A wolf probably, but it would have to be a pup so I can train it.

Probably some smurfs.

I would throw them at people and proclaim "EAT MY CAZADORES MOTHER [censored]*****!" "that doesn't rhyme, and whats a caza- "CAZADORE!" " ahh my face.....me fa.......*death noise*

I'm not too sure... I've seen a lot of people talk about how cruel it would be to remove them from their natural habitat, and I agree. Though where I live has big fields hidden behind trees, so I guess that if I wanted a tiger, it would be able to live a relatively normal life. Lots of deer to eat, and big fields to prowl... Though the damage to the local ecosystem and the fact that it would still remain quite feral seem to make my thoughts look ridiculous... And it could attack my existing pets... Hmm...

I've always loved frogs. I know you can buy certain types of exotic frog, but i think it's kinda cruel if you don't have all the equipment and knowledge to look after them properly. But yeah, I'd love a pet frog

There's heaps of them all around my house.

Not the cane toad I hope?

Elephant meet my dog!

My house always has frogs around during the non-winter seasons. There's one that always is making mating calls, too. My dog's, apparently, being teased by a beaver. Beavers normally just stay around the creek and take sticks from our stick pile, but this one has been getting brave and hangs out in the backyard. I've seen it right on the porch before. My mom's seen one on a diving board when our pool had one.

I see a frog/toad occasionally during the spring/summer. I also used to see a lot of small snakes around my house a couple years ago, though I haven't seen any nowadays. :/

Also living in Canada being surrounded by trees attracts deer of both genders and moose. I can also hear coyotes howling sometimes during the night. And then there are porcupines settling in around my house.

This thread involves exotic pets. Not dogs or foxes. Exotic pets belong to the nature because they almost invariably experience 1) very high mortality rates 2) restriction of living space and 3) mistreatment when taken to human custody. I recall that something like 70% of parrots imported from Central America to Europe die during transit. Another example is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Loris, and in fact any D'AWW-inducing exotic animal. People take them because they have money, and then put them in a cage or have them wander around in their small human apartments and usually also reverse their daily rhythms (keep nocturnal animals awake during daytime), and have absolutely no idea of how to treat such an animal properly. To the gullible people of this world, every animal is just a cat in a different coat.

Exotic pets should be an oxymoron. But it's not because people are shallow fools who think it's their right to destroy an animal's life just because it looks funny. Cats and dogs may be suited for pet, but monkeys, large birds (if kept in cage as they tend to be) and such are not.

I don't think the problem is that exotic animals can't be domesticated. The problem is that they shouldn't be domesticated.

I see deer more often in the city I live in than the countryside....

I want a Chimpanzee.

I don't think I'd want an exotic pet. Cats and dogs have developed some degree of human psychological behaviour over the last few thousand years or so, and they don't behave as captives within the home, but as family members who interact on the same level as people.

You can see that in the way they won't try to escape. They will often try to get out, but that's because they're bloody idiots with more curiosity than sense. But they don't usually stay away from home unless they get lost, or in the case of cats, find a better offer. My dog occasionally gets shut out accidentally, and he just barks until someone lets him back in.

I wouldn't feel right owning a pet that had to be kept locked in a cage, especially not birds. Fish and some of the more stupid reptiles and insects I can understand, as they can be kept in smaller environments without any loss in quality of life.

But for an animal that lived around the house, I'd want something that responded to affection like cats and dogs, wasn't stressed and constantly looking for escape, in other words, not merely rendered nonviolent and tamed, but domesticated. If there are other animals that fit within that definition I suppose they could make for decent pets, but I can't really think of any beyond certain farm animals.

A raven, which in some areas of the world are actually kept as pets. I promise myself, that I will have a freaking raven as a pet one day.

There are times when I'd like something unusual. Like a corvid of some sort. Or a bearded dragon. Or maybe take up breeding rat snakes for fun and profit.

Then I remember that taking care of animals of any sort is an expensive pain in the ass and move onto to other things.

Of course it's a given that animals should be treated with proper care and according to their needs. I think you'll find just as many people mistreating domesticated animals. I don't think it's right to keep rabbits locked in a cage the majority of the time for instance, but still a lot of people keep their rabbits that way. Not to mention confusion and general ignorance when it comes to things like diet. One of the biggest issues is probably people impulse-buying pets without realizing how much of a responsibility it is. That goes for middle class families getting a puppy for their kids just as much as a rich person buying a dwarf crocodile or pig or whatever is deemed trendy among celebrities at the time.

Usually children..

Puma (or cougar, or mountain lion, or whatever other name they go by).

Asian Golden/Wild Cat

Fishing Cat

Snow Leopard

Ocelot

Cheetah

...you get the idea.

I have no idea about the legality in my state, but I'd also be interested in Meerkats and others in the Mongoose family, and a lot of he smaller to mid-size wild rodent-like type animals. Squirrels, marmots, beavers, etc.

We'll get you all of them combined into a PAFSOC.

A sloth or raccoon.

I don't need a raccoon as a "pet", since they come into our yard/neighborhood almost every night anyway. I don't mess with them most of the time, but once they had a family of 4 or 5 babies and I couldn't resist putting out some catfood for them all. It was so adorable.

...but that was a one time thing (feeding them). I have no idea where they come from ... must live in the sewers and/or the grass in the bay marshes not far from here.

There's two on my list:

1: The Macaw: I've always found these birds beautiful (until they molt) and smart.

2: Ferrets: I've always wanted a ferret ever since I saw the movie the Beastmaster. My sister had a couple of ferrets and they where a hoot, I wished she gave them to me but we had dogs(a Rottweiler and Golden Retriever) that would kill any small animals so it was a no go.

Now I did have a Tarantula once but it died on it's second molt---still she was a cool spider and because of her I'm not that much fearful of spiders anymore---but I still like them roaming freely around my house .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Humanx_Commonwealth_races

After spending some time with a friend's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Grey_ParrotI've wanted one, but there's no way I would have time to raise one properly. In the right hands they're pretty freaking amazing birds, though. I've never been in the presence of another bird that can actually have a legit conversation that isn't just random sounds and mimics.