What pet would you strongly not recommend?
10.06.2025 02:12
All pets are “difficult”. Some are just crazy, like the first group.
Getting a pet is a lot of work, you are inviting an animal into your house and promise to protect it and play with it. You have to honor your part of the deal. Else, why did you get a pet?
Anything exotic. Spiders, snakes, animals that were obviously smuggled into the country.
But in short. They have feelings, deep empathy, caring and their emotions are far more complicated than we can fathom.
Next group is animals that live for a very long time, like turtles and parrots. Parrots live almost human length of time, Turtles can easily get to be well above 100 years old. You need to have made sure there is a passover of ownership as your pet will outlive you by a considerable margin.
They need a lot of attention and to be stimulated.
I recommend cats, easy to play with them, comb them and cuddle. They mostly take care of themselves. But they are also needy. They need you. They need dinner at the same time. They need routines.
Do you like to watch TV after work? You might want to reconsider getting a pet.
But that goes for all animals. All dogs need to be walked, once a day in all weather. They need to solve puzzles and learn new things all the time. It is different between breeds.
Also with larger parrots, they are highly social animals and don’t take well being along or if they had a friend or a crush earlier on, they take seperation extremely badly and will pull their feathers and get infected. They are also destroyers of home furniture like you would not believe, plus they are poop machines and just poop all over, with feahers all over the place. They will escape through the first open window they see. They are very smart but not that smart, just they want freedom. They will probably never come back. I have heard of a few stories about them coming back but the other end is far more likely.
I have a cat today and he has taken by my daughters. When my older daughter who is now grown up started to not come home every day, the cat was making all sorts of sounds and walked into every room of the house searching for her like a parent who has lost their kid, I am not kidding. He is now used to this, he knows she comes back. But when my younger one starts this or boh decide to go to a university in another country which I think is highly likely. The cat will be completely destroyed, that is my fear, so I try to pick up the slack but since we both compete for the women in the house, in his mind, he doesn’t care that much about me, I am competiton unless he is hungry. He has his moments where he is kissing up to me, but it is only few times and far between. He might decide to cozy up to my wife.
Hamsters, rats, mice and other rodents are great pets, rats especially. They are also quite dependent on you to clean them, feed them and talk to them.