Pua on the wall

[buttercup132]

By CA do you mean Canada? Cause Gerbils aren't illegal here lol.

That is really cool that she is your pet. Someone else on PT has a monkey. After doing more research I would like to own a Kinka jou they are so interested and I have seen people own them before.

[Suki Wingy]

wow, I wouldn't even know how to start ging about finding a tamandua in the US! As for exotics, I hope to one day have a skunk and a giant african pouched rat (thingy, don't know whole name) I don't know If I could dedicate that much time though. I saw on the show Pet Story on Animal Planet someone had a coati that they had to rehome because it was too much for them to handle.
Pua's gorgeous, btw!

[Suki Wingy]

By CA do you mean Canada? Cause Gerbils aren't illegal here lol.

CA is the standard postal two letter abreviation for California

[buttercup132]

I was thinking that cause they have them for sale in pet stores.

Where did you get her from? Dose she go in a cage at night?
Do you go out with her like you would a dog, of wich I mean like take her for walks on the street and to the park?

Sorry for all the questions I'm interested.

[Suki Wingy]

Wait, I thought tamanduas were originally from the south Pacific?

[Muddy4paws]

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OMG Shes so cute! I wouldn't know where to start with owning her! lol I dont think I've ever seen one before but the photo of her giving a hug! omg I want one! lol You need to post loads more photos!

[Argranade]

By CA do you mean Canada? Cause Gerbils aren't illegal here lol.

That is really cool that she is your pet. Someone else on PT has a monkey. After doing more research I would like to own a Kinka jou they are so interested and I have seen people own them before.

Ya those animals are realy neat, I stroked one before from this lady who owned him .. of course he was sleepy becasuse it was day time lol.

The only exotic pet I owned was a sugar glider, in a few years I plan on hopefuly buying a pied crow .. they can be taught to speak and can live up to 50 years old & with that bird a tucan would be nice.

[TamanduaGirl]

Okay I'm putting the responses all into one big one. Hope that's not to confusing for some. I tried to sort of highlite what each paragraph refrences so make it easier to get to the topic of intrest. It's partly due to the site was being weird for me.

I'm a big photo person so there will be lots of those. Thanks for all the compliments on her. I don't mind the questions. I actualy just got my USDA so we can go around to schools and things to do educational presentations will likely start that in the new year. And my old job with exotics was along similar lines. Always lots of questions about the animals.

Yeah I meant CA for California. At least I did remember earlier to spell out Los Angeles and not put LA because I know that can get really confusing CA is one of the worst states for owning anything exotic especialy exotic mammals.

Personaly I don't think I'd ever want a kinkajou. They aren't that effectionate, tend to be bitey, and really messy being fruit eaters and the ones I heard about tend to like to aim their poop to land outside the cage and the poop is pretty nasty from them being fruit eaters. But the people that I know that have them don't tend to talk about them much but that bit abouve stuck i my mind. http://www.juliesjungle.com/kinkajou.php It makes them sound nicer than I decribed them. It does touch on the fact that they tend to splatter their poop everyhwere though.


Coatimundis are notoriously difficult pets and should only be attempted by someone with other exotic experience already and studied into them. They go through a bitey phase and have rasor sharp teeth. They're actualy kind of scary. After that they aren't so bad just mischivouse like their racoon cousins. I know several people that have them and love them but they don't sound like they are for me either.

Skunks are cool I would consider one of them someday. The main thing is not to over feed them so they don't get fat.

Pouched rats, well, that wont happen due to the whole monkey pox scare some time back. The CDC never lifted their "temporary" ban on sale, exchange, travel of prairie dogs and pouched rats. If you already had one you could keep it and sometimes can get a special permit to rehome but otherwise they can't even go anywhere but home and to the vet. So eventualy if the ban is never lifted they will die out as pets. It was all just a matter of improper quarentine and the prairie dogs especialy were inocent bistandars since they don't normaly carry it. But governemt isn't always fare.

Oh I'd like a pied crow too someday. They are expensive too. I did have a crow once that had birth defects and no hope of being released for awhile they are neat.

I think the south pacific just reffers the certain pacific islands? Costa rica has tamanduas and is part of the south pacific but is also part of south america. Part of south america borders the southern pacific ocean too. The pangolin is from Asia and africa but they aren't even in the same order as Tamanduas though they look like an armored tamandua and have the same diet. They are higlky endangered. http://www.ufba.br/~mamifero/pangolin.gif

I thought I mentioned where I got her from but I got her from a guy in Florida but as I said I know better people now. I don't want to giving names or anything on a public board since you could get the odd person come across the post and rush off and get on a list to get one without learnig about them first, ect. I'm hoping a lady that had a baby will have one again in a year or two and maybe I'll get it this time. I tried before but she claimed she wasn't getting my messages. Day dreaming but the timing could work out perfect if she does for some of my hopes.

