A person’s pet can hold a significant and special place in their heart. Whether it is a cat, dog or something more unusual, such as a turtle or a snake, these creatures can exist as a person’s best friend. There are endless variations of types of pets a person can choose from, but no matter the type, every pet has its own distinct personality. Get to know some of these unique and unusual pets belonging to the LHS community.
Hope
Type: Horse
Owner: Mr. Rice
Age: 3 years
Favorite treat/toy: “She eats everything. She loves apples and carrots. She also has a favorite ball she plays with.”
Fun fact: “She used to be a wild mustang from Nevada.”
Frog
Type: Tree frog
Owner: Katlyn Soldatke
Age: 2 years
Favorite treat/toy: “He seems equally enthusiastic about all the bugs we give him.”
Fun fact: “His color changes depending on his temperature and mood. (Darker when cold and upset and lighter when he’s warm and happy). Also when we give him fireflies you can still see them glow for a while after he eats them.”
Santiago
Type: Musk turtle
Owner: Sam Sahly
Age: 2 years
Favorite treat/toy: “He loves shrimp and likes to chasea fish around.”
Fun fact: “He likes to climb things.”
Fred, Summer & Lafanda
Type: Three Tiger salamanders
Owner: Oliver Comp
Ages: 4 years, 3 years and 3 years
Favorite treat/toy: “They like dried crickets and grasshoppers.”
Fun fact: “Salamanders like to swim as much as they like to bask in the sun.”
Khan
Type: Donkey
Owner: Mr. Blankenship
Age: 20 years
Favorite treat/toy: “He likes apple flavored horse treats.”
Fun fact: “He’s a rescue donkey.”
Bowie
Type: Bearded dragon
Owner: Ashlyn Gramm
Age: A little over a year
Favorite treat/toy: “Bowie LOVES hornworms”
Fun fact: “Bowie loves to cuddle and lay on my chest, he’s more like a dog than a lizard.”
Fiona
Type: Chinchilla
Owner: Isabella Krunitzky
Age: 5 years
Favorite treat/toy: “None, she just sits in her cage and poops all over the floor.”
Fun fact: “The chinchilla loves to run in this loud hamster wheel type thing.”
Sunny
Type: Sunkissed corn snake
Owner: Makaila Mertes
Age: 9 months
Favorite treat/toy: “He doesn’t have treats or toys, but when the dirt in his tank is replaced he will dig in the dirt for hours.”
Fun fact: “At full size he will be about five feet.”
