Boy if this list doesn't ID me irl.....oh well.
This is going to read ridiculous.
Who the hell needs so many animals? But, they were mostly, kinda spread out.
Thinking back....I've had a shit ton of pets(!)
Some exotic, some closer to the norm.
Of course not all were exclusively mine. Some of them were shared with family and later live in g/fs or wives.
Let's see:
Started out with insects and kept several praying mantises and stick bugs, an ant farm, painted turtles, a snapping turtle, 2 aquarium frogs, a few salamanders, 2 scorpions, 2 finches, a few parakeets, quite a few rabbits (including angoras), 2 raccoons (at different times),1 horse, 2 goats, several cats and an incredibly bright schnauzer and a little later a dachshund, then two beagles.
That was childhood...may have been more.
During college I had: a rosy-tailed boa constrictor which grew to 6' before being sold to a pet shop, a ferret, a tokay gecko, an iguana, African cichlids (fish) and a mixed dog (ridgeback w/ lab).
Later adult life,...not so many pets. Just too much moving around I guess.
But my family always keeps a few running around.
Edit: Almost forgot. I'd choose.....
a chinchilla, a hedgehog or...a lynx.