Birds

What kind of swallow based after? I figured it was a Barn Swallow, because it had the large split tail. Also, they are kind of blueish blackish.  What kind of Parrot is Polly? I guessed an Amazon (Swallows and Amazons-ha ha) Parrot, because they are the green ones and they are kind of big. I saw a picture of one, and it seemed to match up to Polly. 

Yes Barn Swallow it is, though in England just called a Swallow.

As to Polly definitely green and probably an Amazon.

What kind of monkey was Gibber?

I asked on the TARSUS Outlaws page at the TARSUS Google group if any juniors had exotic pets

Like the Swallows, so far no answers. not even a claim of a white rat.

My cousin has a hedgehog. I'm guessing he's a  squirrel monkey.

Deirdre and Robin -

could I raise this in Outlaw? Deirdre - I could adapt your postings into a bit of an article, and ask if anyone has a (relevant) pet. Or better still, you could write something!

The most we ever had were budgies and hamsters - not quite a parrot or a rat!

Rob

My family were very keen on animals and had many diverse species as pets, I missed out on the more exotic ones being the youngest child by a long way in a family of four. They owned a macaw and a marmoset monkey both sad to say deceased by the time I came a long, My father owned a local paper and the macaw spent a lot of time in the printing works, the foreman of which delighted in teaching it some very bad words, unfortunately the macaw tended to pick up and apparently eat some of the lead type which finally poisoned him. 

My mother also bred white Persian cats and my father tropical fish, something he did till he died ,in fact he wrote several books on the subject.

When I was old enough I had white mice which I used to train to do tricks,the mice period finally ended when I bought a brown one that turned out to be pregnant, mice have an extremely large number of babies and mother drew the line at being over run with them as they do tend to smell a bit, I was bribed by my eldest brother to give them away to friends in exchange for a new fishing rod.

I went on later to have Hamsters, a grass snake, bantam pullets,several tortoises,goldfish and of course a dog, together with various frogs, newts and other things I picked up from my adventures outdoors.

My own children did not seem to have the same passion, my daughter did have a guinea pig, and used to care for the class white rabbit during holidays, it was fairly house trained and we used to let run around the living room for a bit, until we found it had a taste for electric cords, after several electrical appliances ceased to function for no apparent reason we found it had chewed the cords fortunately without electrocuting  itself, so  it was confined to barracks after that. of course we had the family dog and cat.

Sure go ahead!!! I WANT a parrot ( sun conure or amazon. Sun conures are yellow and blue and green. I met one at a pet store the other day, and it kind of liked me. $759.99 though. Not including cage), but I can't because they cost to much and apparently they smell bad. I'm sort of busy with school lately, but I'll see what I can pull off.  I've had mice (they died) and when I was really little my parents found a tortoise.  But then it ran away.

Previously Rob Boden wrote:

Deirdre and Robin -

could I raise this in Outlaw? Deirdre - I could adapt your postings into a bit of an article, and ask if anyone has a (relevant) pet. Or better still, you could write something!

The most we ever had were budgies and hamsters - not quite a parrot or a rat!

Rob

I would like a ferret, but they are illegal in California. I know a few people who have them anyways. When my mom was little, she had 48 gerbils (also illegal in California). 

We don';t have a pet who actually lives here, but we do have a lot of avian callers.  Rainbow Lorikeets come in gangs, and are quite destructive.  I cal them "Hell's Angels on wings".  Crimson Rosellas (crimson & blue) call in occasionally, as do Eastern Rosellas, which are just as colourful as the lorikeets but better behaved.  Then we had a pair of Pacific Black ducks (mostly brown, not black) who would come daily to be fed and splash around in a 'pool' that we set out for them.  They came for a fortnight and then stopped coming.  That was sad, because they were nice, and would follow us around.

David.

Previously Deirdre Iams-McGuire wrote:

Sure go ahead!!! I WANT a parrot ( sun conure or amazon. Sun conures are yellow and blue and green. I met one at a pet store the other day, and it kind of liked me. $759.99 though. Not including cage), but I can't because they cost to much and apparently they smell bad. I'm sort of busy with school lately, but I'll see what I can pull off.  I've had mice (they died) and when I was really little my parents found a tortoise.  But then it ran away.

 

Previously Rob Boden wrote:

Deirdre and Robin -

could I raise this in Outlaw? Deirdre - I could adapt your postings into a bit of an article, and ask if anyone has a (relevant) pet. Or better still, you could write something!

The most we ever had were budgies and hamsters - not quite a parrot or a rat!

Rob