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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.

Pangolin

Raven if they were going to be chill about it.

baby raccoon.

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.

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.

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.

Guppies and similar fish.

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

A bee

Literally any that isn't a human.

All the cats around us are mostly feral and won't even come close. Letting them in would result in piss, shit, and marking everywhere. I happily try to feed them some treats here and there, but no way they're coming inside the house.

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.

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.

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.

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