A neighbour 2 blocks away had a lion until early this year. Idk what happened there and don’t wanna find out.

Had stick insects for a while. Very easy to care for. In fact kind of too easy, as the main challenge is to stop them from rapidly multiplying in number. They can also procreate asexually, just cloning themselves over and over.

Neighbor had an emu in a very suburban neighborhood. It was tall enough to look over the fence and would scare the day lights out of the local children.

I used to have 2 sugar gliders. Very high maintenance pets. They are very social and will get depressed without enough attention. They are also group animals and when you get them you adapt them to your scent as the “home tree”. This means you being gone for let’s say a vacation or something will stress them out to the extreme. Since they are basically wild animals they have a very strict diet you also need to maintain, on top of them being picky eaters, can’t really give them the same food more than 2 days in a row or they won’t eat it. They often take a bite or two of food before throwing it and going for a new piece.
All that being said they can be very fun and loving animals. They live a long time and are quite smart. Their little hands look like people’s thumbs and all and they LOVE untying knots and anything plastic that crinkles. Had them through college and had a tapestry on every wall so it was fun letting them run around the apartment free and climbing where ever. Always a good laugh when someone was over and didn’t know they were out. They would lead across the room to get back to me or the cage and seeing someone freak out as they saw something dive bombing them out of their peripheral never got old. My favorite thing about them was this demonic noise called crabbing that they make when they are scared or upset.

I have a hedgehog. He’s very easy to take care of. They naturally litter train, so cleaning up after him is super easy.