What is your ideal pet?

Pet Rock?

Exotic animals are meant to be in the wild and free. I would move to where the animals
live if I had the means and not disrupt their lives for my amusement.

So if I wanted to bond with a wild animal I would go to it… and likely be eaten.

I like my cats.

My dog is just fine for me.

labs and jacks

@AlfredaPrufrock – ditto. Wouldn’t switch my cat for the world. Has a seriously funny personality. For instance if he is in a mood with you (because he wants food and has been whining all day – even though you fed him only 2hrs before) and you pick him up he Refuses to look at you. Grouchy animal =P

But ideal pet, gotta be a Panda or a Tiger!

a kitten. :D

I love dogs. I especially love big dogs. I really, really like big, lazy dogs which is why my dog Angus is perfect for me.

If, however, you one day find out about a big, lazy dog with small, dainty poops you should immediately alert me. Thank you.

But oh how I loveeee my Sophie cat. =]

I’d love an entire zoo of animals. Elephants, big cats, giraffes, birds, farm animals, I’d love them all.

But if I could only have one animal it would be your average, domestic feline. Meow!

Oh, and let’s not forget the water animals.

@tinyfaery…A dolphin aquarium would most assuredly rock.

I would just want baby animals…baby tigers, baby bears, they are so stinking cute when they are little!

I would keep my dogs and cats but I would build elaborate dens and places for the cats to explore safely outdoors and in, and would have a huge yard with all sorts of interesting places for the dogs to enjoy. I would also hire a professional poop scooper.

Ok – so I said this question out-loud and my daughter jumped right on it… she said that the ideal pet would be a pygmy hippo, like the size of a cocker spaniel. It would be the best guard pet EVERY – they are Very territorial and they run incredibly fast but no one knows we only ever see them floating in the water. They are also pretty grumpy and would definitely go after a stranger…. but a miniature one would be Way cool and totally adorable.

I want a mule so I can participate in Mule Day.

@buster Those are some nice looking mules.

I’m going out on a limb here with my choice because you did stress in your question details any animal if your lifestyle granted you the means. This probably isn’t going to be too popular with some because it is a wild animal but I could go for having one or two tigers.

I have always thought that tigers are beautiful and majestic cats and they have always been one of my favorites in the animal kingdom. I would make sure that they have plenty of acreage to reside in and I would afford them the very best care just as I would with domesticated pets. (I have 5 cats and they are treated like royalty).

Understandably, a tiger wouldn’t be the ideal pet for obvious reasons but it would be something very special in my eyes.

I think I would want a lion. Sleek and beautiful.

@Allie Feed your large dog raw food (BARF diet). My 74 pond greyhound has scat about like a cocker spaniel. Raw food also produces regular and dry—virtually never runny. (Unless they get into something they shouldn’t.)

A winged, talking horse. A griffin. A llama. Finally, a nice dromedary.

I’d invent my own: A domestic cat about the size of a bobcat, that is furry but never sheds, has claws that never need trimming or removing but don’t scratch anything, has no need to eliminate waste so requires no litter box. Said cat would sleep with us, but not on us. Purrrrfect.

@augustlan. If you could actually breed that animal and sell it, you would be an instant millionaire. They would be a huge hit, in my opinion, and I would definitely want one. I think you just designed the quintessential, maintenance free animal. Very cool.

I lurve my kitties, but hate the cat hair everywhere and the litter box.

I think this question is particularly difficult for people who have pets they love already. It would be be like ‘What kind of kid could you have if you could have any kind of kid in the world’. My own, of course.

That said, I’m a dog person. If and when I have to choose another dog, it will be a rescue dog, just on general principle. If that rescue dog were a standard poodle, I would be delighted.

@Grisson I worked all day today at a fundraiser and adopt-a-thon for pet rescue groups. It was astonishing to me the types of animals showing up in rescue. I think a person could find any kind of dog they wanted.

I had a terrible struggle not going home with a six-month old purebred Blue Tick Coon Hound. I asked the gal how on Earth such a stunningly beautiful, mellow, friendly dog ended up in rescue. She said, “The owners had a baby!”

Thank goodness, they were not in earshot. If I were queen of the world people would be licensed to own pets not vice versa. (I just cannot imagine why no one has elected me yet.)

@Marina for president 2012.

I ideal pet is my Facebook virtual pug! Her name is Frootloop.

A heavy pet.

A juicy “teacher’s pet” ‘d be nice :)

Why Siamese Cats of course!!!

A cat that will let me make cute kittyshirthats for it and knows how to use (and flush) the toilet.

Vietnamese pot-belly pig…I miss them from my farm days and my suburb kinda looks down on them as pets :-)

Flamboyant Cuttlefish , an octopus and of course dear Vladimira

Eva Mendes

<———- I’d get a couple of cats just like this one.

I love cats, but I’m allergic. If I had that kind of money, I’d pay an allergist to fix what’s wrong with the histamine blockers or at least help me deal with it.

Hedgehogs!

Wolves.

@uberbatman
Those Flamboyant Cuttlefush are crazy looking! Their skin has rippling color stripes.

When I was a kid I had a pet rock. Remember those? Pretty lame. I don’t know what ever happened to that. Perhaps it ran away.

For a little while I had some fish. Never again. An aquarium is like a lava lamp with feces.
Did I say never again? Never again! No matter how much my nine year old begs.

I enjoyed having an aquarium. Though it can be a pain to clean.

I lovee my fish tanks :). Gotta go salt though, freshwaters boring.

i would want a well-trained yellow lab…