Kitsune
S Tier
Fruit-Stealing Pet
Right now, the best pet in Grow a Garden. It can apply a Chakra Mutation (12x value) to a fruit from a nearby garden, or even a Foxfire Chakra (90x value), and give it to you.
Dragonfly
S Tier
Variant Pet
Gives a guaranteed Gold plant every five minutes (worth 20x more). It’s hard to say no to that.
Disco Bee
S Tier
Mutation Pet
Activates the Disco mutation on crops (125x value) nearly every 20 minutes, with a 12.28% chance each time.
Raccoon
S Tier
Fruit-Stealing Pet
Gives free fruit every 15 minutes by cloning one from a neighbor’s garden.
Mimic Octopus
S Tier
Ability Cloner
Mimics the ability of an active pet. Best when paired with other S-tier animals.
Butterfly
S Tier
Variant Pet
Applies Rainbow mutation (50x) to plants with five mutations every 30 minutes (skips favorited ones).
Spinosaurus
S Tier
Mutation Pet
Eats one mutation from four plants and puts them all on a single fruit, preferring to bless one of your favorited plants.
T-Rex
S Tier
Mutation Pet
Eats a mutation from a random fruit grown on your farmland and then pours it onto three to four different fruits.
Fennec Fox
S Tier
Mutation Pet
Copies a random mutation from your neighbor’s garden and triggers it on one of your crops.
Brontosaurus
S Tier
Size Booster
It’s the first animal that can give you big pets by adding a size and weight bonus to hatched eggs.
Tanuki
S Tier
Multiple Traits
Messes around in your garden by adding mutations like Choc (2x), Chilled (2x), Moonlit (2x), Pollinated (3x), Bloodlit (5x), or Paradisal (100x) to one of your fruits; it may also grant Sheckles, age itself, or do more
Seal
S Tier
Egg Giver
Can give you the egg of a pet you just sold, meaning you can keep selling unwanted Mythicals and Divines for Mythical and Bug Eggs to try for your desired pets.
Queen Bee
S Tier
Cooldown & Mutation
Great as a support critter for Raccoon, Red Fox, Disco Bee, and more, since it fully resets a random pet’s ability cooldown. Also applies the Pollinated mutation (3x value) to a nearby crop roughly every 25 minutes.
Tanchozuru
S Tier
Mutation Pet
Adds the Tranquil mutation to all crop types in your garden. Best used while the Zen Event is active.
Red Fox
S Tier
Seed Pet
Steals (duplicates) a plant seed from a neighbor’s farm (Seed Shop ones only).
Chicken Zombie
S Tier
Mutation Pet
Grants your fruits the Zombified Mutation (25x multiplier).
Praying Mantis
S Tier
Variant Pet
Triggers either a Gold or Rainbow mutation on fruits, boosting their value. Definitely a must-have if you’re aiming for higher stacking bonuses.
Mole
S Tier
Resource Pet
Can dig up free gear for you (i.e., Sprinklers, Lightning Rod, Night Staff) and also Sheckles.
Shiba Inu
S Tier
Seed Pet
More chance to dig up a seed than Golden Lab. Improve its ability by using Nihonzaru or giving it Gold or Rainbow pet mutations.
Blood Owl
S Tier
XP Booster
Makes all your active pets age faster.
Firefly
S Tier
Mutation Pet
Turns your crops Shocked (50x multiplier).
Golden Lab
A Tier
Seed Pet
Digs up random seeds (Common to Divine). Perfect for farming while you’re AFK.
Sand Snake
A Tier
Resource Pet
Clone tools from the Gear Shop (like Sprinklers, Tanning Mirrors, Magnifying Glass, and more) and seeds from the Seed Shop when making a purchase, meaning you might get two instead of one with a 1.45% chance.
Axolotl
A Tier
Harvest Related
Best for making Sheckles, as it gives you a 6.54% chance for summer fruits to stay on their plants. Most of those are top-tier, like Traveler’s Fruit, Lily of the Valley, and Guanabana, so you can collect more of them when harvesting.
Petal Bee
A Tier
Multiple Traits
Ideal for farming Pollinated Fruits (Queen Bee-like timer) and keeping flowers after harvest, especially high-value ones like Sunflower, Moon Blossom, Purple Dahlia, and Pink Lily.
Ankylosaurus
A Tier
Resource Pet
Might return stolen plants to your inventory while it’s active.
Pachycephalosaurus
A Tier
Resource Pet
When crafting items, it may grant you a bonus item of the same kind.
Triceratops
A Tier
Plant Growth Pet
Literally the best pet to use if you want multiple plants to grow fruits quickly.
Cooked Owl
A Tier
Mutation Pet
Can give your crops the Burnt (4x value) or Cooked (25x value) mutation roughly every 15 minutes, with a 15.28% chance to activate. Also grants active animals an extra 0.17 experience points.
