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  • Julia Hamilton wanted a pet, and settled on Nutmeg, a hamster she adopted in January from the Carroll County Humane Society. The Sykesville 11-year old had Nutmeg, age unknown, take part in her 5th-grade science experiment.
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  • "He's just too darn cute," says John Raine III  of Tippy, the box turtle he found while mowing the grass at his home in St. Michaels. What started as a curiosity to show people soon turned into a beloved pet that travels with Raine and his wife, Barbara.
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  • Jamie Hollandsworth has had pets all her life, but she wasn't quite sure what to expect when her nephew asked her to take in a turtle he'd bought on vacation. Then the size of a quarter, Franklin came to live in Hollandsworth's Bel Air home.<br />
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It is illegal to sell eggs or turtles smaller than four inches throughout the United States, and in Maryland it is illegal to release the species, declared invasive, into the wild. This often happens after owners realize the cute baby turtles can turn into a lifetime commitment. Most red-eared slider turtles live for 20 to 30 years, although some can live for more than 40, and can grow to a foot in length.<br />
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Life with the turtle hasn't come without surprises.  "I thought Franklin was a male when I got him seven years ago," she says. "But this past March, I found 10 eggs in her tank. We now know that Franklin is a female." Whoops.
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  • Wyatt Burrows (right),  a 10-year old from Abingdon, and his brother Raymond, 12, watch Wyatt's Chilean rose hair tarantula Fifi as it crawls around the tank he keeps in his room. The seven-year-old spider was two when he got it. It is difficult to know if the spider, which can live up to 20 years, is a male or female.
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  • "He's a teacup Bullmastiff," Mayli Mrkward of 120-pound, three-year-old Meaty. This breed of dog weighs up to 150 pounds, and Meaty is at the low end of the scale.<br />
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 Mayli, her husband Darren and Meaty also share their Parry Hall home with Zippy, a three-year-old French Bulldog. Zippy, despite being much smaller, is in control with size not making a difference.
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  • Cyrus Ballo received a corn snake for his seventh birthday, which he named Sneaky. The snake, which stays in his room, was a gift from his parents Michael Ballo and Joanna Pi-Sunyer who rescued him from a local shelter.
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  • Max, a 6- or 7-year-old Rough Collie, waits for owner Sue Roberts to return from inside her Bel Air home. "He is so good with people, and loves everybody," Sue said. "And he follows me everywhere." this mean Max stares through the door, waiting patiently, as his owner slips briefly inside.
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  • Pokey is an African pygmy hedgehog Jen Smith named after the horse in the Gumby animated shorts. Somewhere around 4-years old, Pokey was a rescue from the Hedgehog Welfare Society, and is one of four she owns.
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  • Dakota, a nine-year-old Doberman-Labrador-Rottweiler mix, was adopted from BARCS in January 2004 by Barb Nelms and Charles Turesko of Ellicott City.<br />
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At the age of 12 months, his first family decided he was too big, and too much work, as they prepared for the holidays. He was skin and bones at 51 pounds with chronic intestinal upset. Unfamiliar with how to navigate stairs or the sounds of a washing machine or dishwasher, they believe he'd spent most of his life outdoors.<br />
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Nine years later he weights 95 pounds, and looks athletic and trim.
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  • Sporty is the 'dogcat' at Fair Play Farms in White Hall. The cat, who a vet figured is 5-years old, is one of several who hangs around, including Graycat, who they suspect is his brother. Ginny Class, the farm manager, says the cat acts much like a dog. The cat greets everyone as they drive up to the barn, then jumps in their cars. Adopted by the Farm Manager Ginny Class and several horse owners,Sporty strayed in one day and never left.
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  • Jameson Kelly, an 8-year-old American short-hair Lee Kelly of Towson has owned since he was a kitten she got from a rescue. Recently, under veterinarian's orders, he lost a pound and weighed in at 18 pounds.
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  • Libby, a 15-year-old Lab mix, was rescued from Barcs by Liz and Lynn Holland. "This is like her nursing home," Liz said of taking the dog into the home they share with two other dogs, 3 cats and Charlotte, the couple's 10-week-old baby. <br />
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"She can spend her golden years here." Liz has been with them for two weeks. Libby gets to spend a lot of time at Patterson Park, just a few blocks from their house.
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  • Fluffy Sayan, a silkie hen, lives in Hunt Vally with several other chickens and three children.  Kristen and Paul Sayan adopted a young Silkie hen they christened Fluffy, which is a unique characteristic of the breed. Blind in one eye from an infection early in life, Fluffy lives kind of large with the Sayans. "She is extremely friendly and tolerates being carried around constantly," says Kristen.<br />
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Fluffy has also become the family's largest egg producer, laying five to seven eggs per week and continuing to lay long into the fall, when their other chickens stop for the year.
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  • Elvis Gamble, a 3-year-old Siberian Husky, spends much of his time outdoors. Fortunate for him, his owner, Laura Gamble, works from home.<br />
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Gamble adopted Elvis in 2009 from the Baltimore County Humane Society, who had rescued him from a kill shelter in Tennessee. (Hence his name Elvis, whom Gamble always pictured as wearing a fancy white suit.)
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  • Sissy Robbins, a 13-year-old (or so) Collie mix living in her third home. Holly Robbins of Fallston volunteered to take in Sissy when her second owner had to give her up. She spends much of her time laying in the grass of the front yard.
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  • Max, a 6- or 7-year-old Rough Collie, waits for owner Sue Roberts to return from inside her Bel Air home. "He is so good with people, and loves everybody," Sue said. "And he follows me everywhere." Max stares through the front door, waiting patiently, as his owner slipped briefly inside.
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