Our Grow a Garden Pet Tier List ranks each pet type from best to worst. The rankings are based on how useful their passive abilities are!
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Grow a Garden Pet Tier List
Which pets are best to obtain?
S Tier
- Orange Tabby
- Rare pet
- Boost the size of nearby plants by 1.53 every 88.87 seconds
- Silver Monkey
- Legendary rarity pet
- Provides the same buff as the Monkey, but the chance of getting a refund increases by 7.74%
- Turtle
- Legendary rarity pet
- 20.49% boost to the duration of sprinklers
- Sea Otter
- Legendary rarity pet
- Regularly waters plants by spraying them
- Praying Mantis
- Bug pet
- Every 80 seconds, the Mantis prays for 10 seconds, boosting the mutation chance of nearby crops by 1.5x
- Raccoon
- Event pet
- Copies the crop from another player’s garden and places it into your own garden
- Mole
- Event pet
- Can obtain random Gear types and Sheckles
- Red Fox
- Mythical pet
- This pet can steal a seed from another garden every 10 minutes
- Blood Owl
- Event pet
- Boosts the EXP gain of each active pet by 0.5 per second
- Tarantula Hawk
- Event pet
- Applies the Pollinated mutation to a random crop, increasing its value by 3x
- Reduces the cooldown timer of a pet by 80 seconds
- Pack Bee
- Event pet (craftable)
- Increases your backpack size by 25
- Mimic Octopus
- Event pet
- Every 20 minutes, it copies the ability of a random active pet in your garden
- T-Rex
- Event pet
- Eats a random mutation from a crop and then applies it to multiple crops
- Fennec Fox
- Event pet
- Has a chance of copying a mutation from a fruit in another player’s garden and then applies it to a fruit in your garden
- Tanuki
- Event pet
- Can either apply mutations, earn EXP and Sheckles, reduce the cooldown of pet abilities, and steal from other gardens
- Kitsune
- Event pet
- Duplicates a crop from another player’s garden every 22 minutes, applying the Chakra mutation, with a small chance of this mutation turning into Foxfire Chakra
- Ankylosaurus
- Event pet
- You have a 16.35% chance of getting a stolen fruit back
- Pancake Mole
- Event pet
- Has the same ability as the normal Mole pet
- French Fry Ferret
- Event pet
- Increases the level of a random pet by 1 every 20 to 60 minutes
A Tier
- Cat
- Uncommon rarity pet
- Increases the size of nearby fruit by 1.25x every 80 seconds
- Pig
- Uncommon rarity pet
- Boosts the mutation chance of nearby plants by 2x every 118 seconds
- Monkey
- Rare pet
- You may get a refund for seeds when selling crops
- Cow
- Legendary rarity pet
- 1.12x buff to the growth speed of nearby crops
- Polar Bear
- Legendary rarity pet
- Has a chance of applying the Chilled or Frozen mutations to your crops
- Dragonfly
- Bug pet
- Applies the Golden mutation to a random crop every 5 minutes
- Caterpillar
- Bug pet
- Must be near leafy crops to provide a 1.5x boost to growth speed
- Giant Ant
- Bug pet
- The duplication of crops has a 10% chance of occurring when harvested
- Echo Frog
- Event pet
- A nearby plant grows faster for the next 24 hours, every 15 minutes
- Night Owl
- Event pet
- The active pets in your garden get an EXP gain boost of 0.05x to 0.25x
- Brown Mouse
- Mythical pet
- Earns 750 EXP every 8 minutes and boosts your jumping height by 10%
- Red Giant Ant
- Mythical pet
- Grants a 5% chance of duplicating a crop when you harvest it
- Blood Kiwi
- Event pet
- Decreases the hatching time of an egg by 45 seconds every 50 seconds, and boosts the overall hatching speed by 20%
- Moon Cat
- Event pet
- Increases the size of fruit by 1.5x
- Grants a 6% chance of replanting single Night-exclusive seeds
- Bear Bee
- Event pet
