You sleep with a dog. Date a bunch of snakes. Hang around with strange birds.

You need a better (and psychosocially safer) way to channel your animal urges: Wear them.

Pade Vavra’s jewelry features animal designs handcrafted in semiprecious and precious gemstones in punchy color combos. Pretty creations include butterfly brooch/necklaces and fish pins with turquoise and garnet, serpent necklaces with emerald and ruby, and peacock double-shank rings with peridot and amethyst.

So stylish. So utterly now. The creature-friendly and the creature-averse will find them hard to resist.

So much for staying a step ahead of the herd.

Available at TG-170, 170 Ludlow Street, between Houston and Stanton Streets (212-995-8660).