11.   Not the wild critters that live in the barn and play in the wood pile, but the highly intelligent domesticated animals that make great pets.

12.   Others say pygmy hedgehogs, which are small enough to fit comfortably in cupped hands, make good pets if properly nurtured.

13.   People try to make pets of them and they end up here.

14.   She said mice are more fun because of their entertaining antics, but rats make better pets.

15.   So it was shocking to hear her say that ferrets can make fine pets as long as people do a little research and understand the animal.

16.   So pig advocates trot out videos of pet pigs in homes as proof that the small porkers can indeed make domestic pets.

17.   Still, despite that above quote coming directly from the Bible, some people seem to think that snakes make good pets.

18.   The culprits are Barbary monkeys that make cute pets as babies but quickly grow into nasty-tempered, sharp-fanged simian equivalents of Lorena Bobbit.

19.   They say he made pets out of stray animals and feed them, too.

20.   This intelligence, she says, is one reason they make good pets.