Star Wars Chat Pack: What creature would you adopt as a pet?

Welcome to Day 18 of my NaBloPoMo Challenge, in which I randomly pick a card from the Star Wars Chat Pack.

Today’s question is: You can choose to adopt one Star Wars creature to be your pet. Which do you pick and what would you name it?

Oh, fun! There’s lots of cute and/or cool creatures in Star Wars (not the monsters I just wrote about the other day) that would be, let’s say interesting, to have as a pet. Here’s a few I’d consider:

A Voorpak

This one is named Buggles, and he belongs to Torra Doza in the animated series Resistance. Omega from the Bad Batch also runs into one on Pantora. They’re pretty cute, but I can’t decide if they look more like cats or dogs, lol. They seem very high energy, too, like a small dog that yips a lot, which would veer me away.

A Charhound

This one is named Ember, and she’s the loyal companion to Jedi Knight Bell Zettifar in the High Republic. Clearly a dog-like creature, charhounds have extremely high internal temperatures, and can breath fire. So like any dog, charhounds are companiable and loyal (and also fierce when called for), but I’d be afraid it would burn my house down, lol. I love Ember, though, and the fact that a Jedi has a “pet” despite the Order discouraging attachments.

But as I’m a cat person, I think I’d have to go with a Tooka cat (or Loth-cats as they’re called on Lothal).

This one is Sabine’s lothcat, Murley. It almost looks like a voorpak, with those skinny legs. I still prefer our own Earth cats, but space-cats will do nicely, too. What would I name it? I’d probably get a pair and name them Luke and Leia, or Rey and Kylo.

There are other awesome creatures from Star Wars that I love, but because they’re wild animals, I wouldn’t consider them for pets. Lothwolves are my favorite Star Wars creature, but they’re wild in nature and I wouldn’t dream of taming them. I love the adorable porgs, but they’re not pet material in my opinion (even though they seem to make themselves comfortable aboard the Millenium Falcon). Crait’s crystal foxes, called vulptex, are beautiful, but I’m content to watch them from afar.

I’ve also excluded beasts of burden, like banthas, eopies, dewbacks, fathiers, etc. But they could probably count as pets, as they’re more domesticated than their wild cousins.

What would you choose as a pet? Let me know in the comments and we’ll talk about it!