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.
Right? I’m trying to imagine a similar but even less popular one.
Maybe, “People should have to earn a PhD in Veterinary Medicine and have published post doctoral work in the particular species they keep as pets.”