Who here has a "different " pet?

My roadrunner likes to dance and bathe in the ashes of the firepit.
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Must be like some sort of flea powder...
 
Not necessarily an unusual thing to have as a pet but an unusual circumstance to getting it, we used to have a ferret. My wife and I were moving out of an apartment and a buddy and I had just knelt down to pick up a couch when my buddy loudly said "What the hell was that?" and runs over to the recliner still in the room. The ferret had literally just walked in the front door. No idea how long he'd been on his own, one of the boys in the apartment complex said he thought it was another families that had moved away and just dumped the guy outside as they were leaving some months prior. He stayed with us for three or four years, attacked anything that seemed disagreeable to him, whether it was a living thing or not, but would just curl up and fall asleep on my wife from that first day.
Ended up getting rid of him because we'd had a kid that got into crawling age and didn't think it was fair to the ferret to have to be caged most of the time after that when he was used to just running around the house.
 
Bit if wildlife photography.........Cloudy but bright day with a nice firm sea breeze.........About 8 or 9, Whistling Kites, (up to 3/3 1/2ft wingspan), where cruising along the shore line doing a bit of fishing. lay on my back and took a bunch of pics, looking for that special one.........got it when this White-Bellied Sea-Eagle, (wing span up 6 or 7ft) decided to upset the apple cart and barged through them like the ball on a ten pin bowling ally

First pic is the original, second is cropped and enhanced.
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love the interaction between the 2 birds. Eye balling each other........Piss off noddy.

Could have broken the Kite's wing if the Kite hadn't pulled back.
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Here is another of the White-Bellied Sea-Eagle.........2 pics joined.

Been fishing and all i was catching was catfish after catfish, (knew there was a reason i don't usually go fishing,lol). The eagle was sitting in a tree watching me throw in a dead fish. I crouched behind my ute, set the camera on burst, (4 frames per second, older Didital 6.5 Mp camera), and focused on the fish. Of the 4 pics the eagle coming into view was the first, got her just as she was leaving, in the second frame............hand held.
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Here are the originals. First was a single shot, when the eagle came down the first time, saw me and pulled out a waited in the tree a while longer till the temptation was just to much. Then the 1 second 4 burst pics
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Here is another of the White-Bellied Sea-Eagle.........2 pics joined.

Been fishing and all i was catching was catfish after catfish, (knew there was a reason i don't usually go fishing,lol). The eagle was sitting in a tree watching me throw in a dead fish. I crouched behind my ute, set the camera on burst, (4 frames per second, older Didital 6.5 Mp camera), and focused on the fish. Of the 4 pics the eagle coming into view was the first, got her just as she was leaving, in the second frame............hand held.
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Here are the originals. First was a single shot, when the eagle came down the first time, saw me and pulled out a waited in the tree a while longer till the temptation was just to much. Then the 1 second 4 burst pics
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That’s really cool Doug!
 
Not pets and don't have any pictures but every so often we will find patches of feathers or long white fur in the back yard, so there is some activity going on.

Just remembered I had some low res pictures.
First one is of part of the Clean Up Crew that came out to take care of a possum that did not make it across the road, that's the white fur under the one:
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Picture was through a rain soaked window over 100 feet away and only got less than half the Crew!

This one is some guys trying to impress one lady, not sure if anyone got lucky!
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This was from about 250 feet or more away.
 
I have an uncle who used to live way out on the Aleutian Island of Unalaska, his wife was a nurse in the hospital that took care of the crab and fishing fleets. ( the same ones that are on the TV show Deadliest Catch ). My uncle told me that Bald eagles are as thick as pidgeons up there, they are almost considered a pest because they raid dumpsters and such.
Anyways my uncle liked to fish from the shore when the weather was nice and he told me how the eagles would just stroll up and take his fish. You weren’t allowed to chase them off because they are a protected species! :laugh2:
He just had to stand there and let them take his fish.
 
I'm curious. What does one feed a pet opossum? Can you housebreak or litter train them. Does she come when you call her? Does she roam the house or live in a cage.

I had kids, and they had pets. Some of them were a lot of trouble. My wife's dog left us in August. He left a big empty hole, so I understand getting attached to them.

Agreed Marty, all kids should be kept in a cage!
These days they are toooooo expensive and toooo gobby!
No respect!!
 
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