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Show Strange Petfellows Nearly everybody, with a feiv exceptions, likes a dog or a cat of their own. Others favor canaries or guppies or goldfish. Then there are still others who go in for the most unusual pets, and it is with these that the following series of photos deals. The animals and birds here shown are not out of the ordinary. All are natives of the United States, with the exception of the leopard. However, it is distinctly unusual to find them in pet roles. t f rw - r f V'- - - ft A Ifl Meet Pete , . . Everyone in Barnegat, N. J., knows Pete, the pet of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beckett. Mr. Beckett found Pete, an abandoned baby, in the nearby woods. He was brought up on a bottle. The deer is shown here on his iaily shopping tour. Ml -4 Wisdom comes to roost onlhe stem of Charles Kornets pipe Kornet found this owl in Bronx park, N. Y. Freckled (and how!) Jack Wilson Wil-son of Pittsburgh has a pet raven, whose "peck" is quite painful ai we see from this picture. I - , . , f t. I I ass- . Y - Liffe Nancy Feller's pride and joy is the duck with which she is shown here. She raised it from an egg and the duck is fond of her. IL$' ?; - , p. yf- fx-.- Mrs, Arthur Myeland of Chi' cago created quite a stir in Miami Mi-ami when she appeared on the beach with a pet bear. A leopard is the pet of Mrs. Linton W ells, wife of the explorer and writer. "Miss 'Snooks' has her own room, and is quite frisky ; i' v -it, - s f - ' ' ' ' " ' ' ' i v . |