Ever see The movie based on the book "The Orchid Thief" with Nicholas Cage?
Anyway there is an obsessive compulsive (not pointing any Gibson Fingers) that collects orchids, when going back about his past he talks about how he collected turtles, he collected every type of turtle and finally came to "the end of turtles"
When I was a kid I collected turtles. I had a soft shell turtle (vicious turtle), painted turtles, snapping turtles and even a diamond backed terrapin-which they make turtle soup from down south. They make stinking dirty pets.
Then I had an iguana when in college, I kept him in a metal upright cloths locker in my bed room. He grew to 5' long and was never really tame as I did not handle him enough. I ended up donating him to the Cleveland zoo.
Then I owned a red legged Tarantula, that was cool, but more like owning an inanimate object-they are not big on personality!
Then once I got married and had kids the spider escaped, while at work and found him on the back of our bed head board!
I donated him to a local animal nature center, duevto my wife's prodding. You can't even get red legged Tarantulas anymore, due to them becoming endangered because of the pet trade.
Then there was cats, hermit crabs, Hamsters, African Chiclids, then last is Leopard Geckos. After that it's just dogs. No more pets, too much work.
Although I still would love to this as a pet!