Fancy a rooster? Or a frog? Or even a more conventional pet like a rabbit?
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The RSPCA has just introduced a scheme to make it easier for people to adopt a pet - it's called, sensibly enough, adoptapet.
And some of those animals are cute - cute enough to demand a fashion shoot by a top photographer.
To do them full justice, we sent Elesa Kurtz along to the animal welfare shelter in Canberra where she met - and clicked away at - Selma, Stitch and Pleakley, Dustin, Buddy, Matisse and Hastings, the Rooster.
The male chuck, two albino rabbits and a three-legged cat were among the first offerings of animals in need of a good human home.
And a tree frog found on a car windscreen in Canberra but probably a refugee from Queensland.
The frogs are turning up in Canberra in unusual numbers, according to Simon Yates from the RSPCA's animal care unit in Weston.
He reckons that they are arriving in boxes of fruit or flowers from Queensland, and then escaping into what for them is an alien territory.
The snag is that they won't survive the Canberra winter. One will soon be up for adoption, but it will only go to someone with expertise and the necessary licence.
The rooster - Hastings - was found wandering, lost in Canberra. He will need particular care. A home in suburbia is probably not good because - believe it or not- some human neighbors object to crowing.
And he has needs. "They can get very amorous," according to Simon Yates, and he needs to be kept away from other amorous roosters.
"If someone doesn't already have a rooster, that would be better. If they've got a flock of chicks, that would be great. They are very protective of the girls," the RSPCA worker said of the rooster.
There is a charge. Kittens cost from $350; puppies from $550; rats from ... $20 (which is ten dollars more than a mouse).
But the money goes to a good cause: "When you adopt your new best friend from the RSPCA, not only will you be giving a new home to an animal that really needs you, but through your support, you'll also help the RSPCA assist many more animals who might not have a chance otherwise. That's because your new animal's adoption fee goes straight back into caring for more abandoned, injured, neglected and sick animals."
If you fancy one of them, you could go to the ACT RSPCA website.