Crow and octopus. Both are moderately devious without being prohibitively dangerous.
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Second both of these answers. If I was incredibly wealthy the first thing I would do is have an octopus pet.
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Our house is old. We have spiders. They're not venomous and they're pretty cool. I have to occasionally rescue them from the old farm sink downstairs.
A red panda. Sure, my cats would freak the hell out, but a red panda would quickly use their zen powers to calm them down.
This makes the scenario seem like the exception rather than the rule, and I find this weird and disturbing.
The fact that most responses go "this one animal" as an answer instead of starting from the genus down makes me think I've either misunderstood something or we're really not on the same page here.
I don't know about you, but I don't have... any genuses on speed dial in my brain.
Personally, and it might end me one day, but almost any kinda lizard I think I'd welcome in.
Also sometimes groundhogs look like they might like a brief lift to another patch of dirt to dig around in, or I dunno, maybe a brief snack run.
Pangolin
Lizards of any kind.
baby raccoon.
Guppies and similar fish.
One just shows up on your doorstep, flopping around
All the cats around us are mostly feral and won't even come close. Letting them in would result in piss, shit, and marking everywhere. I happily try to feed them some treats here and there, but no way they're coming inside the house.