My kids are begging for a pet. I want low maintenance, but also fun. No fur please my allergies can't handle it. Lol

My son has a Hermann's Tortoise - they live about 50 years.

It's just like having a dog, but playing fetch takes a really long time.

XD

Naked mole rat

How about no. Lol

Hmm... generally, furry pets tended to be more fun than most animals; but ones that do not have fur are commonly require the least maintenance... as far as I know. You don't have to brush or walk a snake, a frog, or a bird for example. But, neither can you play as much as you could with dogs and cats.

A bird would the most fun but not the least taxing; a Parakeet, a Parrot (if you can afford it).

A snake would also be fun but not as fun. Still, its fun to feed it, and you get to hold it.

A lizard might offer the same benefit, but I don't know if it will escape from your hand. the best one would be the larger if you're concerned about it escaping.

A frog or a toad is also fun to feed, but you might have to worry about jumping from your hand (perhaps not so much with a toad, but if it does, it's not that hard to catch).

Fishes are fun to feed and watch, but you do must periodically clean the tank or bowl (but there is a type of fish that feeds on plankton).

But if your kids insist on furry pets and no other, here's a site you can read:

https://learn.allergyandair.com/pets-for-allergy-sufferers/

Wow, thanks for that very thorough reply!

oh and kate you could just buy a tortoise they are chill, nice and slow and all they eat is grass and that's a way to save money but make sure to not let anybody steal it

I was actually thinking tortoise!

oh and your kids can ride the tortoise

nice

and yet i have 170 snakes

Impressive. Yea I'm not getting a snake.

and i have 2 geckos

and a dog

Do you own a zoo or something?

no

Nice. A lot of people down in SE Texas and Louisiana have snakes

Dog

get a chicken or two. they can be sort of fun for your kids, they are not very high maintenance, and they produce eggs.

Well. I was thinking more along the lines of like a pet snail they could keep in a little tank in their room. My house is chaotic enough with 4 kids but adding 2 chickens? Lol but we do plan on getting chickens in the spring to keep outdoors.

i meant outside.

Get a greasy at - a Sphinx

As a bonus, you'll have to get the naked kitty clothes for winter, and t-shirts for summer (so they don't get a sunburn.

Actually kinda cute. But i'm just not a cat person. We'll probably end up getting a dog down the road.

My first pet was a hamster. Her name was Icarus. My friends brought their hamsters over to play, she had 5 babies a few weeks after that. So strange I thought. Mom said no more hamster playdates.

I had 3 hamsters, 3 of them, they were named: Caramel, Cookie and Cream. Cream was actually a male, he was mistaken as a female. And that resulted in chaos. We put 3 of them in the same cage, Cookie and Cream always fought with each other, we had no idea why. Until a few months later, some pet shop guy said he was apparently a male, and explains the reason why Cookie and Cream are always fighting, it was because they wanted to mate with Caramel (the female). We eventually put Cookie into another cage because he's scared of Cream. Cream and Caramel eventually had babies, and 5 of them. They were later named as ''Cocoa'', he was a black one, Cupcake (one that got attacked a lot), Chai (ignore the weird name) Coffee and Cinno.

Cupcake had to be separated because he was the ''bullied'' one.

At the end, all of them died :( of course. But the most unexpected thing was that the mother of the babies (Caramel) lived the longest.

And not forgetting the OG VIP one, Furball, he was our first and beloved hamster. RIP.

Hamsters drink coffee!

My daughter had these.
https://i.imgflip.com/5plg4a.jpg

Dog
Easy to take care of

Dog or fish

You’re not really leaving me with many options. All the most fun pets have fur.

Some sloths are very high maintenance;)

Yea, my kids aren't quite at the point where they can independently care for a pet so i'm looking for something they can't lose, has a low likelihood of escaping, easy to care for, and easy on our allergies. We've graduated from caterpillar to slugs maybe a dog will be in our future.

Canaries are a good idea, low maintenance, all you have to do is feed them, give them water, vegetables, and a cuttlebone. You also have to clean the cage. But if you get more than one they keep each other company. :)

Turtle, Fish, or Dog

any reptile would be a nice fit for y'all

You could get a frog or a turtle their pretty low maintenance and not as expensive to take care of and it could teach them responsibility when they clean up the tank as needed and feed the animal

bird.

A pet with no fur, huh?
I guess a fish, it will teach them responsibility but I can tell ya this.
They will get bored of it easily-

Yea you can't really play with a fish but they make great first pets.

It IS possible to play with fish. You can teach them to swim through hoops.

I mean.
I hate to the meme seriously.
But yeah, sure.
Actually get them a shark and maybe things will get interesting

Could be an incentive anyway ;)

I'm not sure what the word "Incentive" even means-

When the kids misbehave, it's time to feed their pet!

snek

My mom is allergic to cats so we couldn't get one of those, and my apartment complex charges extra rent for large pets, so I recommend something that is kept in a humid terrarium like a turtle or chameleon, or what I have which is a dwarf hampster (Her name is Angelica Schuyler)

Also, I rarely have to replace her food and water because she's super small, and she also stores a lot of food in tunnels she made in the bedding.
The bedding is for digging tunnels, and you have to change it every 2-3 months, but try to use a similar bedding every time, if you change a hampster's environment too much at once when you let them back in, their heartbeat elevates and they have a panic attack, which can sometimes be fatal. If you want to get it a companion, make sure they are siblings or have had conditioning training with each other, or else they will eat each other. (I'm not making this up, this actually happens)
If you get some Himalayan salt rocks to put in the cage, they will use them to file down their teeth which never stop growing. Also NEVER bathe them, in most cases they will die of shock if you try to do so. Hampsters are already very clean animals, but if you want to raise their happiness and cleanliness, you can get them a sand bath, which is a container they can enter and exit with sand in it, and they bathe in the sand. Reptile or chinchilla sand works.
Warning: They have very strong jaws and if you piss them off they will bite, but mine has only been in that mood twice in the 6 months we've had her, and it usually happens while she's in heat. (Hampster menstrual cycle)
I hope this information is helpful! :D