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Spiders. I have, on more than one occation, collected spiders at work to stock up on the ones that died at home.

Nice try druid

Possum. Five possum. I love them.

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

Guinea pigs. They are just the best things ever

Lemur.

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)

Snakes, as long as they aren't venomous

An orangutan and some otters.

Any animal that doesn't pose a threat?

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.

Elephant. Never met one outside the zoo, but I imagine they would be hard to say "no" to.

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.

Raven if they were going to be chill about it.

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.

Turtles. I can always trust a turtle.

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.

Crow and octopus. Both are moderately devious without being prohibitively dangerous.

bunny

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.

Literally any that isn't a human.

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.

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.

Pangolin