Assuming time, money, living situation, and the law wasn’t a factor. I’d love a skunk. I’d name her Oreo and i’d love her and she’d be my best friend.

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    If going of imagination, I want a polar bear. Yeah they’re dangerous, but if we assume they’re pets then they’re just a giant fluff ball.

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    My cat. I left home for a bit, I come back to see she’s gone. Nobody told me or anything. I know she’s fine wherever she is, but I still miss her.

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      You don’t have to. You can train them not to spray as long as you get them as a kit. I’ve known a few people with skunks that they raised from babies that didn’t get their scent glands removed.

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        Yeah I wouldn’t descent mine. I believe it would be unethical to surgically alter them to better suit humans. I want a skunk for the lovable, smelly floofball they are.

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      You can get a dragonfly on a flexible arm that clips to your hat. Apparently it works pretty well, bugs see a dragonfly floating around your head and fuck right off.

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    I want a fully cloned megaraptor. I don’t even care if it’s trained or not.

    just release it in Florida for me when it’s done.

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    Pangolin, maybe? It’s probably as close as one could get to a pet draco vulgaris.

    Capybara are actually supposed to be already pretty cool. Some selective breeding might make them even cooler.

    Sloth could be interesting.

    There are some aquaria that would be unrealistic to own now but if there were no limits it’d be interesting to have some of the deep sea creatures.

    But also, really, if money, time, etc. were no issue, I’d probably take over an entire american state to build an enormous shelter/kennel/animal hospital/rescue centre for the lost, abandoned, unhoused, or otherwise uncared for pets of the world.

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      The post doesn’t say anything about feasibility/safety, so unless you can find dragon tamers for hire and a dragon-proof construction company, you’d likely end up dead and/or with an escaped dragon.

      Also, it was about any pet in the world, so I guess that requires dragons to exist somewhere, sounds like a gamble on if they do…

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      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.

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    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.

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      Me too. We’re having to put our little guy to sleep tonight, he’s too ill. They’re pretty sure it’s cancer, but he’s not stable enough for diagnosis let alone treatment. The poor guy’s had basically a soda can’s worth of fluid drained from his chest cavity twice in the last 2 months.

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        I’m so sorry. I hope you’re okay. I had a cat die suddenly a month ago and its been rough. Please take care of yourself.

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          My wife is hurting worse than me. He got her through the pandemic, and they really bonded. I opened the cat flap this morning and pulled out his food before I remembered he was gone. Been a tough Saturday.
          Sorry about your friend, it’s worse when they go suddenly with no warning. Sending hugs.

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        My sincerest sympathies. You can comfort yourself with the fact that you’re doing the right thing for him by ending his illness and whatever discomfort/pain there may be.

        We had to do the same with our little guy last year. He had kidney problems, and we gave him a saline drip twice a day for about a year. He never complained. But at a certain point you have to consider that you’re just prolonging their suffering, as hard as that is to accept.

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          That’s him away now. I’m just happy he wasn’t hurting yet. With the way things were going he probably would have had massive heart failure which is hardly pleasant.

          Here’s a picture of the wee man just before the vet came.

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      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.

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    • Fox (they are so cute)
    • Cheetah (pretty and pretty chill)
    • Snow Leopard (beautyful fluffy cats)