Pet that is not an animal, bird or reptile?

[FionaFlies]

DD is buying a flat and the over lease stipulates no animals, birds or reptiles can be kept as pets.

We've always had cats and she was hoping for one there, but obviously at this stage of the purchase it's not a deal breaker.

What pet can she have that falls outside of those boundaries? Fish I suppose?

Pet rock

Stick insects

Snail

Fish

Tamagotchi ?

My 3-year old DD has a pet egg at the moment.

It's not been hard-boiled so DH and I are living in fear

This terrifying creature

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/926104089/reborn-chimp

I had a pet stick called Knobbly when I was a child. I loved him. He died when the local brat threw him into a building site 😭

Leaf insects are loads better than stick insects and don’t multiply as prolifically

An axolotl (although, of course amphibians are a type of animal)
Mine is lovely, and very interactive and sociable for an animal in a tank.

A fish, an axolotl and all the others are animals. They are all excluded. It doesn't matter what other animals are mentioned, the lease doesn't allow animals. Whoever wrote it is a idiot (housing person here) but they exclude animals. That means all of them.

Frankly who is going to check what pets your son has in his own flat?

Unless it is a dog (which could be potentially be a noise issue and would need to be walked so would be difficult to sneak past neighbours) no one is going to know if he keeps and indoor cat, has a fish tank or an iguana...

It is nobody's business what pets you have if they are not causing any nuisance to anyone in the building.

I had a cat for years in my flat and people even had dogs in our building. All our leases had some nonsense written about not keeping animals that could create a nuisance....

I refuse to have my life regulated in that nonsensical manner.

😂😂😂

A twig and pretend to yourself it's a stick insect. Alternatively, a stick insect and tell the landlord it's a twig.
Two solutions for the price of one. You're welcome.

One of these: they come in dog or cat in different colours

https://www.amazon.co.uk/JOY-FOR-ALL-C2308-Joy/dp/B017JQQ00Q/ref=sr_1_6?adgrpid=125033706164&hvadid=578372449425&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046416&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3314373890071661434&hvtargid=kwd-873101759908&hydadcr=24866_2248257&keywords=robotic%2Bdementia%2Bcat&qid=1681932385&sr=8-6&th=1

I am mostly clueless, but we have leased a flat in a complex from time to time (over the past 20 years).

I have noticed far more dog owners (previously forbidden) and commented about it. Apparently the rules changed recently.

This might be relevant:

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/can-my-landlord-prevent-me-from-keeping-a-pet/

A marimo moss ball. They like company, so maybe 2.

Apparently cosseted as 'pets' by some in Japan, and passed down after many years. The fish and I have managed to disintegrate two so far.

I had a clause like that in a leasehold flat. Swiftly realised that the corporate freeholder was never going to come round to check, and the neighbours didn’t care. Upstairs even had a dog!

That leaves a mollusc, an arthropod or a marsupial

Nope. They're all animals.

😬

How can so many posters not know what an 'animal' is?

Just what I've been wondering.

I just about get it for the first couple of times it happened but people are still suggesting animals despite the numerous posts saying that snails, stick insects, spiders etc are still animals.

It is curious. I feel like banging on about species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain.

But I won't. I will let Wikipedia do that.

lobster

My son has pet moss balls

A pet rock.

A lobster is an animal. 🤦‍♀️