What would be the coolest wild animal to have as a pet?

Pygmy marmosets are cool.

Ooh, yeah, I bet that thing would be very interesting to have around the house.

I think they're probably extremely stinky though.

And probably extremely destructive, too.

I saw some thing on Animal Planet about crazy people who spend fortunes on house-habitats for their animals (one guy on the show had a house built around the fact that he owns a miniature horse -- the whole thing was kinda creepy) and one person had built this multi-story glass enclosure inside the house for a bunch of monkeys of some kind. She said she loved watching them but the enclosure had to be some kinda double-strength glass to keep out the stench.

I'm going to get Soz one of these....when's your birthday?

A black panther or a lion.Im a wild cat fan.

This little sweetie pie was photo'd by Hamburger on their last cruise (around Cape Horn).

Alas, it doesn't work if I put the IMG brackets around it, so you have to click to see..
http://img318.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc002731tz.jpg

Awww...................I want one of those!!

A beaver, of course. Or better yet, multiple beavers.

I'd like to have elephants

I'd need a much bigger back yard though.

hyena would be cool. i would sit in my living room and cackle with my hyena for hours.

Hyena breath smells really good from what I understand.

More of Hamburger's wonderful photos of penguins are on this post on his thread about the cruise.

well, there you go hyena it is then. i bet the Department of homeland security would think twice to give me troubles with visa if i showed up with a hyena at their office.

We actually have one of these:

Really?

(Yes, I'm gullible, but I can't tell.)

Sozlet and I were just talking about this one yesterday -- we've seen him in our yard, and she thought he would make a great pet. (Can't really tell from the picture that they have incredibly soft-looking fur -- didn't actually pet him, though.)

Smoky shrew

I would like to have giraffe. THey could lick my 2nd story windows
from the outside quite nicely, and prune the larger trees.

Is that a sugar glider DrewDad?

A neighbor had one, they named it "sweetie"

king penguin

in freezer