What is your ultimate dream pet?

[Soubriquet]

Doesn’t have to be one that can be domesticated. It can be literally any animal

My dream would be a fennec fox. I know people keep them as pets sometimes, but it wouldn’t be ideal whilst I’m in rented accommodation. Plus they are very pricey and require a lot of special attention and needs.

My other dream pet is a sphinx cat but my dh can’t stand them. He hates naked cats

A kunekune pig, if I had enough land (although some people have house pigs, apparently because they’re so clever they’re easy to house train like dogs). I don’t have a big enough house!

I saw a pet otter on Instagram, it was incredibly cute and played with the owner’s husky but I agree most animals shouldn’t be pets. I have dogs, and I love them, but there’s so much backyard breeding and mistreatment that I’d support much tougher restrictions on animal keeping. Generally I think ones that are rescued or ethically bred and easily adapt to domestic living are ok. I used to want a chameleon but they have such complex needs I wouldn’t do it. I would like a bearded dragon though, a chinchilla, perhaps some rats, a Samoyed…maybe one day if I win the lottery and can buy an entire field.

On the fantasy/impossible pet list, agree capybaras are amazing! They look so chilled and zen. A sloth, or maybe a friendly seal. I actually applied for a job seal-weighing in the Antarctic once, I didn’t get it (gutted)

A dairy cow 🐄

A tiger.

Not as a pet as such, more as a familiar who would appear when hailed to smite my foes before disappearing into the night.

I read the book Corvus: A Life With Birds a while ago about life with a rescued rook (amongst others).

I read that too! I remember one dancing the plaster around the skirting board making places it could stash food. Let's face it - are there any pets that don't bring joy and grief in equal measure?

miniature donkey

I have an Imaginary Giraffe who leads a gang of Pygmy Hippos to Smite & Wreak Vengeance. In Stomping Boots. Or Tap Shoes. Or Jig Shoes.

And I also have my cats, one of whom is - very politely, in-between purrs - suggesting it might perhaps be lunchtime, so I should probably go & feed them…

But, but, but all the Instagram videos ... ? 😜

I should have been a bit more specific in my post that I was very much commenting on a fantasy/dream/daemon kind of pet. I definitely do not want any wild animal as a pet in real life!

I really want a rescue racehorse. They don’t have to be perfect but they would ideally have the loving disposition of my very neurotic but super affectionate and sweet late part-bred Connemara. I love the idea that I could show an animal that’s always been treated as a machine that they’re safe and loved now, we could overcome challenges together and build each others’ confidence up!

If it’s a wild animal, I’d take an elephant. Super intelligent and loyal.

A unicorn

A couple of sloths. I'd love to look out the window and see two sleeping on the silver birch in my neighbour's garden (I am sure they wouldn't mind).

I’ve got him. My Labrador. He’s perfect and I dread the day something happens to him.

My cat, with a few modifications:

• fully tolerant of being groomed and washed, so I could look after her without physical damage to me
• Able to communicate a variety of wishes rather than just NEED NOW!
• it would be handy to be able to temporarily convert her to a dog or child, so we could take her places
• if she could hygienically dispose of the corpses she generates, that would be nice too.

Several Newfounlands or Leonbergers. I'm slowly convincing DH through the medium of cute dog videos.

Camels. I want a dairy camel herd, each camel can give 4,000 litres of milk per year and thats the equivalent of 5 good dairy cows. I will sit on a sofa carved from a single block of cheese.

A donkey. I’d call it O.T (donkey O.T geddit?😁). I imagine us going about our daily business a bit like shrek and donkey, and he’d go down a storm at the grandkids nativity play.

To all those saying pandas....the videos I watch remind me so much of my three year old - so, while you can only have a panda in Fantasyland, in RealityLand dress a toddler in a panda costume and hey presto.

In my FantastyLand I'd have several Bernese Mountain Dogs, a couple of elephants and some capybaras.

Safe choice: highland cow. Better choice: a bison

Safe choice: some sort of Maine coon mix. Better choice: one of those fat looking, grey wildcats from Europe or wherever it is

A talking unicorn. But if we're talking real animals, maybe a raccoon. One that talks. ;)

In the meantime, our two current cats fit the bill very nicely. (Anyone who thinks cats can't communicate what they want and when they're annoyed has never met our two....)

evtheria
Get the bison, you can ride them.

A baby elephant that stayed a baby forever 😂
I love seeing videos of them, they’re cute, playful and clumsy - just like my dc when they were small i suppose!
OBVIOUSLY I would never acquire such a pet but in my dream world I’d have a few just to watch them continuously.

Donkeys
unicorns
sloths
capybaras
skunks
guinea pigs
raccoons
kangaroos
big fluffy dogs
more chihuahuas
big fluffy cats
large bunnies

I pick my 4 piggies.

A big fat alligator 🐊 In fantasy land it would not try to eat me or anyone else and wouldn't mind the rubbish UK climate.

Meerkat
Squirrel
Cheetah

10000000000000000000000000 cats