Most people might opt for a pet dog or rabbit, but one French couple have done things slightly differently, reports Metro.
For the past 18 years Pierre and Eliane Thivillon have been living with a gorilla called Digit.
When she first came to them as a baby, the gorilla weighed just four pounds and six ounces.
Now, obviously, she is slightly larger not that she still doesn’t turn to her adoptive parents for help picking food from her teeth or pulling a splinter from her hand.
While Digit was growing up the couple could not leave her on her own, meaning they didn’t go out for 13 years.
Also, Pierre and Eliane, who live near Lyon, run a private zoo so they kind of know what they are doing.
"We cannot leave Digit overnight with anyone else, which means we haven’t be able to go out for 13 years," Pierre said a few years ago.
"We haven’t had a holiday, or a night away. We haven’t been to the cinema, the theatre, or out for dinner. It would make Digit sad if we weren’t here, and if she is sad we are, too."