Wannabefree
Little Miss Sunshine
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Ok so if you were reading my journal and found me just bear with me. I want a side business because I want my own place and my current job is not conducive to getting said thing. I want animals frankly because I'm tired of people and they're cuddly and cute...the animals, not people....in general. So I talked to a buddy who is raising feeder mice, and hedgehogs, and naked cats, and little things. Not exactly "farm" animals but they kind of have a farm too so if it's raised on a farm and it's an animal...well...ya see where that's going? Anyway, I got to thinking I don't have to muck through duck poop and goat pellets to do what I love...raise and breed animals for profit(not strictly for profit I'm not that hard up for money) and as a hobby. I have limits because of my space/time constraints, and I want something small, maybe even tiny, but not arachnid or reptilian at this time...maybe small rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils....fancy schmancy little things with pedigrees that will sell decent at shows but I can't settle on what I should get. I'm sort of a beginner with small rodent type animals besides rabbits.....maybe flying squirrels or no not ferrets they smell horrific no matter what you do. So I don't continue to ramble let me just ask, does anyone else do this? What do you have? How difficult is it to raise? What's the estimated space needed? Overhead estimate? Eventually I'd like to make this a full time gig, so would like to leave room for expansion and I do NOT want to own a pet shop. I don't want fish. I do t want anything that eats like a goat, and I don't want say English Lops that are complicated by ear issues. I want hardy, small, fuzzy, show quality, good pedigree balls of fluff and fun that people actually are interested in buying lol tall order? Maybe, but it's just an idea that's in my head to occupy my entrepreneurial spirit.