- Applies the Honey Glazed mutation to a random crop, increasing its value by 5x
- Queen Bee
- Event pet
- Applies the Pollinated mutation to a random crop, increasing its value by 3x
- Refreshes the cooldown of a random pet in your garden every 30 minutes
- Petal Bee
- Event pet
- Applies the Pollinated mutation to a random crop, increasing its value by 3x
- Grants a 1% chance of Flowers remaining in your garden after you harvest them
- Wasp
- Event pet
- Applies the Pollinated mutation to a random crop, increasing its value by 3x
- Reduces the cooldown timer of a random pet by 60 seconds
- Moth
- Event pet
- Fills the current hunger bar of a random pet every 13 minutes
- Butterfly
- Event pet
- Replaces 5 mutations from a crop with the Rainbow mutation
- Orangutan
- Event pet
- Whenever you craft, there’s a chance you get the materials back
- Peacock
- Event pet
- Speeds up the cooldowns of all nearby pets
- Raptor
- Event pet
- Has a 2-2.5% chance of applying the Amber mutation to a crop, which increases the selling value by 10x
- Boosts your movement speed by 14-14.5%
- Pterodactyl
- Event pet
- Applies the Windstruck mutation to multiple crops in your garden (with a chance of the mutation turning into Twisted)
- Your jumping height increases by 14.39%
- Hyacinth Macaw
- Event pet
- Has a 15.63% chance of applying the Cloudtouched mutation to a random crop; there are only two ways of getting this mutation
- Axlotol
- Event pet
- There is a 6.76% chance that a Summer crop remains in your garden when you harvest it
- Tanchozaru
- Event pet
- Increases the chances of crops getting the Tranquil mutation by 5.11% every 10 minutes, which increases the selling value by 20x
- Koi
- Event pet
- Once an egg hatches, it has a chance of respawning
- Dilophosaurus
- Event pet
- Spits venom at 3 other pets, which either grants them 570 EXP or reduces their cooldown timers by 40.82
- Sushi Bear
- Event pet
- Throw sushi at a random pet every 100 to 670 seconds, replenishing 1 to 50% of their Hunger
- 15% chance of applying the Chilled or Frozen mutation to a random crop every 10 to 80 seconds
B Tier
- Golden Lab
- Common rarity pet
- 10% chance of digging up a seed every 60 seconds, but this chance increases the older the dog gets
- Bunny
- Common rarity pet
- If you have carrots in your garden, it picks one up every 40 seconds, which increases its sell value by 1.5x
- Black Bunny
- Uncommon rarity pet
- Does the same as the Bunny pet
- Deer
- Uncommon rarity pet
- Berries are already permanent crops, but the Deer buff grants a chance of the already grown berries remaining after you harvest them, which means you don’t have to wait for them to grow back
- Spotted Deer
- Rare pet
- Does the same as the Deer pet but provides a higher chance of the berries remaining
- Chicken
- Uncommon rarity pet
- The hatching time for eggs decreases by 10%, which is good, but kind of unnecessary
- Rooster
- Rare pet
- Does the same as the Chicken, but the hatching time duration decreases by 20.52% – in my opinion, this is still an unnecessary passive ability
- Snail
- Bug pet
- You have a chance of obtaining seeds when harvesting crops, but this can be any seed, even low-rarity, cheap ones
- Frog
- Event pet
- A nearby plant grows faster for the next 24 hours, every 20 minutes
- Owl
- Event pet
- Pets in your garden earn 0.06 more EXP, increasing by 0.001% per age (level up)
- Grey Mouse
- Mythical pet
- Earns 500 EXP every 10 minutes and boosts your walking speed by 10%
- Squirrel
- Mythical pet
- Grants a 2.5% chance of reclaiming a seed after you plant it
- Blood Hedgehog
- Event pet
- Boosts the size of prickly fruit and increases the chance of applying a mutation to them
- Kiwi
- Event pet
