Peculiar Pets
Peculiar Pets
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- Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa relax at their home in Summit, New Jersey April 7, 2012. Cocoa is a 3-year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with Cyrus in Summit, New Jersey. They frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the city. Fakroddin has raised Cocoa since she was 2 months old and treats her like a human. He says that Cocoa can’t sleep at night unless she has him in her sight. “Cocoa doesn’t even know she is a goat and you see that in her.”. Allison Joyce
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- A three-year old llama ‘Socke’ lies in a dining room in the western town of Muelheim January 14, 2009. ‘Socke’ lives in the house of her owner Nicole Doepper since its birth, when it was injured by other animals and had a leg amputated. The district veterinary office of Muelheim announced on Thursday to search an adequate animal husbandry for the llama.. Ina Fassbender
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- Peruvian surfer Pianezzi rides wave with his alpaca Pisco at San Bartolo beach in Lima. Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca.. Pilar Olivares
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- Three-year-old Cambodian boy Oeun Sambat hugs his best friend, a four-metre (13.1 feet) long female python named Chamreun or ‘Lucky’ in the village of Sit Tbow on May 18, 2003. Superstitious villagers in the impoverished southeast Asian nation are flocking to see the boy, who they believe has supernatural powers and was probably the son of a dragon in a former life.. Chor Sokunthea
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- Animal trainer Santisak Dulapitak, 53, trains his iguana to pose in a chair at his home in the outskirts of Bangkok September 10, 2009. Santisak has been training his animals to appear in advertisements and movies for more than two decades.. Sukree Sukplang
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- wo lion cubs play on top of furniture in a domestic house in Kharkov some 450 km (279.4 miles) northeast of Kiev December 15, 2005. The three-months old lions live in the house of Tatyana Efremova, a veterinarian in Kharkov, who also keeps a number of other exotic animals.. Gleb Garanich
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- Julian, a pet Red Howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus), uses the toilet in La Pintada, Antioquia province, Colombia. Albeiro Lopera
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- Christophe Lutz walks Marcel, a 30 month-old pig-wild boar crossbreed in the small village of Kolbsheim near Strasbourg, August 10, 2012. Marcel, an offspring of a sow and a wild boar, was raised by Christophe and his wife Chloe when he was 3 months-old, and neglected by its mother.. Vincent Kessler
