Yes. I said turkeys. My neighbor has a turkey and it's quite a remarkable animal. The ethereal birds have beguiling prominence and charm anyone who dares to keep them as pets (even if they can be quite more capricious than a more normal pet, let's say a rabbit...). Here's the story:
My neighbors, whom my family is very close with, love animals. They have had anything from fish and rabbits to snakes and degus! [Please don't excoriate this family, they are really wonderfully normal people]. Anyway, as you can see, they are extremely outdoorsy and love to go camping.
One fine day, while they were out at their lake house in New York (I believe), they found a small saturnine poult (baby turkey). As soon as they went to pick it up, the turkey became distressed--it started to cluck and gobble! Implacable as it may have seemed when they picked it up, they eventually calmed it down and looked everywhere for the mother but the mother was nowhere to be found...
Poor turkey; it must have reached the nadir of its life, it lost its mama! So what did my neighbors do?
By golly, they took it home! They have been taking care of it for many months now and it doesn't seem to have any social stigmas. In fact, just the opposite: the turkey is quite personable!
And I don't mean to allay any qualms about this little unconventional act, but I think it's just fine to have a turkey for a pet!
