Out of Pod Experience

Ha ha, does your brother call that spider "Lackanookie"? That's a great name for any kind of crawly or slithery pet. I'd name my next one that, but eventually my kids would get old enough to understand the joke.

I used to have an African mongoose. Man, what a fun pet. Never had a ferret, but similar I guess. His favorite game was to be thrown across the room. He'd just roll across the floor and keep coming back for more. The only drawback is the things are continually hungry and always rooting around the premises for food. Once it grabbed my sister's rescued baby squirrel and hid behind the fridge crunching away on it. Pretty unpleasant for everybody, and Mom didn't like that much. Not long after that, it made off with an entire baked red snapper that had just been put on the dinner table. That's when I had to adopt it out to my friend.