Polar Bear
A Tier
Mutation Pet
Has a 10.12% chance to grant you a Chilled (2x value) or Frozen fruit (10x value) every 1.49 minutes.
Pig
A Tier
Variant Pet
Has a higher chance of granting Gold and Rainbow variants than the Praying Mantis (2.2% every two minutes), but its cooldown is longer in comparison. It’s a decent pick, though not as rewarding as the Mantis.
Pterodactyl
A Tier
Jump Height & Mutation
Increases your character’s jump height and flaps its wings to give three to four fruits the Windstruck Mutation (2x Value), and sometimes even the Twisted Mutation (5x Value).
Hyacinth Macaw
A Tier
Mutation Pet
Like the Cloudtouched Mutation Spray, it gives your crops the Cloudtouched mutation (6x multiplier) every eight minutes, though the probability is only 15.74%.
Bear Bee
A Tier
Mutation Pet
Acts just like a Honey Sprinkler, granting a confirmed HoneyGlazed mutation (5x value) to fruits every 25 minutes.
Honey Bee
A Tier
Mutation Pet
Lets you farm guaranteed Pollinated plants (3x multiplier) faster than other bees. Aging it can reduce the timer.
Sea Turtle
A Tier
Mutation & XP Booster
Sends about 1,000 XP to a random pet every 11 minutes and makes a fruit Wet (2x value).
Moon Cat
A Tier
Plant Growth & Harvest Related
Boosts fruit size (1.51x) and keeps Lunar and Blood Moon plants from disappearing after harvest (with only a 6.1% chance).
Moth
A Tier
Aging Pet
Keeps your pets’ Hunger Bar full every 13 minutes, helping them age faster and perform better (Variant pets can give higher-tier mutations, and seed diggers can find better seeds.)
Ostrich
A Tier
Aging Pet
Lets your hatched pets come with an age of one to four.
Silver Monkey
A Tier
Resource Pet
When you sell fruit, it might pop back into your inventory (even mutated ones like Shocked, Gold, or Rainbow). The rarer it is, the lower the chance.
Blood Hedgehog
A Tier
Plant Growth & Variant
Best if you have lots of prickly fruits (i.e., Durian, Cactus, Dragon Fruit, and Pineapple) on your farm, as this critter can make them larger and increase their chances of getting Gold and Rainbow variants.
Red Giant Ant
A Tier
Harvest Related
Can copy your plants when you pick them (even Divine ones).
Tarantula Hawk
A Tier
Cooldown & Mutation
Similar to Queen Bee, but only advances pet cooldown by 1.3 minutes. Useful if you haven’t unlocked Queen Bee yet.
Pack Bee
A Tier
Inventory Pet
Used to expand your inventory slots, letting you hold more fruits, pets, and seeds.
Starfish
A Tier
XP Booster
A situational critter that gains 6.36 XP every second. Best used when you’re trying to unlock extra pet slots. It’s even better than any Brown Mouse, as it can earn you 3,816 experience points every 10 minutes.
Scarlet Macaw
A Tier
Mutation Pet
Has a chance to bless a nearby fruit with a Verdant mutation (4x value) every 11.51 minutes, though the chance is only 15.95%.
Capybara
A Tier
XP Booster
Critters within its radar won’t lose hunger and will gain XP every second instead.
Snail
A Tier
Seed Pet
Can sometimes give you a seed from the plant you just harvested.
Blood Kiwi
A Tier
Hatch Related
Can greatly reduce your eggs’ hatch time (by 45 seconds per minute) and increase hatch speed by 20%.
Koi
A Tier
Egg Giver
May return the eggs you hatch while they’re swimming around your plot.
Squirrel
A Tier
Reclaimer & XP Booster
Might save a single use of your Reclaimer and gain some experience points per second.
Turtle
A Tier
Sprinkler Pet
Mainly works with sprinklers, making them last longer.
Spotted Deer
A Tier
Fruit Duplicator
Can duplicate your berry plants (Celestiberries, Grapes, Strawberries, Blueberries, Cranberries).
Night Owl
A Tier
XP Booster
Has the same ability as Blood Owl but isn’t as good.
Kappa
B Tier
Mutation Pet
Waters your plants to give them the Wet mutation (2x value), or alternatively transforms Wet fruits into Bloodlit (5x value).
Nihonzaru
B Tier
Passive Booster
Increases the passive ability of all active critters, improving their traits only if you’ve got a Hot Spring in your plot.
Iguanodon
B Tier
Aging Pet
A special pet that helps age all your active dinos by transferring XP to them.
Parasaurolophus
B Tier
Speed-Up Pet
Mostly just helps you open up those cosmetic crates faster.
