✌✌1. Melanie Typaldos and her husband Richard, from Buda, Texas, treat the eight-stone capybara named Gary like a dog, letting him sleep in their bed and taking him out for road trips in their car.
👀👀2. A 79-year-old German man has been living with wolves for more than 40 years.
Wolf researcher Werner Freund is the alpha male to six packs, sharing their food and showering them with kisses to win them over.
👄👄3. Sophia, 11, from Russia, has been living with pet Lynx Zen since her parents rescued it from an animal sanctuary in 2008. After bottle feeding the wildcat she’s developed such a close bond he lets her dress him up, play games and even sleeps on her bed.
👉👉4. She might’ve struggled to get through the doorways, but Fenne the giraffe loved joining her adoptive parents Colin and Theony McRae inside their home. The 10ft beauty would come running when her name was called.
Fenne was taken in by the South African family when they found her close to death in the hot bush after she’d been abandoned by her mother.
✋✋5. Anna Studer, from Tell City, Indiana, is pictured with her pet lioness in her living room.
The huge cat is called Shahzarah – meaning queen of queens – and has the run of her home.
😀😀6. Animal-mad Alan and Heather Hewitt share their home with over 80 exotic creatures.
They run a sanctuary for rescued weird pets, using their property in Morley, Leeds, as a base.
Housemates include two monitor lizards, six bearded dragons, four boa constrictors, two pythons, two giant tortoises, a cane toad, four tarantula spiders, various rodents, an African grey parrot, two meerkats, two racoons and a skunk.
💗💗7. Welsh man David Palmer rescued an abandoned lamb on Easter Monday, but when he tried to take it to a farm, it refused to settle down with the other sheep. So he took it back to his home in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, then built a bungalow in his back garden complete with windows and carpet. The sheep – named Nick Boing after its bouncy personality – used to watch TV from the sofa with coach driver David and was taken for walks around the local park.
👬👬8. Not many people would want to live with a llama but Nicole Doepper from western Germany is happy with her woolly companion. Attempts to get the injured animal to live an outdoor life failed so now Socke the llama is allowed to follow her wherever she goes.
👀👀9. Kelly was so obsessed with her pet squirrel she spent a fortune turning it into a MODEL.
The Florida native has over 4,000 wacky outfits for Sugar Bush and even has a website dedicated to photo shoots she’s done.
🍔🍔10. Tonie Joubert, from South Africa, rescued Jessica the hippo when she was a 35lb calf. She now weighs 110stone and was allowed to kip in his bed – before she broke it. Ex-game warden Tonie found the dying animal after she was washed up by a flood onto his riverside home.
