for being accepted anywhere [whether it's at family home,residential home,group home,appartment wherever-yet a lot of them will accept hamsters] because of the stereotypes,people blame rats for the plague,when it was the fleas that spread it,people think pet rats have just come out of the sewers,and they think the tails are bad.
If can take own mum every day to a pet shop/sanctuary/somewhere with fancy rats,to look at the rats,and hold or stroke them if allow it she may eventually allow it.
Save up for a good cage,if she is starting to like the idea,one like the Furret XL,or if have lots of space,the Superpet Ferret Kingdom,am bought one for last boys [most are still alive and looked after in it by another Autist],can have two groups of rats in that one by blocking off the middle,and put in corner shelves,the shelves that come with it are crap.