So when my nephews were small and we'd walk them back to our house after school for the afternoon, one time the youngest was telling us about the strange pet one of the families in the neighborhood had. They said it was a pet wolverine. This struck us as unlikely in the city limits, and we'd never seen a wolverine up close before. We had them and their group of buddies take us to the house in question, so we could view this ferocious creature. It was an armadillo. Also unlikely in Minnesota, so exotic.