From a Manhattan goat to an over-friendly hyena: the unusual pets people keep

[caption id=“attachment_2181909” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  Christophe Lutz walks Marcel, a 30 month-old pig-wild boar crossbreed in the small village of Kolbsheim near Strasbourg, August 10, 2012. Marcel, an offspring of a sow and a wild boar, was raised by Christophe and his wife Chloe when he was 3 months-old, and neglected by its mother. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181913” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  Zukhro, an employee of the city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, on the territory of the zoo in the capital Dushanbe, January 20, 2011. Employees take the lion from its cage to have a promenade along the territory two times a week while holding a piece of meat to attract Vadik’s attention so it walks nearby. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181915” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A man carries his pet iguana on his shoulder during the 2010 “Love Animal Day” pet carnival in Taipei April 24, 2010. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181917” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A man poses with a hyena along a street in Lagos, November 4, 2008. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181919” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A contestant skis with his pet duck during a skiing with pets competition at a ski resort in Sanmenxia, Henan province, January 12, 2014. Picture taken January 12, 2014. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181921” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa take a taxi ride in New York, April 7, 2012. Cocoa is a 3-year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with its owner Fakroddin in Summit, New Jersey. They frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the city. Fakroddin raised Cocoa since she was 2 months old and treats her like a human. “She doesn’t like goats, she doesn’t like farms, she likes the people and the city.” Fakroddin said. Picture taken April 7, 2012. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181923” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A three-year old llama ‘Socke’ lies in a dining room in the western town of Muelheim January 14, 2009. ‘Socke’ lives in the house of her owner Nicole Doepper since its birth, when it was injured by other animals and had a leg amputated. The district veterinary office of Muelheim announced on Thursday to search an adequate animal husbandry for the llama. Picture taken January 14, 2009. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181925” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A man pulls his camel as he sits in an auto rickshaw during a dust storm in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 29, 2015. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181927” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  The grandson of Palestinian refugee Saad Eldeen Al-Jamal watches as his grandfather sits with his African two lion cubs outside his house at Al-Shabora refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip March 19, 2015. Al-Jamal has eventually achieved his dream of raising lions at home after acquiring the two cubs, whose parents are believed to have been smuggled into Gaza through a tunnel along the border with Egypt nearly three years ago. His family has named the female cub Mona, an Arab name, while the male lion was named Alex. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181929” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A boy rests his pet pigeon on his head as he plays with it in a slum in Mumbai April 28, 2014. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181931” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A man reads a book as his pony waits nearby, in central of Slaviansk April 26, 2014. REUTERS[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2181933” align=“aligncenter” width=“940”]  A pet bear sits among residents who escaped to higher ground from their flooded village in the Tando Allahyar district of Pakistan’s Sindh province September 15, 2011. This year, floods have destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres (1.8 million hectares) since late last month, officials and Western aid groups say. More than 300,000 people have been made homeless and over 200 have been reported killed. REUTERS[/caption]