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Breed Details
Breed Name:
Guinea Pigs
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
The guinea pig is an animal of many firsts. It was the first rodent to be domesticated, one of the first small mammals in space on the Soviet space ship Vostok - 3A No. 1 on March 9, 1961, along with a mouse, and a dog called Chernuska. It is also an ideal first pet for many people. The guinea pigs, also known as a cavie (pronounced as ka-vee), is an infrequent biter and unfussy eater popular among breeders and casual pet owners alike.
Life Expectancy:
3 to 6 years
Weight:
900-1000 gram
Height:
5-7 inches
Color:
Black, White, Red, Buff/Cream (blonde), Chocolate and Beige
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Hamster
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
Hamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae. The subfamily contains about 18 species, classified in six or seven genera. Hamsters come in lots of different colours and shapes. Because they are easy to breed in captivity, hamsters are often used as lab animals and kept as pets in more economically developed countries.
Over recent years they are very commonly used as pets for the common family. Hamsters are crepuscular. In the wild, they burrow underground in the daylight to avoid being caught by predators. They are most active around dusk and dawn, which has led many people to mistake them for being nocturnal. In the wild they will eat any wheat, nuts and small bits of fruit and vegetables that they might find lying around on the ground, occasionally eating small insects such as small crickets or mealworms.
Hamsters got their name from the German word "Hamstern" which means to hoard. They have elogated fur lined pouches on both sides of their heads which extends to their shoulders, which they stuff full of food to be brought back to the colony or eaten later. Their diet contains a variety of foods both In the wild and when kept as a pets including dried food, berries and nuts, hard boiled or scrambled eggs, chicken and turkey. Fresh fruits and vegetables are also an integral part of their diet.Behavior really depends on their environment, genetics, and interaction with people.
Life Expectancy:
18-24 months
Weight:
85-130 g
Height:
4-5 inches
Color:
black, gray, white, brown, buff, yellow.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Hedgehog
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
Hedgehogs are easily distinguished by their spines, which are hollow hairs made stiff with keratin. Their spines are not poisonous or barbed and, unlike the quills of a porcupine, cannot easily be removed from the animal. However, spines normally come out when a hedgehog sheds baby spines and replaces them with adult spines. This is called "quilling". When under extreme stress or during sickness, a hedgehog can also lose spines. A defense that all species of hedgehogs possess is the ability to roll into a tight ball, causing all of the spines to point outwards.
However, its effectiveness depends on the number of spines, and since some of the desert hedgehogs evolved to carry less weight, they are much more likely to try to run away and sometimes even attack the intruder, trying to ram into the intruder with its spines, leaving rolling as a last resort. This results in a different number of predators for different species: while forest hedgehogs have relatively few, primarily birds (especially owls) and ferrets, smaller species like the Long-eared Hedgehog are preyed on by foxes, wolves and mongooses. All hedgehogs are primarily nocturnal, although different species can be more or less likely to come out in the daytime.
The hedgehog sleeps for a large portion of the daytime either under cover of bush or grass or rock or in a hole in the ground. Again, different species can have slightly different habits, but in general hedgehogs dig out dens for shelter. All wild hedgehogs can hibernate, although not all do; hibernation depends on temperature, abundance of food and species. Hedgehogs have 5 toes on their front paws with short nails. However, on their back paws they have 4 toes with long, constantly growing nails. They have these characteristics because hedgehogs burrow. Hedgehogs are fairly vocal, and communicate not only in a series of grunts and snuffles, but sometimes in loud squeals (depending on species).
Hedgehogs occasionally perform a ritual called anointing. When the animal comes across a new scent, it will lick and bite the source and then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue. It is not known what the specific purpose of this ritual is, but some experts believe anointing camouflages the hedgehog with the new scent of the area and provides a possible poison or source of infection to any predator that gets poked by their spines. Anointing is sometimes also called anting because of a similar behavior in birds. Similar to opossums, mice, and moles, hedgehogs have some natural immunity against snake venom due to the protein erinacin in the animal's muscular system.[3] Hedgehogs perform well with other pets, including cats and dogs. They are occasionally threatened by these animals, though, but for those rare instances, the hedgehogs just roll into a ball until the threat is gone.
Life Expectancy:
16 years
Weight:
600 grams
Height:
7-9 inches
Color:
Dark Grey, Grey, Chocolate, Brown.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Iguana
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
The green iguana is considered by many to be the most popular pet reptile on the market. Most are farmed in Latin America, but some are collected from the wild in Latin American countries. A few are captive bred. Additionally, the green iguana can now also be found in south Florida where it is so firmly established that there are now cautionary road signs depicting crossing iguanas in Key Biscayne!
