Yes, they like to ride around on your shoulder.
This is the first time since I was six years old or so that we haven’t had any pets to share our life.
Looking back on it: cats, dog, turtle (we used to take him on vacation with us)… a wide assortment of lizards large and small (for 17 years I had my iguana: he thought he was a mammal)… rats, mice, various fish… Did I miss anybody?
Now our health is shot and we can’t take care of pets. How I miss them! Even the aquarium with crickets, merrily chirping away on New Year’s Day, with the snow coming down outside.
Maybe someday we can return to normalcy.