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Growing up, some friends had a house kangaroo. It was afraid of everyone but them. Sometimes when visiting I'd find it on the couch and it'd sorta have a low key "oh fuck people" reaction, get up and hop off.
Edit: There's a nice story of one night the old bloke saw the roo grab and drag the labrador out of the warm spot in front of the fire only to steal the spot for itself.
These people also had a donkey that was welcome in the house.
Rural Australia in the 80s.
Spiders. I have, on more than one occation, collected spiders at work to stock up on the ones that died at home.
Unbelievably based
Elephant. Never met one outside the zoo, but I imagine they would be hard to say "no" to.
But then you wouldn't be able to ignore the elephant in the room.
Raven if they were going to be chill about it.
They are not chill. They will ransack your kitchen
Spiders.
They protect my plants from gnats and hide out during the day to not disturb or frighten me. Best roommates I've ever had.
I'm down with this. I generally leave any spider smaller than a nickel remain where it's at, and the others are placed lovingly just outside the door.
I have a rule in my house. Do not kill spiders. Reason: If there is a spider, there is something I don't want in my house, it is its job to get rid of it. When the food is gone, so is the spider.
So I'm scared of spiders, but if they're chill I'm chill too. So I just let them be and they usually leave me alone. And I hate it when somebody kills a spider, just want somebody else to take the big ones outside for me :-)
Turtles. I can always trust a turtle.
It's all fun and games until they bite one of your toes
bunny
Foxes. Which is unfair, as they are basically a mixture of cats and dogs. Also sharks, though that may be hard to do. Not impossible.
I would second thought the fox. I heard their pee smells terrible.
Can confirm. The smell level is equal to the cute level.
But on the other hand....
Cat software in dog hardware?
Biologically more dog, visually and stylishly more cat. And catto firmware
Possum. Five possum. I love them.
Probably a capybara, or a cheetah. Both are rather chill animals, and cheetahs are fairly able to be domesticated (and have been multiple times throughout history) at least compared to other big cats.
Both are still a really bad idea, and the latter will probably result in injury or death. After having interacted with two Cheetahs through a rehab centre, I'd be open to try.
Ferret. They're awesome pets and blind as hell. If you see one roaming around, he's probably lost.
Nice try druid
Crow and octopus. Both are moderately devious without being prohibitively dangerous.
I'm a falconer so I've let many raptors into my home and vehicle. Birds have very sensitive lungs so I do give a lot of thought to air quality in those spaces though. No idling cars or near them for a length of time, no candles, no teflon, that kind of stuff.
miniature donkey
Had a neighbor's mini donkey escape last year and found it grazing outside our fence line. She lived in our front yard for several days while we searched for her owner. She was a Super chill animal who liked to stand inside a dog kennel we had setup.
I haven't even met her and I already love her.
Lemur.
Guinea pigs. They are just the best things ever
Secomding this. My fiancée and I have a standing rule that if we ever find an abandoned guinea pig, we're taking them in. We have spare cages and our two piggies would be more than happy to have another friend.
Our house is old. We have spiders. They're not venomous and they're pretty cool. I have to occasionally rescue them from the old farm sink downstairs.
A red panda. Sure, my cats would freak the hell out, but a red panda would quickly use their zen powers to calm them down.
I'm not letting anything in my house that's not reasonably certain to be housetrained.
I suppose if it's a short ride or in an outdoor space, anything non-venomous and between the size of a fly and a goose is cool. (Bats are honorarily venomous, because they carry hella disease)
I've put turtles in the car several times, to bring them to water. Birds, we've taken to the seabird rescue. I think that's it.
This makes the scenario seem like the exception rather than the rule, and I find this weird and disturbing.
The fact that most responses go "this one animal" as an answer instead of starting from the genus down makes me think I've either misunderstood something or we're really not on the same page here.
I don't know about you, but I don't have... any genuses on speed dial in my brain.
Personally, and it might end me one day, but almost any kinda lizard I think I'd welcome in.
Also sometimes groundhogs look like they might like a brief lift to another patch of dirt to dig around in, or I dunno, maybe a brief snack run.
Snakes, as long as they aren't venomous
Pangolin
