Ananova:

A couple have turned their home into a zoo.

Mark Amey and Siouxsie Gillet take animals from the RSPCA to their three-bed semi in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire. They then work at rehousing some of the animals as pets.

However, their home is ready to burst. They have thirty venomous snakes in a room with 30 deadly scorpions, while tortoises live in the dining room.

They have pigs living in the garden next to the crocodile shed.

Back inside the house are two iguanas, six tarantulas, six meerkats, owls, marmosets and more than 100 fish.

However, their hobby comes at a price. They get up at 5am every day to feed the animals and spend £40 a month just on rodents for the snakes. The crocodile is fed once a fortnight on whole dead chickens.

Siouxsie told The Sun: "We love what we do. We built this house around the animals."