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So this might sound odd and I admit it's very odd but I can't be the only terrarium enthusiast who has thought about this. This is just speculation of course since no one has ever actually seen one but considering many dinosaurs were actually small I wonder how they might have been as pets, I never said good pets but pets nonetheless, I really don't even believe there is such thing as a "good" pet since all creatures have their own unique behaviors traits and challenges for keeping. Anyway I wonder how certain dinosaurs might have fared in reptile collections, maybe on par with other large species like monitor lizards and tegus, big pythons and boas and the occasional crocodilians people have. Let's look at the compsognathus for instance. It was a small theropod (bipedal carnivore) that lived in Europe during the Jurassic period. It was roughly 3 feet long and weighed about 1-7 pounds. It would still probably need a several hundred gallon tank and might not even be able to live in a tank considering how active they probably were and might actually have to live in a specially designed enclosure. I wonder what kind of heating and lighting it would need, whether or not it would need a basking spot. Considering their relation to birds they might actually have been warm blooded so special heat lighting might not be necessary. As far as diet is concerned they ate lizards and probably small mammals and birds so you could probably easily feed them the same diet as other large reptiles, mice and rats, other rodents, chicks and anoles. I bet they would probably be snappy though and able to give a nasty bite. I'd be very curious to hear anyone's thoughts on this.