Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream - The Complete Pet Guide And Animal List

Giving your unstable digital clones a pet to take care of is easily the best new feature added to the island, but the game makes you work to unlock the good ones.

One of the biggest complaints about the original game was that the apartments felt incredibly sterile. You could buy your residents a fancy couch, but they just sat there staring at the wall. The developers finally fixed this in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream by introducing a dedicated Pet system. You can now fill your island with everything from standard cats and dogs to literal ghosts and UFOs. Now before you waste hours waiting for an animal to magically appear in the standard shops, you need to understand that the pet economy operates on its own set of rules. I am going to show you exactly how to farm these creatures, how to unlock the custom pet creator, and provide the complete database of every animal in the game.

If you are looking for more ways to customize the absolute chaos of your town, make sure to browse the full Tomodachi Life hub.

The Minigame Pet Farm

Pets are not sold at the standard clothing or food stores. The game categorizes them as Treasures. This means you have to acquire them through the same frustrating grind you use to farm gold bars and toilet paper.

Whenever you see a green line radiating from a Mii's apartment, they want to play a minigame. If you actually manage to beat them, they offer you a choice of three Prize Boxes: Small, Medium, or Large. Your pet pulls are entirely dependent on which box you pick and a heavy dose of random number generation.

If you pick the Small Box, you are usually going to pull bugs or tiny animals like a Frog, a Butterfly, or a Hamster. The Medium Box contains standard companions like Dogs, Cats, and Pigs. If you want the genuinely absurd animals, you have to risk it all on the Large Box. This is the only place you can pull high value creatures like a T-Rex, a Lion, or a Unicorn. I broke down the exact mechanics of these rigged carnival games in my broader treasures and dreams guide, but just know that if you want a specific animal, you are going to be playing a lot of Double Shadow Quizzes.

Every Known Pet And Where To Find It

Stop guessing which box to pick. Here is the full list of all 41 default pets and what they sell for if you need quick cash.

The Pet	Prize Box & Sell Price
Alpaca	Large Prize Box ($120.00)
Axolotl	Small Prize Box ($50.00)
Bearded Dragon	Small Prize Box ($60.00)
Butterfly	Small Prize Box ($30.00)
Capybara	Medium Prize Box ($120.00)
Cat	Medium Prize Box ($100.00)
Chick	Small Prize Box ($15.00)
Chipmunk	Small Prize Box ($70.00)
Clione	Small Prize Box ($5.00)
Clown Fish	Small Prize Box ($15.00)
Cockatoo	Medium Prize Box ($80.00)
Creature Egg	Medium Prize Box ($2.00)
Dog	Medium Prize Box ($100.00)
Eastern Quoll	Medium Prize Box ($70.00)
Flamingo	Large Prize Box ($150.00)
Frog	Small Prize Box ($3.00)
Ghost	Medium Prize Box ($250.00)
Goldfish	Small Prize Box ($10.00)
Hamster	Small Prize Box ($10.00)
Hedgehog	Small Prize Box ($20.00)
Hercules Beetle	Small Prize Box ($100.00)
Horse	Large Prize Box ($200.00)
Jellyfish	Small Prize Box ($3.00)
Kangaroo	Large Prize Box ($150.00)
Keseran-Pasaran	Small Prize Box ($250.00)
Lion	Large Prize Box ($200.00)
Octopus	Medium Prize Box ($20.00)
Parrot	Small Prize Box ($57.00)
Penguin	Medium Prize Box ($150.00)
Pig	Medium Prize Box ($120.00)
Rabbit	Small Prize Box ($45.00)
Robot	Small Prize Box ($198.00)
Shark	Large Prize Box ($150.00)
Spirit	Small Prize Box ($250.00)
Sugar Glider	Small Prize Box ($31.00)
Tuna	Large Prize Box ($150.00)
Turtle	Medium Prize Box ($55.00)
Tyrannosaurus	Large Prize Box ($300.00)
UFO	Watch the Alien Abduction fever dream ($58.00)
Unicorn	Large Prize Box ($300.00)
Water Flea	Small Prize Box ($1.00)

Equipping And Interacting

Once you actually pull an animal from a box, it sits in your global inventory until you assign it. When you visit a resident, select the Treasure option and navigate over to the dedicated Pet tab.

When you hand a Mii an animal, they immediately equip it. It is not just a static decoration. The animal will actively wander around the apartment, and your resident will occasionally stop what they are doing to play with it or feed it.

I actually use pets as a form of island management. If I have a resident who is constantly picking fights and forcing me to reference my guide on curing depression and fixing arguments, I hand them a high tier pet like a Dog or a T-Rex. It distracts them. They spend more time interacting with the animal and less time annoying their neighbors. You can assign multiple items to a single Mii, but there is a hard inventory cap, so you cannot just fill a single apartment with forty cats.

The True Endgame: Creating Custom Pets

If you do not want to rely on the random number generator to pull a standard dog, the game actually lets you draw your own animals.

This feature is locked behind the Wishing Fountain economy. As you earn Warm Fuzzies from taking care of your residents, you need to rank the fountain up to Level 6. Once you hit that specific milestone, you must spend your Wish to add "Treasures" to the Palette House Workshop. If you need a refresher on how the fountain economy operates, check out my breakdown on customization and best wishes to prioritize.

Once the Treasure catalog is unlocked in the Palette House, you are free to draw literal abominations and classify them as pets. You can then navigate to the "My Treasures Shop" on your map to purchase duplicates of your custom creation using standard cash. You can hand out your custom monstrosity to every single resident on the island, creating a unified, terrifying aesthetic that completely ruins the peace and quiet of the apartment building.