Thank you all for the suggestions.

Life changes, keep this in mind and wait a little while after you move to decide if the time is right for more pets.
I am most definitally keeping this in mind. It is just going to be so weird after I move out because I'm going to be going from almost ten pets to one (or three if my ferts are still around - in three years Casey will be 6 and Dameon will be 5. That's old for a ferret). From my viewpoint, if I can handle ten critters, with five of them being high matinence animals, as well as highschool, work, and basketball, then having two during college wouldn't be too challenging. Whenever I'm fully confident about the amount of care I can give an animal, I'm rarely wrong.

If you must have an exotic animal to show off to your friends please adopt a Furby; they can't die of loneliness, or starve.
Okay, this quote from that hedgehog article made me laugh. LOL I must say that Furbies make excellent pets, and if you think they can't starve, you've never had to listen to one say, "Feed me! I'm hungry!" over and over again. And mine was a very big talker in the "Ah, me scared" department when left in the dark. LOL They are also a good watch pet - just set it in front of the door and if someone comes in it will wake up with a happy "Cockadoodledoo! Sun up!"

How about a Hedgehog?
I breifly thought about that, but from what I've read, they don't seem like an "interactive" pet. I must admit what turned me off was when an article about them said they tended to be "grumpy".

I thought about maybe a rabbit? Or do you want something a little more exotic than that!
I don't know if a rabbit is my cup of tea. I thought about it breifly (I LOVE Holland Lops ) but I guess I don't know enough about them. I cared for a school rabbit over winter break, but that wasn't a good experience because it wasn't tame, kicked all of the time, and was in WAY to small of a cage.

Chinchilla!
Too spastic for me. I've been around a couple and they are cute, but they are so HYPER! Like a giant Gerbil. lol

what about a sugar glider or even a mouse??
I also thought about a mouse, but their lifespan is so short. Granted they are cheap, but I wouldn't want to get attached to a cute little mouse and then have it die on me a year later.

Sugar Gliders I'm still poking around with. I've read that if you can't devote three hours with them each evening or night then you shouldn't get one, and I wouldn't be able to devote to that kind of neediness and also spend time with my dog. I've also read that they can't be litterboxed trained, so letting one run around a room for a while wouldn't be good as I'd find poop and pee everywhere afterwards.


Does anyone know of any good Rattie links? I'm going to google about them, but any favorite links would be helpful.