Uncommon pets

Farmer Zhang Xianping rides his pig "Big Precious" during an interview with the media, in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China, November 2, 2015. Zhang, a pig breeder, instead of killing it, decided to keep the two-year-old "Big Precious" as pet when its weight reached 600 kg, according to local media. REUTERS/StringerRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa take a taxi ride in New York, April 7, 2012. Cocoa is a 3-year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with its owner Fakroddin in Summit, New Jersey. They frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the city. Fakroddin raised Cocoa since she was 2 months old and treats her like a human. "She doesn't like goats, she doesn't like farms, she likes the people and the city." Fakroddin said. REUTERS/Allison JoyceRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

Zukhro, an employee of the city zoo, walks with male lion Vadik on the territory of the zoo in the capital Dushanbe, Tajikistan, January 20, 2011. Employees take the lion from its cage to have a promenade along the territory two times a week while holding a piece of meat to attract Vadik's attention so it walks nearby. REUTERS/Nozim KalandarovRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A man pulls his camel as he sits in an auto rickshaw during a dust storm in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 29, 2015. REUTERS/Amit DaveRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A man carries his pet iguana on his shoulder during the 2010 "Love Animal Day" pet carnival in Taipei April 24, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky LohRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A man poses with a hyena along a street in Lagos, November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Akintunde AkinleyeRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A contestant skis with his pet duck during a skiing with pets competition at a ski resort in Sanmenxia, Henan province, China, January 12, 2014. REUTERS/China DailyRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

Gary Baker who goes by "G Bake" carries his ball python "China" during spring break festivities in Panama City Beach, Florida March 13, 2015. REUTERS/Michael SpooneybargerRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

Zhu Roumeng walks with her pet pig, Wuhua, near her house in Beijing April 22, 2015. Zhu has raised the female pig, which weighs around 85 kilogram, for the last three-and-half years and they've recently become an internet sensation after she posted her selfies with her pet pig on China's microblogging sites. Her surname 'Zhu' sounds exactly like the Mandarin word for 'pig', as such it became the reason for her love of pigs since she was a child, Zhu said. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A man reads a book as his pony waits nearby, in central of Slaviansk, Ukraine, April 26, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

The grandson of Palestinian refugee Saad Eldeen Al-Jamal watches as his grandfather sits with his African two lion cubs outside his house at Al-Shabora refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip March 19, 2015. Al-Jamal has eventually achieved his dream of raising lions at home after acquiring the two cubs, whose parents are believed to have been smuggled into Gaza through a tunnel along the border with Egypt nearly three years ago. His family has named the female cub Mona, an Arab name, while the male lion was named Alex. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

Christophe Lutz walks Marcel, a 30 month-old pig-wild boar crossbreed in the small village of Kolbsheim near Strasbourg, August 10, 2012. Marcel, an offspring of a sow and a wild boar, was raised by Christophe and his wife Chloe when he was 3 months-old, and neglected by its mother. REUTERS/Vincent KesslerRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A pet bear sits among residents who escaped to higher ground from their flooded village in the Tando Allahyar district of Pakistan's Sindh province September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar SoomroRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A three-year old llama 'Socke' lies in a dining room in the western town of Muelheim January 14, 2009. 'Socke' lives in the house of her owner Nicole Doepper since its birth, when it was injured by other animals and had a leg amputated. REUTERS/Ina FassbenderRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99

A boy rests his pet pigeon on his head as he plays with it in a slum in Mumbai April 28, 2014. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiRead more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/news/picture/unusual-pets?articleId=USRTX1UL6B#H2OFtTRpWaPCTpUp.99