This lizard is essentially a leaf-eater by nature, and despite it propensity for eating other items when they are offered, he should be maintained on a diet of about 95 percent healthy greens and vegetables and 5 percent fruits. Hatchlings are bright green, often with black bands. Adults are duller gray-green but intensify in color (some turn predominantly fire-orange) during the breeding season. Baby iguanas remain fairly close to the ground, but adults are primarily arboreal. All sizes can run swiftly and swim well.
Life Expectancy:
15 years
Weight:
22 lbs
Height:
7-9 inches
Color:
Brown and Blue.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Mice and Rats
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
When you think of a traditional small pet, you might name the hamster, gerbil or even a rat. Though often overlooked, the diminutive mouse can also make an excellent pet. Mice belong to the family Rodentia, which means to gnaw and are thought to have originated in Asia. Through adaptation, along with prolific breeding, the mouse now has a worldwide distribution. The Swiss albino mouse is the most popular pet mouse but through breeding and selection, various colors, coat varieties and exotic species are becoming more common.
Life Expectancy:
1.3 - 3 years
Weight:
20 g
Height:
3-5 inches
Color:
White , Brown,Cream and Grey.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Monkeys
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
Some characteristics are shared among the groups; most New World monkeys have prehensile tails while Old World monkeys have non-prehensile tails or no visible tail at all. Some have trichromatic colour vision like that of humans, others are dichromats or monochromats.
Although both the New and Old World monkeys, like the apes, have forward facing eyes, the faces of Old World and New World monkeys look very different, though again, each group shares some features such as the types of noses, cheeks and rumps. In order to understand the monkeys, it is necessary to study the characteristics of the different groups individually
Life Expectancy:
30 years
Weight:
35 kg (75 lb)
Height:
9-12 inches
Color:
black, gray, white, brown, buff and yellow.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Rabbit
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
While the rabbits on display in a pet shop or show may look different from one another, they are all domestic rabbits descended from the European or Old World rabbit. Over a couple of hundred years, through careful, and sometimes not so careful husbandry, domestic rabbits now come in over three dozen different breeds and a hundred varieties.
Life Expectancy:
8 to 12 years
Weight:
2 kg
Height:
3-5 inches
Color:
brown, gray, buff and white.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Snake
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
Like all reptiles, the outer layer of a snakes skin is composed of scales and is shed regularly as it grows. Snakes, however, have wide belly scales that enable them to grip the ground as they move. A series of ball and socket joints connect their vertebrae, enabling flexibility and movement. A snakes internal organs are adapted to the elongated shape. The left lung is generally smaller than the right and the bladder is absent.
In recent years the popularity of owning these creatures as pets has grown tremendously, in most cases far faster than the growth of good information on how to care for these animals. Pet shops carry dozens of species, usually whatever is available on the market, and shoppers are most often told that the snakes are easy to keep and require little care. If this were actually the case, the estimated death rate of pet snakes between 50 and 90 percent of them die within the first year would be far lower. Most of these deaths are not due to the sorry condition of snakes, but to the ignorance of those who keep them as pets.
Life Expectancy:
20 years
Weight:
500 pounds
Height:
3-5 inches
Color:
Silver, Grey, Orange, Black and Green.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Spiders
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
All spiders produce silk, a thin, strong protein strand extruded by the spider from spinnerets most commonly found on the end of the abdomen. Many species use it to trap insects in webs, although there are also many species that hunt freely. Silk can be used to aid in climbing, form smooth walls for burrows, build egg sacs, wrap prey, and temporarily hold sperm, among other applications. All spiders except those in the families Uloboridae and Holarchaeidae, and in the suborder Mesothelae (together about 350 species) can inject venom to protect themselves or to kill and liquefy prey.
Only about 200 species, however, have bites that can pose health problems to humans. Many larger species' bites may be quite painful, but will not produce lasting health concerns. Spiders are found all over the world, from the tropics to the Arctic, living underwater in silken domes they supply with air, and on the tops of mountains. In 1973 Skylab 3 took two spiders into space to test their web-spinning capability in free-fall.
Life Expectancy:
19 years
Weight:
3-5 grams
Height:
90 mm (about 3.5 inches)
Color:
Black, White, Red, Buff/Cream (blonde), Chocolate.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Tortoise
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
Many tortoises, (for example, the red-footed), have specific temperature, roaming space, light, air moisture, and diet requirements. They are difficult to captive breed, so many are wild caught. Tortoises need outdoor space to roam. It is not possible to house-train a tortoise.
Life Expectancy:
150 years
Weight:
500 pounds
Height:
30 mm - 40 mm
Color:
Brown and Cream.
Breed Details
Breed Name:
Turtle
Breed Category:
Exotic
Description:
Turtles, particularly small terrestrial and freshwater turtles, are commonly kept as pets. Among the most popular are Russian Tortoises, Greek spur-thighed tortoises and red-ear sliders (or terrapin).
Life Expectancy:
70 years
Weight:
300 kg (670 lb)
Height:
10-19 inches
Color:
Green, Brown and Cream.
