Weird Pets

Some people don’t get more adventurous in pet ownership than a gold fish or a hamster. These people did get more adventurous. 

1Two lion cubs play on top of furniture in a domestic house in Kharkov. Gleb Garanich/Reuters

2Julian, a pet Red Howler monkey, uses the toilet in La Pintada. Albeiro Lopera/Reuters

3Peruvian surfer Pianezzi rides wave with his alpaca Pisco at San Bartolo beach in Lima. Pilar Olivares/Reuters

4Ecologist Dmitry Shamovich plays with a tamed wolf at his house in the remote village of Sosnovy Bor. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

5A resident walks with a pet pig on a hazy day in Beijing. Reuters

6Carissa Boulden watches her pet horse Princess eat at the family's dining table in Sydney. TIM WIMBORNE/Reuters

7A three-year old llama 'Socke' lies in a dining room in the western town of Muelheim. Ina Fassbender/Reuters

8Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa take a taxi ride in New York. Allison Joyce/Reuters

9Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa relax at their home in Summit. Allison Joyce/Reuters

10Alin Nava tries a headband with her pet piglet Charlotte in her bedroom in Monterrey. Daniel Becerril/Reuters

11Christophe Lutz walks Marcel, a 30 month-old pig-wild boar crossbreed in the small village of Kolbsheim near Strasbourg. Vincent Kessler/Reuters

12A goat named Izak and his owner Bill Higgins walk past a line of supporters for US President Barack Obama ouside the Dover Elks Club Lodge before the start of a campaign event in Dover. Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters

13A Chilean rose tarantula walks over the face of Zhao Jing on a street in Wuhan, Hubei province. Stringer Shanghai/Reuters

14A couple take their pet rabbit for a walk on the South Bank of the Thames river in London. Chris Helgren/Reuters

15Kangaroo grabs can of beer held by Kathy Noble as she stands behind bar at the 127-year-old Comet Inn. David Gray/Reuters

16A man leads his pet bear across Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg looking for paying customers. The animal owner claims 30 roubles ($1.50) from customers to be photographed with the bear. Reuters

17Oui the frog sits on a miniature motorcycle in the eastern beach town of Pattaya. Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

18Man eats sausage as his pet rat rests on his shoulder at Union Square in New York. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

19Osama Al-Hubaishi, 22, feeds birds using his mouth at his home in Sanaa. Mohamed Al-Sayaghi/Reuters

20Veligurov walks with Abi, a wild sparrow, near his grandmother's house in the town of Minusinsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

21A Waura Indian girl holds a pet monkey during this year's quarup in Xingu National Park. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

22Xu Guoxing plays a traditional two-stringed Chinese fiddle with his pet rooster and duck in front of his home in a hutong area in Beijing. Reinhard Krause/Reuters

23Thai schoolboy Wattana Thongjon, 10, lays in his bed alongside his pet crocodile Kheng at his home. Jason Reed/Reuters