<p>My roommate is talking about keeping a small lizard in our dorm room next year. I'm afraid we're going to get in big trouble and am trying to talk her out of it but she says nothing too severe will happen if she's caught. Has anybody been caught with a pet and what was the consequence?</p>
<p>I don’t really know what the consequences would be if you are caught. But I do, however, have a friend with a goldfish in her dorm room. And I have once spotted a RABBIT (Yeah, I was pretty WTH-ed) through a window in one of the suites at Saxon (the owners REALLY weren’t doing a good job at concealing it), so I guess it’s not that big a deal to have pets on campus! :)</p>
<p>bruingirl007, </p>
<p>In on-campus housing you are allowed to have goldfish but, pretty much everything else is supposedly banned. However, I did have a friend who had a hamster or gerbil (some little rodent – I can’t remember what it was) and he went a good couple of weeks before he got into trouble. The only thing that happened to him was that he was asked to get rid of it. </p>
<p>However, he was the kind of guy that liked to take it out and show it off to everybody. So, I’m sure as long as your roommate kept her lizard put away most of the time, that you would be fine.</p>
<p>Nothing severe will happen if she is caught.</p>
<p>If u get caught… It’s HER pet not YOURS lol so if you play your cards right, SHE gets in trouble not you.</p>
<p>For something like that, you get a slap on the wrist at the most. If you are really uncomfortable about her having the lizard, then you should address that with her because the situation is obviously causing you undue stress. If you don’t care, then have comfort in that her wrist will be slapped when she gets caught, not yours (you can always claim ignorance, “I didn’t know she wasn’t supposed to have a lizard!”).</p>