A Subtrope of Loyal Animal Companion, and a frequent All Animals Are Dogs offender. Common Subtropes of this include: * Uncommonly Common Exotic Pet: Seen It a Million Times: it is very common for fictional characters (especially if they are a bit Sue-ish) to own pets that in Real Life, are not common at all. Likely because, due to the Rule of Cool, most of us have daydreamed of owning such a pet at one point in our lives. * Alien Pet: Why own a critically engangered animal when you can own a creature that's not of this world? * Mythical Pet: a creature or character that is actually a powerful mythological creature but treated as a regular pet. Muggles might actually see an odd-looking peacock instead of a phoenix, a horse instead of a unicorn, etc. * Impossible Pet: due to D