If you’re looking to bring a small pet home for your child or a first time pet for yourself, you should check out your local pet store’s pocket pets. You may also want to check around at local shelters to see if they have any pocket pets up for adoption as well. Pocket pets include small pets like gerbils, hamsters, and guinea pigs. Exotic pocket pets include hedgehogs, sugar gliders and ferrets. Most veterinarians that serve pocket pets are referring to the hamsters, gerbils and guinea pigs. Rabbits are occasionally included as pocket pets although they are much larger in size. When looking for a pocket pet, decide which one you want. You can view each type at the pet store and even hold them. Spend some time with one before purchasing. After purchase or adoption, click here, or schedule a first time visit with your McHenry, IL vet.