Raptor
B Tier
Mutation Pet
Has a small chance of giving you the Amber Mutation (10x Value) on harvested fruits and also boosts your walking speed.
Stegosaurus
B Tier
Fruit Duplicator
Lets you snag a bonus fruit when picking plants. Prehistoric crops have better odds than other rare ones. It’s super useful when harvesting a Bone Blossom plant.
Dilophosaurus
B Tier
XP Booster
Gives 608 XP to 3 to 4 random pets so they age quicker or use their traits a bit sooner (like 41 seconds early).
Bald Eagle
B Tier
Hatch Related
Lets you hatch eggs 70.40 seconds faster every 7 minutes, not as good as Blood Kiwi, though.
Hamster
B Tier
Speed-Up Pet
Handy for crafting, as it boosts your crafting speed by 30.45% for 18.74 seconds every 3.05 minutes.
Flamingo
B Tier
Plant Growth Pet
Good for overall plant and fruit growth, but not as effective as the Triceratops.
Meerkat
B Tier
Cooldown Pet
A critter that can lower another pet’s cooldown by 21.08 seconds every 7.14 minutes. Sometimes, it might even perform its ability again instantly after one round.
Caterpillar
B Tier
Plant Growth Pet
Makes leafy plants grow faster (Beanstalk, Corn, Pepper, Eggplant, etc.), but there are other crops that aren’t leafy.
Giant Ant
B Tier
Harvest Related
Not as strong as Red Giant Ant, but it’s still useful.
Monkey
B Tier
Resource Pet
Similar to Silver Monkey, just not as powerful.
Dog
B Tier
Seed Pet
It’s like a low-key version of a Golden Lab.
Toucan
B Tier
Plant Growth & Mutation
Allows your Tropical Plants (Mango, Dragon Fruit, Coconut, Cacao, and Watermelon) to mature quickly and gain a variant with a 1.18% chance.
Hedgehog
B Tier
Plant Growth & Variant
A less powerful version of the Blood Hedgehog.
Orangutan
B Tier
Resource Pet
It comes in handy when crafting often, as it offers a 3.43% chance to return materials to your backpack.
Crab
B Tier
Resource Pet
Only manages to snatch around 260 to 460 Sheckles every 6 minutes.
Brown Mouse
B Tier
Jump Height & XP Booster
Good for unlocking more pet slots since it ages fast (803.74 XP/10 min) and also boosts player jump height.
Panda
B Tier
Crop Value Booster
Bamboo is a solid money plant, and Panda increases its price even more.
Wasp
B Tier
Cooldown & Mutation
Shares the same abilities as Queen Bee and Tarantula Hawk, but has a weaker ability timer.
Echo Frog
B Tier
Plant Growth Pet
Speeds up a random plant’s growth by a full day every 10 minutes.
Cat
B Tier
Size Booster
Pretty much does the same thing as Orange Tabby.
Deer
B Tier
Fruit Duplicator
A version of Spotted Deer with lower chances of cloning berry plants.
Sea Otter
B Tier
Plant Growth Pet
Waters plants at different times to speed up growth, but since most crops grow pretty quickly, it mostly helps when you’re short on time or growing slower plants.
Kiwi
B Tier
Hatch Related
A weaker version of Blood Kiwi (helps lower hatching time to 20 seconds per minute).
Owl
B Tier
XP Booster
Shares the same abilities as Blood Owl and Night Owl, but it’s not that solid.
Cow
B Tier
Plant Growth Pet
Helps with plant growth, making it spawn fruits real quick (about 1.12 times faster).
Rooster
B Tier
Hatch Related
Only raises egg hatching speed by 20%.
Peacock
C Tier
Cooldown Pet
Reduces the cooldown of all nearby critters by 61 seconds every 9.58 minutes.
Orange Tabby
C Tier
Size Booster
Makes crops 1.5x bigger in size and weight, which increases their value.
Grey Mouse
C Tier
Jump Height & XP Booster
A less effective version of Brown Mouse.
Bee
C Tier
Mutation Pet
Produces Pollinated fruits, but it’s slower than Honey Bee (24.45 minutes).
Frog
C Tier
Plant Growth Pet
Works like Echo Frog, but takes longer to activate its ability.
Chicken
C Tier
Hatch Related
Helps a little with egg hatching (boosts speed by 10%).
Seagull
D Tier
Seed Pet
May give you seeds from shoveled plants, but the odds are very low. You’re better off using a Reclaimer instead.
Black Bunny
D Tier
Crop Value Booster
Increases a carrot’s selling value by 1.5x, but carrots aren’t a top money-maker.
Bunny
D Tier
Crop Value Booster
Just a regular bunny that eats carrots and bumps up their selling value by 1.5x.
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