Most do not, and all too often the owners cross swords with the original landholder: a strangecreature who counts on irrigation water, operates machinery at odd hours, and offends his neighbours with smelly cattle-holding pens.
All those who saw us playing with the creature were immediately transfixed, be it due to nostalgia for Furbies gone by, or fascination with this strange new creature.
Through Reddit, I quickly discovered a popular link with adorable photos of this strange new creature that very well might have been the result of an aardvark mating with Danny DeVito.
Just as it is implausible to question the Arizona senator's Republican credentials, so it is strange to argue that Mr Bush is a creature of the far right.