If you live in an apartment, just don’t get one
Reasoning edit: pets, especially cats, will leave a smell all over furniture. Cleaning becomes an even worse chore due to the fur. They also require “house training” in order to not chew/claw/destroy most stuff that’s lying around the house.
Upvoted for the opinion being unpopular.
Cats don’t belong outside. They will kill local wildlife and have contributed to the extinction of dozens of species.
I don’t think fish care either way as long as they get the space and care they need. That is, a tiny pond outside isn’t any better than a tank of the same volume indoors, all other things being equal.
Rodents definitely belong inside, if having a rodent as a pet is allowed at all in this scenario. I feel like this doesn’t require further explanation.
I could see rabbits liking being outside, as long as they’re adequately protected from predators. They do well inside, too. I’d call this one 50:50.
If reptiles and amphibians should be kept as pets at all, indoors is way better.
I imagine almost all invertebrate pets would have to be indoors.
Pets that are livestock species go outside, yeah. No argument here.
Some animals shouldn’t be pets at all. Some belong inside. Some belong outside. Some go in and out. It’s a mixed bag.
Upvoted and upvoted. It’s weird that in c/UO, a truly extremely unpopular opinion gets downvoted!
It should be in the top few of all time!
It’s tempting, it’s really tempting. It’s easy not to downvote an unpopular opinion, but when it’s a really fucking stupid opinion as well… Ooooh I really wanna push that button.
Well, they should have a cozy barn if they’re pets. If they’re really pets, with HVAC and all.
Agreed. I generally think of “Indoors” as meaning “within the home” in this case.
I do too, but I’ve seen where some people keep their horses and would gladly move in!
Depends on the type of rabbit. Someone had the same thought as you and abandoned their pet rabbit outside where it starved to death. It was really cute, floppy and big.
Other times it is successful, eats all of the vegetation and create burrows in so many places it threatens the structural integrity of all the buildings in the area.