🌱 The Ultimate Guide to Grow a Garden Pets (2025)

Discover Every Pet, Their Traits, and How to Level Up Your Farming Game

Pets are a powerful feature in Grow a Garden, added in the 1.04.0 Update, offering unique traits that enhance crop growth, mutation rates, and gameplay efficiency. Whether you're a beginner or aiming to optimize for profit, mastering pet mechanics is crucial.

🐾 What Are Pets in Grow a Garden?

Pets are companion creatures that provide bonuses to your crops and farming setup. Their abilities range from increasing crop size to granting rare crop mutations. Some pets stack their abilities when used together, while others (like the Owl) do not.

• Initial pet slots: 3

• Max pet slots: 8 (by buying/trading aged pets)

• Inventory limit: 60 pets (can be bypassed by storing unhatched eggs)

📋 Full Pet Rarity List & How to Get Them

✅ Obtainable Pets (Through Normal Gameplay)

Common

• Bunny

• Dog

• Golden Lab

• Black Bunny

Uncommon

• Cat

• Chicken

• Deer

Rare

• Hedgehog

• Kiwi

• Monkey

• Orange Tabby

• Pig

• Rooster

• Spotted Deer

Legendary

• Blood Hedgehog

• Blood Kiwi

• Cow

• Frog

• Mole

• Moon Cat

• Polar Bear (grants Frozen Mutation)

• Sea Otter

• Silver Monkey

• Turtle

Mythical

• Brown Mouse

• Caterpillar

• Echo Frog

• Giant Ant

• Grey Mouse

• Owl (ability does not stack)

• Praying Mantis (grants Mutation)

• Red Fox

• Red Giant Ant

• Snail

• Squirrel

Divine

• Blood Owl

• Dragonfly (grants Golden Mutation)

• Night Owl

• Raccoon

🚫 Unobtainable Pets (Event-Only or Developer Restricted)

Legendary

• Panda (No egg version)

Mythical

• Chicken Zombie (Mutation giver)

• Firefly

⚙️ Pet Mechanics Explained

🔼 Pet Aging System

Pets level up and age over time by gaining XP. As pets age:

• XP requirements increase

• Traits improve (shorter cooldowns, higher bonuses, etc.)

• Hunger must be managed (pets won't age if hunger hits 0%)

To view a pet’s age:

• Click the pet > View

• Pick up the pet from inventory

• Use the “<<” Pet Menu on the right side of the screen

🍎 Pet Hunger & Feeding

• Feed pets using any crop or fruit.

• Feeding restores hunger and allows aging.

• Mutation type + rarity of fruit affects how much hunger is restored.

• Different rarities have different hunger capacities.

To feed a pet:

1. Equip food

2. Move close

3. Click > Feed OR Hold Interact Button

🌟 Traits: The Power of Pets

Each pet has a trait — a special ability that affects gameplay. Examples:

• Dragonfly: Can mutate crops into Golden

• Praying Mantis: Boosts mutation chance

• Polar Bear: Applies Frozen Mutation

• Moon Cat: Has synergy during Lunar Glow event

View pet traits by selecting “View” from the pet menu.

🧬 Pets That Grant Crop Mutations

These pets directly trigger or increase mutation chances:

• Dragonfly → Golden Mutation

• Praying Mantis → General Mutation Boost

• Polar Bear → Chilled/Frozen Mutation

• Chicken Zombie → Mutation Giver

• Blood Owl / Night Owl → Unknown high-level effects

🎮 Pro Tips: Maximize Your Pet Strategy

• Stack pets wisely: Combine stackable pets (e.g., multiple Pigs, Mice).

• Use Dragonfly + Thunderstorm: Boost Golden + Shocked combo mutation.

• Combine Polar Bear with Rain: Enable Frozen mutation through Wet → Chilled.

• Age your best pets: Max-level pets have stronger, faster traits.

• Save event pets: Use Divine pets like Night Owl during Lunar Glow.

📝 Full Pet Names List (A–Z for Roleplaying or Renaming)

A wide selection of potential pet names helps personalize your experience. Sample names:

• Bella, Cappy, Dazzy, Eliel, Fawny, Gus, Jax, Keeko, Mewi, Nani, Paya, Roozy, Shay, Suki, Vivi, Zephy, and dozens more.

Developer-only names:

• math.random(1, 4^X...X) boosts passive powers by 100x!

🧠 Trivia & Easter Eggs

• Mutation Givers: Only 4 known pets grant crop mutations.

• Pet Menu UI: Updated in 1.07.0, allows feeding + stats check via << icon.

• Huge Pets Chance: 0.01% chance when hatching any egg.

📈 Optimize Your Garden with the Right Pets

Understanding the role of pets can make or break your farming empire in Grow a Garden. Whether you're targeting legendary crops, aiming for that 5,550x mutation combo, or just love collecting unique companions, choosing the right pets and caring for them properly is essential.

Don’t forget to level, feed, and strategically combine your pets to unlock their full potential!