unusual pets – Lee Duigon

Signing Off… With a Piglet

leeduigon(patty)August 1, 2025

To end the day’s blogging on a sweet note–

Is this piglet just about the cutest little character you’ve ever seen? Her mother rejected her, no one knows why, so the nice humans adopted her and she is now a house pig. She’s very affectionate, and has learned to ask the nice lady to open the door when she has to go outside to do her business. (The piglet, not the lady. Sorry if that sentence was confusing.)

God keeps giving us these teeny glimpses into Paradise. If only we would take Him up on what He offers us!

Your Pet… Possum?

leeduigon(patty)September 11, 2024

Well, why not? My wife had a pet possum in her home, once upon a time. The baby possums–who knew?–wound up in a silverware drawer when the mother wasn’t carrying them.

I brought a half-grown possum into my room, but my mother freaked out and that was the end of that.

Shout-out to Erlene: You never had an opossum, did you?

Your Pet… Zebras?

leeduigon(patty)March 2, 2022

When I was a very young child, there was nothing I wanted to much as to become a zebra when I grew up. I don’t know how I came by this notion, but it was certainly gone by the time I finished high school.

I guess when you run a wildlife sanctuary in Africa, you wind up with a lot of unusual pets. Damn, I don’t even know anybody who has a pet zebra. They’re not very common around these parts.

‘My Pet Tree Frog’ (2015)

leeduigon(patty)August 16, 2019

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Frogs don’t usually make good pets. But the grey tree frog is different.

My Pet Tree Frog

These little guys actually get tame, don’t mind if you handle them, and will take food from your fingers. Plus they change colors, and they sing. And there’s a lot to be said for the ability to cling to a windowpane without falling off.

Incredible Pet Critters

leeduigon(patty)December 29, 2017

Cats and dogs and birds, sure, they’re fun. Pet possum? Well, my wife once had one. And I smuggled a baby possum into my bedroom once, but my mother thought it was a large rat and that was the end of that. Even pet raccoons–it can be done.

But this video also contains footage of a guy with a pet crocodile. I’ve seen it, but I still don’t believe it. Although I did once know a man who had a large rattlesnake in his house…

Sanity Break: The Pangolin

leeduigon(patty)September 21, 2017

No,it’s not an animated pine cone. It’s an animal some of you have never heard of–the pangolin.

Hi, Mr. Nature here, with a look away from the news–basta, basta! as they say in Italy–and toward some more of God’s cool stuff. Pangolins live in Asia and Africa, eat insects, and are protected by an armor of keratin scales. Keratin is the stuff your hair and fingernails are made of. The pangolin is the only animal in the world that has such scales.

The pangolin in this video is a pet enjoying a nice mud bath. In the background you can hear the owner muttering about what a job it’s going to be to clean him. Ah, well, it’s one of the things we do for our pets. Because we love them, and then love us, and the Lord Our God loves both them and us.