I am a huge bug fan :^) so i keep some of them in my room as pets... as for around town i don't know. I had flick make an atlas moth model for me and it's big enough that it looks great in front of my museum entrance so I'm going to make more models of bugs to display
my entire basement is snapping turtles. i felt kinda bad selling them because i liked them so much, and i just ended up collecting them all there. i also have a whale shark on display near the front and an emperor buttefly model by my house!
I have two snapping turtles placed in a river/pond/moat on either side of a three leveled terraformed "mountain" with a fountain on top. I like it, though it's really plain at the moment. I want to make it look more natural.
Anyway, I think snapping turtles add character to the island.
I think the pet store concept is adorable! I'd love to see that.
I have a snapping turtle in my house as my pet (his name is bowser), and another that's a fortune turtle on my boardwalk area (saw the original screenshot on twitter).
Besides those two, I'll probably be putting some butterfly models around the little fairy garden I have, and maybe putting a fish on my dock.
I'm collecting bees. They'll go in my basement. It'll be my beesment. Yes, that is the only reason I am making a bee themed room. No, I won't regret it.