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Here's a quote from
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, page 58 (American paperback).
It's when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are walking into a wizard's pet store in Diagon Alley.
[i]A pair of enormous purple toads sat gulping wetly and feasting on dead blowflies. A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. Poisonous orange snails were oozing slowly up the side of their glass tank, and a fat white rabbit kept changing into a silk to hat and back again with a loud popping noise. There were cats of every color, a noisy cage of ravens,
a basket of funny custard-colored furballs that were humming loudly, and on the counter, a vast cage of sleek black rats that werer playing some sort of skipping game using their long, bald tails.