- Decreases the hatch time of an egg by 25 seconds every 60 seconds
- Chicken Zombie
- Event pet
- Has a 20% chance of creating Zombified plants every 30 minutes and boosts the overall hatching speed of eggs by 10%
- Bee
- Event pet
- Applies the Pollinated mutation to a random crop every 25 minutes, increasing its value by 3x
- Honey Bee
- Event pet
- Applies the Pollinated mutation to a random crop every 20 minutes, increasing its value by 3x
- Disco Bee
- Event Pet
- Has a 12% chance of adding the Disco mutation to a crop every 20 minutes
- Cooked Owl
- Event pet
- Has a 15.35% chance of adding the Burnt or Cooked mutation to a crop every 15 minutes
- Seagull
- Event pet
- Shovelling a plant may reward you with the plant’s seed
- Flamingo
- Event pet
- Boosts the Growth Speed of plants by 15x every 4 minutes
- Toucan
- Event pet
- Boosts the size of tropical plants and has a greater chance of applying mutations to them
- Sea Turtle
- Event pet
- Grants a pet with extra EXP and sometimes applies the Wet mutation to crops
- Seal
- Event pet
- There’s a 2% chance you get the egg back when you sell a pet
- Scarlet Macaw
- Event pet
- 15.95% chance of applying the Verdant mutation to tropical plants every 11-12 minutes
- Triceratops
- Event pet
- Boosts the speed of 3 crops by 33 minutes and 33 seconds
- Stegosauraus
- Event pet
- Has a slight chance of duplicating a random crop, but has a better chance of duplicating a Prehistoric crop
- Meerkat
- Event pet
- Every 7 minutes and 14 seconds, the cooldown of a pet’s ability decreases by 21.06 seconds
- Sand Snake
- Event pet
- Has a 1.31-3% chance of duplicating items or seeds when you buy them
- Brontosaurus
- Event pet
- Increases the size of pets when they hatch from eggs
- Shiba Inu
- Event pet
- Does the same as the Golden Lab, but with a 15% chance instead of 10%
- Nihonzaru
- Event pet
- Relies on having a Hot Spring in your garden for it to boost the abilities of other pets, but only slightly
- Kappa
- Event pet
- Sprays water on random crops every 8 seconds, applying the Wet mutation, with a 10.27% chance of turning Wet crops into Bloodlit ones
- Pachycephalosaurus
- Event pet
- Grants a 6.52% chance of duplicating an item that is crafted
- Kodama
- Event pet
- You have a 5% chance of Zen crops getting the Tranquil mutation when you harvest them
- Corrupted Kodama
- Event pet
- You have a 4.22% chance of Zen crops getting the Corrupt mutation when you harvest them
- Football
- Event pet
- You have a 20.4% chance of getting either 870 Sheckles or a Watering Can
- Spaghetti Sloth
- Event pet
- Applies the Sauce, Pasta, or Meatball mutation to a random crop every 3 to 14 minutes
C Tier
- Panda
- Event pet
- Increases the value of your bamboo, but this is a one-time crop anyway. This would be a better passive ability if bamboo didn’t disappear once you harvest it
- Dog
- Common rarity pet
- 10% chance of digging up a seed
- Hedgehog
- Event pet
- Boosts the size of prickly fruit by 1.50x
- Starfish
- Event pet
- Earns extra EXP per second
- Crab
- Event pet
- Pinches other players and rewards you with Sheckles, but the amount of Sheckles is pretty small
- Ostrich
- Event pet
- Increases the age of a pet when it hatches, which may help boost its abilities
- Capybara
- Event pet
- Grants nearby pets with an additional 3-4 EXP and pauses their Hunger bar
- Parasaulorophus
- Event pet
- Reduces the timer of a crate by 81 seconds, with a 25.96% chance of the reduction being boosted by 1.87x
- Iguanadon
- Event pet
- Increases Dinosaur pet EXP by 0.45
- Bagel Bunny
- Event pet
- Increases the value of a carrot by 5x every 5 to 45 seconds
Adele Wilson
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