If you could have any animal as a pet, real or imaginary

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What would you have?

Even if logically you can’t have it

For me

Real:- I would love a fox and one day I’m determined to have one

Imaginary:- a miniature elephant sounds cool. Like a Jack Russell used elephant!

a tanuki or 3 for sure , they are gorgeous i love them so much , i follow a japanese you tuber who has one as a pet and its beyond adorable and im so jealous

Gigantic eagle, which would fly me to mythical places, as in Chaucer's The House of Fame. Or more boringly, a lovely dog that doesn't smell of dog.

Tiger and Koala Bear!

Falkor from the Neverending Story.
And the black stallion from The Black Stallion.
I'm a child of the 80s 😊

Otter definitely.

Well i have my dogs which are the pets ive always wanted.

I would dearly love a cat but my DP is allergic and my dogs would not be good with it.

On the fantasy side - a hippogryph if course

If it was like a special one that wouldn't eat me etc then a big fat furry tiger.

Have you seen how deep their fur is?!!! 😍👌

Dragon, ideally a nightfury. Willing to go live on a nordic archipelago to achieve this.

I’ve never heard of a tanuki....must go investigate

And yes to a night fury!

Oooooh a Japanese raccoon dog!

I have heard of them

Tapir.
Or cat

There was a fieldmouse on Countryfile last night - I'm not an animal person at all, but I did think, awww!

I’ve had fieldmice/harvest mice as pets!

They are so tiny but too quick to handle

Very much a look but don’t touch pet

A sloth. I never would but I just think they are so adorable. Maybe if I win the lottery I could buy a large plot of forest in South or Central American and have a sloth sanctuary there.

I have to break the thread rules and say Yorek Byrnison, the pansebjorn from Pullman's "His Dark Materials", so not a pet.

Tapir or capybara, both are possible with space and money
Oh and a quokka

Completely impossible, polar bear

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I’ve never heard of a tanuki....must go investigate

And yes to a night fury!

go on you tube and type in lives with a tanuki , his page comes up straight away , the title is in japanese so you will recognise it ,

A cat, or two. DD is horribly allergic to cats, so it isn't going to happen, sadly. I adore cats.

I’d have a quokka too

Meerkat and a baby dragon that stays a baby please

I can't narrow it down... 15 yo & I have our 'dream house' it is amazing! Swings & trampoline inside. Inside & outside swimming pools etc and it may be easier to build it inside a zoo as we have so many animals. 😂. Just need the lottery win!!

I can't narrow it down.

A well trained velociraptor.

If it came with Chris Pratt then that would be an added bonus.

A unicorn.

Sea Turtle. Just give me all the turtles . Oh and maybe a pig but I'd have to get a license to walk one of them!