I grew up in a very rural small town. We had pigs, rabbits, cows, chickens and all that. In elementary school we all got a baby duck for some reason and I raised mine to duck-adulthood. His names was Waddles and he'd fly all around town, but always came back home to us.
Now we've been through the gamut with a ball python, ferrets, cats, dogs, leopard gecko and a rabbit.