What are the best pets that are NOT dogs or cats?
>hard mode: no based rats

Budgies and Cockatiels.

>>5007203
birds on principle should not be kept as pets

Guinea pigs. They can't climb so they're easy to contain; they're happy to eat veggie scraps, hay, and pellets; you can make cages out of old fleece and towels; and they're super fun little happy potatoes.

fox

Turkeys.

>>5007209
how good are the domesticated foxes now? do they still piss all over everything?

Domesticated ungulates

>>5007211
Probably, keep them in outdoor enclosure

unironically cows are good pets and like to play and be silly
too bad they exist solely to be killed and eaten but whatever

>>5007201 (OP)
what the hell are based rats?

>>5007218
rats. they're based and make amazing pets. shame about the lifespan though because you'll end up loving them so much then BAM they pass away
a rat with a longer lifespan would be the GOAT pet

Beetles. Hardy, docile, interesting behaviors, and practically infinite variety.

>>5007220
>BAM they piss on you
ftfy

>>5007279
Hmm

>>5007201 (OP)
whales

>>5007271
They're also good doctors

>>5007201 (OP)
humans

>>5007201 (OP)
Domestic pigs are basically dogs.

>>5007201 (OP)
For outdoor pets geese. Extremely loyal and very hardy.
For indoor-outdoor pigeons/doves. Just very funny and loving birds.
For indoor exclusively finches/sparrows they have a lot of personality for birds that aren't very smart and their antics are entertaining can keep a flock of them in a relatively small space as long as they have room to fly and time outside the cage to do it.

I like tortoises but they require a specific climate.
I like bunnies but they require constant supervision.
Ferrets sleep so much and they're independent naturally so they're probably good as domesticated pets for someone who works. Since they'll be asleep in the normal workday but awake in the morning and evening when you're home.

>>5007201 (OP)
doves/pigeons

>>5007217
Nice try, cow.