Where she sleeps
She has a cage that she sometimes gets a time out in when awake or for if I need to be away and on my days off she sleeps all day so leave her in there dozing in her hammock. When I work she comes to work with me and sleeps in my lap most of the time since I have my own store. Then she wakes up in the evenings to eat and play. She sleeps with me in bed at night though wakes up on and off to eat and during her active phase sometimes to just wander my room a bit. They are not stricly nocturnal or diurnal or anything like other animals. In the wild they are just active whenever it suits them but are more nocturnal around human populations. In captivity it seems females do tend to be more nocturnal though Pua was awake during the day a lot when I first got her and had active mornings a couple times this week. Males tend to be more active in general.

when the weather is nice we do go to the park once a week and she runs right along just needs reminding to stay on the trail sometimes. She's not inclined to stay or wait when told though so we go at her pace or pic her up for a bit if, say, someone aproaches us. Our park usualy isn't very active so we don't tend to get crowds but people notice sometimes and sometimes come. I have walked her by the shop some too. She sometimes likes exploring the little hill across the street or I just take her to the gardeny area on the corner and have her pee then let her trot back to the shop. She knows here way there. She is on a harness and leash of course since that last almost sounded like she might not be. She LOVEs going to the park and running on the woodland trails. Really loves exploring.

[Suki Wingy]

thanks for all your info Unfortunatly I'd have to change the legistature of move a state over to legally own a skunk. I've wanted one for some time now. As for the rats, I did read something about a bad but I didn't know it was never lifted.
What do you know/think about hybrid cats? ie Half serval, half domestic cat?

[TamanduaGirl]

they can be great but you need to know your F's first.
F1 is 50/50
f2 is 25/75
then F3 F4

first you take a serval(or other exotic cat) and breed to domestic F1 then breed the offspring to a domestic F2 untill F4 or F5 and they can brred back to themselves. Up untill a certain point the males are sterile so they can breed back to themselves before then(not sure it that part is the same for all exotic cat hybrids). Kind of like mules but it's just the males(or maybe just usualy the males not positive).

Anyway you want an F4 or later. They still look cool have a lot of the plusses of servals but are considered domestic at that point and wont be spraying everything or shouldn't while ALL full blood exotics will. You can always work your way up later if you decide to go into the real full blood exotic cats.

Savannahs are part serval and bengals are part asian Leopard Cat. Bengals come in a little more variety.

found a good over view page and has some listed I didn't know about.
http://www.savannahcatbreed.com/breeds.shtml

[areias]

By CA do you mean Canada? Cause Gerbils aren't illegal here lol.

That is really cool that she is your pet. Someone else on PT has a monkey. After doing more research I would like to own a Kinka jou they are so interested and I have seen people own them before.

The horse rescue next to where my horse is kept has a kinkajou. I tend to agree...they can be very hard to tame, and very flighty. The originally wild ones tend to bite. I guess one might be okay if raised by hand.


I want a flying squirrel, that's about as exotic as I get. And maybe a zorse but...

[lvpets2002]

Oh WoW that is an Ant Eater.. Do you have license to have this animal?

[Suki Wingy]

thanks. I knew about a few breeds but I keep blanking. I think caracals are crossed frequently too. I don't think I'd want a bengal unless I was going for a domestic cat anyway.

[wolflady]

Oh my goodness! What a cute pet Pua is! This has been an interesting thread to read through, and she is definitely not something you see everyday! LOL

What do you feed her?

**hugs**

[TamanduaGirl]

The diet is complicated though she does have a simple one for which gets mixed with the other. I'll just copy and paste from my carehseet. The diet tends to keep evolving as I learn more and as we see how she does with it.

simple easy diet
2 cups powdered dry cat food
1/2 cup flax seed meal
1/2 cup red beans powdered
1/4 cup dehydrated frozen spinach

Grind all in coffee grinder remove anything that doesn't powder small.
Mix with water when ready to serve.

The simple diet is convenient to have and should be nutritionally complete based on the analysis of all ingredients compared to wild diet and K content of leafeater. But mine not only likes the fresh frozen diet better it gives her much nicer stools and she seems all around healthier when on it or a mix of the two.

Gourmet diet
1 pounds bananas (feed without skin)
1 pound tomatoes
1 pound fruit, oranges, kiwi, berries any acidic fruit is preferred
2 boiled eggs
2 pounds feeder insects such as meal worms, crickets and silk worms, ect. (got 5,000 meal worms and 250 wax worms for about $20 and is about 2 pounds)
1 pound chicken or turkey breast boiled
1 pound boiled liver
1 pound fresh cooked shrimp (pulverized equivalent of 4oz dried shrimp)
1/4 cup bone meal powder
1 cup flax seed meal
1 cup dried red beans ground to powder
2 pkgs frozen spinach(10oz or about 4 & 1/2 cups)
7-15 teaspoons blue green algae, cell tech animal algae (based on size of
animal)

Blend all in food precessor with fish/shrimp/chicken water then run through a berry strainer (metal cone with holes and pestle to push liquid through). Reblend the remainder then restrain at least twice should only be a couple cups of waist. The waist should be small enough it could be eaten but mine was always leaving the small bits at the bottom so strain it now so all will be lapped up and it's safer if using chicken or liver in case of sinew.