The Mongoose - Courageous Snake Killer and Lovable Pet

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lakin dunbar i want a mongoose they are so cute 7/1/2011
anthony johnson a mongoose is awsome and cute love
anthony michael johnson		 5/5/2011
anthony j mongoose,s are a great pet 4/15/2011
darius why isn't anyone commenting?!?!?!?! 2/10/2011
darius what does BTW mean? anybody? 2/10/2011
darius i think it's cool 2/10/2011
darius hhmmm... 2/10/2011
chase fulford this website is a good informer and bucky is a bad influence... yeah you bucky 10/25/2010
chase fulford this website is a good informer 10/25/2010
Alexandra so r mongooses good pets or not? u didnt tell much about them as pets u just said they were good pets in one paragraph and bad pets in another. u didnt say anything else but stuff they do in the wild. its supposed 2 b about them as pets 9/14/2010
mike m this is cool 9/13/2010
T I didn't know that mongoose's could be pets. 7/28/2010
gage Hatton this page is very helpful 5/12/2010
Bob Saggot i was wondering where I could buy a mongoose, anyone know? 5/4/2010
sahil sameed 4/26/2010
christie it was pretty good to know since i have to do an oral report about them! 3/22/2010
Bruce I have one in a small cage at the back door so am about to find out if it's going to be a lovable pet or not.

BTW as well as the list of foods they like, ice cream is missing from it!		 2/4/2010
Bucky I personally think the mongoose is a very weak species and they are called the snake killers but i have watched many videos of watching mongosses fight snakes and the snakes were killing the mongoose 1/3/2010
Krazie Mongooses are such a great pet because my child waz outside playin and there waz a cobra there fixin 2 bite him but da mongoose killed it 11/10/2009
charters2417 I really enjoyed this article. I am about to move to MS and on the property is a lake. I am sure there are snakes there as well. I would like more inormation as to where I can obtain a family of these mongoose. 8/5/2009
Daniel McMillan Re your article on the mongoose as a pet:
I was surprised and gratified to find any entry at all under a "pet mongoose" internet search, much less one that acknowledged their desirability as pets.
I have variously been criticized for "keeping" an "exotic" pet, told that it was inappropriate, and that one day, my most charming friend, Arrow the mongoose, would revert to wild and "turn" on me. Complete, ignorant nonsense. In the wild, a mongoose may live six to eight years, barring a mishap such as a tiger or a human brush bristle hunter. Arrow, however, lived comfortably in a small house with my wife and I and our two cats almost to nine and a half years old.
(I have written a book about his life in our home, but gave up on the usual cumbersome, tiresome, and time-consuming publishing route, and decided to publish it myself.)		 6/29/2009
ferret i meant two wen i did my previous message instead of teo. (good girl) 1/30/2009
Good Girl Daddyluver365,
You are alowed to have pet ferrets in the U.S. you just have to live in the state that allows you to have them as pets. I have three ferrets and they are sooo funny. And if you get one make sure to get teo or else the other one will get lonely.		 1/30/2009
Weevie I looked this up on Google after watching a segment by Steve Irwin in Sri Lanka. One village that he visited had a tame mongoose and he was playing with it. Really funny and adorable. Irwin was pretending that his fingers were snakes and the mongoose was (gently) attacking them. Hilarious. 1/30/2009
54f6s sick! it can kill a cobra 1/26/2009
daddyluver365 This article was very helpful to me because I was looking for another household pet (besides a ferret) that is attracted to shiny objects. I am dissapointed, though, that a U.S. citizen cannot own a ferret, but I still appreciate all the important information that this article had to offer. 12/30/2008
bri i wish they werent illeagly herte in america 9/10/2008
austin jack i really like mongooses, i'm also really afraid of snakes so a mongoose would be the perfect pet for me. 5/21/2008
Paul An adult king cobra will NOT be bothered by a puny mongoose, it's simply too large to kill, and could swallow a mongoose whole. Fortunately, most snakes, even ones such as the King Cobra, would much rather flee than stand and face you, so there is little need for mongooses as company. As far as them making good pets, a mongoose is much like a ferret (they are related after all) so expect a very aloof and distractable animal, who isn't exactly as affectionate as a dog. In addition, they are far more likely to target baby birds and eggs or baby snakes than a full grown cobra. 5/13/2008
Sarah 03/04/08

I just love your article on the Mongoose. One of the the RN I work with said she had a snake problem so I suggested that she get herself a Mongoose, she didn't know what it was, I ask if she ever heard the story about Rikki-Tikki, and she said No.

So I had to look it up on the computer.
 3/4/2008
carl well Jillian has a dumb opinion 1/7/2008
brian I live in Hawaii, not sure what kind of mongoose is here, but they are very social, and are very active in the day.

 9/28/2007
Melinda K I loved this website it worker so well for me! I got really good info, i love cheese 4/23/2007
Jillian This website wasnt good, it didnt help and i needed to write a 5 page paper on mongooses. And didnt get any info from here!! dont go here 4/23/2007
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