All species profiles
Every profile: real needs, health and the Swiss legal framework.
🐹Rodents 8 guides
The guinea pig
Sociable, chatty, the perfect first exotic pet
🐹The hamster
Solitary, nocturnal, to be respected
🐀The fancy rat
Intelligent, clean, terribly endearing
🐭The chinchilla
Exceptional coat, demanding needs
🐭The pet mouse
Lively, sociable and delicate
🐁Gerbils
Curious, clean, tireless burrowers
🐀The degu (Chilean degu)
Diurnal, gregarious, sensitive to sugar
🐿️The Siberian chipmunk
Semi-wild, lively, to be respected
🐰Lagomorphs 1 guide
🦦Carnivores 1 guide
🦜Birds 7 guides
The budgerigar
Sociable and lively, never on its own
🦜The African grey parrot
Exceptionally gifted, sensitive — a 50-year commitment
🐤The canary
A singer, hardy, a bird to start with
🦜Cockatiels
Gentle, expressive, attached to their humans
🦜Macaws
Majestic, noisy, a 50-year commitment
🦜Cockatoos
Demonstrative, sensitive, very demanding
🦜Small psittacids
Lovebirds and company: small but lively
🦎Reptiles 11 guides
The bearded dragon (Pogona)
The most accessible lizard — but not without rules
🐢The tortoise
A protected animal that will outlive you
🐍The royal python
The snake to start with — non-venomous
🦎The leopard gecko
The ideal lizard to start with — hardy and docile
🐍The corn snake
The beginner's snake above all others — non-venomous
🦎Monitor lizards
Large, powerful lizards, for experienced keepers
🐢Aquatic turtles
A long life, protected species
🐍Boids (boas, pythons)
Non-venomous constrictors
🐍Pythonids
Constrictors of the Old World
🐍Elapids (cobras, mambas)
Venomous snakes — permit compulsory
🐍Viperids
Venomous snakes — permit compulsory