Sorry, just seemed perfectly appropriate for the title, heh heh. After listening to this song too many times and pondering Sky Ark, I have to wonder... How common are odd pets in the transhuman future? Given the presence of space roaches, smart rats, and other GM-pets, just how far does the high end of bizarre pets go? While it's obvious that some genegineers will go to no end to get that unusual and exotic creation (Meathab, anyone?), that still doesn't explain how common they are. Now, of course, the books mention that Loonies like their animals, especially monkeys, but that's hardly the most adventurous creation I can imagine. Pet velociraptors would be roughly the size of a turkey and certainly interesting and unusual, and that's just the first and favourite that comes to mind. Personally, I think it'd do well to enhance the unusualness players feel for the setting if they encounter these sorts of things. It's one thing to meet an Uplifted Octopus, but it's another for him to have a Ping-Pong Tree Sponge on his desk and a small non-uplifted dumbo octopus that he keeps in an aquarium by his desk. A woman whose pet mouse, Biscuit, is the size of a goat. A coconut crab with white fur on its shell. An overly large and affectionate slug that glows different colours according to its mood. A group of butterflies with unusual wing patterns, possibly forming logos; living business cards. Elephants that fit in a purse. All these things and more could be used to drive home the point that mankind is no longer at the whim of nature but, instead, holds nature at its whim... But how common would they really be?