Mail Online, 21 June 2013.
Finding an eight-stone (112 pound) rodent on the couch would see most people racing for the phone to dial pest control.
But it's a daily occurrence for Melanie Typaldos, 57 and her husband Richard Loveman, 54, who share their home in Buda, Texas, with a giant capybara named Gary.
Ms Typaldos adopted Gary after falling in love with the semi-aquatic mammals - the world's largest rodent - during a holiday in Venezuela, and she and her husband are so fond of their bizarre pet they even let him sleep in their bed.
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Finding an eight-stone (112 pound) rodent on the couch would see most people racing for the phone to dial pest control.
But it's a daily occurrence for Melanie Typaldos, 57 and her husband Richard Loveman, 54, who share their home in Buda, Texas, with a giant capybara named Gary.
Ms Typaldos adopted Gary after falling in love with the semi-aquatic mammals - the world's largest rodent - during a holiday in Venezuela, and she and her husband are so fond of their bizarre pet they even let him sleep in their bed.
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'I can't imagine life without him': Melanie Typaldos and her husband Richard Loveman make room on the couch for their pet - an eight-stone capybara named Gary
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