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 confusingCA 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.
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