Unique pets: four students share their critters

Senior, Joe Busch, is the current owner of twenty chickens but at one point Busch had one hundred and ten feathered friends. Busch is the sole owner of the chickens and this has taught him responsibility and hard work. “I have learned a ton; it has been a great time. Raising chickens is something I really recommend,” Busch said. Busch began raising chickens when he was eleven years old when h...

On his eleventh birthday, sophomore Noah Shields was given a chinchilla, Kirby, and he hasn’t looked back since. Shields got Kirby when he was only a few weeks old, and since then the two have been best of friends. Kirby has many unique talents that never fail to impress Shields. Some of these talents include jumping four times its height, crawling into small spaces (like under the stove) to take ...

Deciding what kind of pet to get can be very difficult, but it was not for junior Emily Quealy; she knew that she wanted to get a Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula. She was attracted by this type of pet because it doesn’t require special attention that other housepets need. Quealy has had her tarantula, Alaska Satan, for two years now and is very glad that she decided to get this unique breed of pet. �...

Senior, Savanah Urbano, was the proud owner of a finger monkey named George after Curious George. George was as tall as a pointer finger and could easily fit in Urbano’s hand. Urbano had her beloved pet for one year; her brother bought him in Florida from a man who sold monkeys and lizards at his house. “[My brother] went to look at lizards, and the owner had monkeys too. The man told him...