Yesterdays 4/5/99 Boston Globe had a column by Lou Bendrick called
Cross-Country Journal.  In it he told about a pet library in Telluride
which is run by the "Rocky Mountain Ark Wildlife Rehabilitation Center"
 
For $5 and after taking a quiz about animal care and signing a liability
waiver, the potential adoptee gets a membership card which allows them to
check out one of about 40 pets for a week.  Each comes with a book on care
a cage where appropriate and a weeks supply of food.  After 20 checkouts
they are eligible to adopt one of the pets.
 
Pets include several rabbits, turtles, a milk snake named Attila, Chainsaw
the teddy bear hamster, Gizmo the guinea pig, and a black rat named Howard
Stern.  One of the favorites is Mr. Limousine ( a stretch limo) who is said
to be 'very frisky'.
[Posted in FML issue 2639]