As long as there are stray animals, that is the only moral choice.
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My dog Denver, who died a couple years ago. She was so awesome, my little buddy. Lived 18 great years, miss her every day.
- Fox (they are so cute)
- Cheetah (pretty and pretty chill)
- Snow Leopard (beautyful fluffy cats)
Dragon. And anyone who says otherwise isn’t being completely honest with themselves. Everyone wants a dragon.
Can I have a dog-sized dragon? Smaug would not fit in our living room and our budget can't manage dozens of sheeps every week.
What about an aboleth or a tarrasque? Either one would be pretty cool.
Hells, I'd take a flumph.
Capybara. Self-explanatory. It'd chill with me and my dogs.
Some kind of a wild cat like Ocelot would be cool assuming they could behave themselves but since they can't, a normal house cat is just fine too.
Penguin. No reason required.
Approve.
Evangelion fan located
Can I have a pet human or is that too problematic?
Is this some consensual sex thing? If so, will you care for them and love them?
On the advice of my legal counsel, I am choosing to invoke my fifth amendment rights.
In that case, yes it's problematic.
I'd have my cat. If the devil came acallin' I'd sell my soul for me and the lil guy to be immortal. I could spend eternity in his company and it wouldn't be enough.
I, also, choose this guy's cat.
That's so cute.
You haven't considered the horrific things that would undoubtedly happen, especially given infinite time, if you were to follow through on that sale.
For the sake of good taste and sanity, I won't list any here, but I'm sure your imagination can fill in the gap.
A binturong. They have a fluffy prehensile tail as long as their body and they smell like popcorn!
I have answered this the same way every time I've been asked:
A great big fuck-off raven.
Red panda. I'm disappointed that I was the first comment for one
I want an emu. Specifically, I want to hand-rear one from the egg.
I've done this with chickens and ducks and loved it. Emus are basically just giant chickens anyway.
A common magpie, specially if it can come and go as it pleases and I don't have to do much.
Tanuki
My previous cat from childhood until me early twenties and a Savannah cat.
Assuming time... wasn't a factor
T-Rex
Even though I don't really want to get a pet because I don't want to get too attached and end up heartbroken when it dies! If I ever change my mind, I'd get a dog. I also really like owls in general, but I don't want to get a bird just to keep it locked in a cage for the rest of its life just because I want to feel like Harry Potter lol!
Get a Galápagos tortoise. Problèmes solved.
Sonmething with fingers like a monkey, a raccoon or a midget bear. Or even a crow
i'd like a parrot or toucan if it had enough freedom. Unfortunately I don't think you can let them fly around by themselves without them leaving you forever or becoming an invasive species. Very region dependant pet.
Honestly gotta have cats though. They're so much fun and they take good care of themselves. I would similarly only have a cat if i had a big garden for it
A human. But not in a way that they have any subjectivity. An illiterate, docile, and subservient human being that looks exactly like me and does what it is told to do.
I knew somebody would use this scenario to bring back slavery.
Do you want to volunteer?
Is there going to be creepy sex slave responsibilities?
Because I'm out if there's not going to be any sex slave stuff.
Not into it, sorry. Maybe a few sex-related requests per year when I'm super horny
Good luck finding your slave. I just don't think we're going to be a good match.
A cat, because I love cats. But I live in the city, I think it's not appropriate for a cat to only live inside an apartment, and you can't avoid buying meat for feeding the cat.
cats should not let be free roaming though... It's dangerous for them and the wildlife.
Roaming free is dangerous to all wildlife.
Seems as both are bad options?
It's dangerous for... the wildlife.
That's very location specific, and doesn't apply to most of the world.
Outdoor domestic cats and wildlife: How to overrate and misinterpret field data
That's not really a study at all. That's just somebody referring to an actual published study and saying "I don't think so".
It's more someone referring to a published study and pointing out that every single one of the news articles written about it are misrepresenting its findings.