Exotic Pet Quotes

I went to a party when I was a student and they had a mynah bird up in the bedroom where people put their coats. I was completely captivated - I just sat there all night talking to it. The next day I passed a pet shop and they had a conure - it's a little parakeet - in the window. I bought it, not knowing what it was or how to look after it.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Right.” Sadie looked dazed. “You’ve got a monkey butler. Why not?

If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

A Polish man bought a zebra for a pet. What does he call the zebra? Spot!

My new Boyfriend! Mr. Marmoset Hard and Silent! #peopledontknowthings

I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that.

I could never date a guy with a pet snake.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

It's nice having a bear about the house.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.