There will always be animals on boats, whether you want them there or not. To live on a boat means living with nature: on land in the sea and in the air. Some are friendlier than others and will make your life better. Some won’t...
Sailors over the centuries have often gone to sea with animals. As ratters or to eat, but also as pets. With wives, children and dear ones left behind, monkeys, cats, dogs and birds became the companions of those old sailors.

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00:00 You WILL get animals on your sailboat!
01:13 PETS on boats: cats, dogs (Schipperke* "Little Captain"), birds, rabbits etc
07:39 Guirec Soudée and his French Hen**
09:16 INSECTS on boats: ants, weevils, cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes etc
14:33 GECKOS on boats: Tokays (Mr T)
19:08 RATS on boats
24:06 SNAKES on boats
25:58 BIRDS and BATS on boats
33:26 FISH using sailboats as their home Remora, reef fish
35:47 You WILL get animals on your sailboat!

*Schipperke dogs are bred for living on canal boats and barges
**Guirec Soudée and his hen https://www.guirecsoudee.com/

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