Growing up, some friends had a house kangaroo. It was afraid of everyone but them. Sometimes when visiting I’d find it on the couch and it’d sorta have a low key “oh fuck people” reaction, get up and hop off.
Edit: There’s a nice story of one night the old bloke saw the roo grab and drag the labrador out of the warm spot in front of the fire only to steal the spot for itself.
These people also had a donkey that was welcome in the house.
Rural Australia in the 80s.
Elephant. Never met one outside the zoo, but I imagine they would be hard to say “no” to.
But then you wouldn’t be able to ignore the elephant in the room.
How would you get em in the house tho?
First thing to do is open the door.
Second step is to take the giraffe out.
Hey, someone got it
Yes. My other comment option would have been something about the footprints in the butter…
Then get on the floor
EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR!
Sorry, I got excited that no one else said it yet.
No no no, use the gate.
- Step 1: open door
- Step 2: ???
- Step 3: die
Raven if they were going to be chill about it.
They are not chill. They will ransack your kitchen
Spiders.
They protect my plants from gnats and hide out during the day to not disturb or frighten me. Best roommates I’ve ever had.
I’m down with this. I generally leave any spider smaller than a nickel remain where it’s at, and the others are placed lovingly just outside the door.
I have a rule in my house. Do not kill spiders. Reason: If there is a spider, there is something I don’t want in my house, it is its job to get rid of it. When the food is gone, so is the spider.
So I’m scared of spiders, but if they’re chill I’m chill too. So I just let them be and they usually leave me alone. And I hate it when somebody kills a spider, just want somebody else to take the big ones outside for me :-)
Turtles. I can always trust a turtle.
It’s all fun and games until they bite one of your toes
Foxes. Which is unfair, as they are basically a mixture of cats and dogs. Also sharks, though that may be hard to do. Not impossible.
Cat software in dog hardware?
Biologically more dog, visually and stylishly more cat. And catto firmware
That’s greyhounds.
That’s a Shiba Inu. I know because I have 2 and our previous passed at age 13.
I would second thought the fox. I heard their pee smells terrible.
Can confirm. The smell level is equal to the cute level.
But on the other hand…
Cruising on a boat, spot a shark fin, “Hey pal want a tow?” Or if the boat has some kinda bay, “Flop aboard for a ride sharko!”
Or just put a sign up - “Free snoot boops”
American Dad…
Probably a capybara, or a cheetah. Both are rather chill animals, and cheetahs are fairly able to be domesticated (and have been multiple times throughout history) at least compared to other big cats.
Both are still a really bad idea, and the latter will probably result in injury or death. After having interacted with two Cheetahs through a rehab centre, I’d be open to try.
Both are rather chill animals,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItix3t1bO4
That video kind of gave the impression that a cheetah might go from being apparently pretty chill to being an asshole pretty unexpectedly.
To be fair, “domesticated” cats are as well and no doubt to the same degree. It’s just that due to their size they’re not in a position to do much to you.
I certainly get randomly attacked by my cats whenever they get a bee in their bonnet, or want something, or are bored, or because it’s Tuesday, etc. The rest of the time they’re chill.
If house cats were the size of a Rottweiler we wouldn’t allow them in our houses.
I like how casual her “ow” sounded when being mauled by a cheetah
I heard cheetahs aren’t technically big cats because they can’t roar
Ferret. They’re awesome pets and blind as hell. If you see one roaming around, he’s probably lost.
They’re amazing pets if you have the time/energy. I recently went into an apartment whose owner had three pet ferrets. Cute little guys but he did not clean them well enough.
I’d love to get them again but I wouldn’t be able to spend the time for play/exercise.
Crow and octopus. Both are moderately devious without being prohibitively dangerous.
Second both of these answers. If I was incredibly wealthy the first thing I would do is have an octopus pet.
Crows or ravens are so cool!
Spiders. I have, on more than one occation, collected spiders at work to stock up on the ones that died at home.
Unbelievably based
bunny
Our house is old. We have spiders. They’re not venomous and they’re pretty cool. I have to occasionally rescue them from the old farm sink downstairs.
A red panda. Sure, my cats would freak the hell out, but a red panda would quickly use their zen powers to calm them down.
They have an incredible smell.
Good or bad?
Clearly bad IMO, but I won’t shame you for your preferences.
Literally any that isn’t a human.
Hello, alligator!
This makes the scenario seem like the exception rather than the rule, and I find this weird and disturbing.
The fact that most responses go “this one animal” as an answer instead of starting from the genus down makes me think I’ve either misunderstood something or we’re really not on the same page here.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t have… any genuses on speed dial in my brain.
