Are there any pets as easy as cats?

catsareniice1

Cats are super easy pets. Are there any other pets that are just as easy? A lot of pets I'm reading about are easy but poop a LOT (rabbits, guinnea pigs, etc.)

callitcompulsive

Cats are not without certain challenges. I really don't think there's an EASY pet... they all have downsides and drawbacks, and they all make messes we need to clean up, and they all have behaviors we must try and curb... BUT all the "hassles" of pet care are so very unimportant when they come up to you and love on you just because.

I think the ease of pet care comes with experience dealing with them, nothing more. You simply get into a routine with your pet(s) and go on from there.

erollis

Agree with above post.

The easiest pet would be a small inexpensive fresh water fish in a small tank with a pump and a pirate ship. I'm not talking about cichlids (goodness I found them to be a huge pain). 

marriedonmaui

My leopard gecko is much easier than our cat and she's so fun! I've had her for 6.5 years and she's the most low-maintenance pet I've ever had. She poops on a paper towel so I just swap that out, I clean out her water dish and make sure she has clean water, and then I feed her some worms every other day. I keep the worms in the fridge so they don't turn and use tweezers to put them in her dish since after all this time I'm still a little squeamish.

Malvagia

My husband left me alone with the pets last weekend.  I forgot to feed the fish but our cat let me know when she needed to be fed and wouldn't let me forget.  In that sense I think cats are easier to take care of.  Fish die too easily.

random4180

Snake- our fourteen-year-old snake is super, super easy. Much easier than our two cats. I'd say rabbits are right up there, too, because you can get away with cleaning the cage less often than the litterbox. I've had cats, dogs, turtles, fish, snake, rabbits, and I do know as much as I loved our turtle, I am never doing that much water again, lol. (Four foot long tank is a b*tch to clean!) Our snake has been going through the same bag of bedding for a year because they're just clean animals. In the winter, ours gets fed every other week. The one drawback of having a snake who eats mice is that those get expensive (ours eats thawed mice which we have shipped in bulk from Texas about once a year.)