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Growing up, some friends had a house kangaroo. It was afraid of everyone but them. Sometimes when visiting I'd find it on the couch and it'd sorta have a low key "oh fuck people" reaction, get up and hop off.
Edit: There's a nice story of one night the old bloke saw the roo grab and drag the labrador out of the warm spot in front of the fire only to steal the spot for itself.
These people also had a donkey that was welcome in the house.
Rural Australia in the 80s.
Elephant. Never met one outside the zoo, but I imagine they would be hard to say "no" to.
But then you wouldn't be able to ignore the elephant in the room.
How would you get em in the house tho?
Spiders.
They protect my plants from gnats and hide out during the day to not disturb or frighten me. Best roommates I've ever had.
I'm down with this. I generally leave any spider smaller than a nickel remain where it's at, and the others are placed lovingly just outside the door.
I have a rule in my house. Do not kill spiders. Reason: If there is a spider, there is something I don't want in my house, it is its job to get rid of it. When the food is gone, so is the spider.
Raven if they were going to be chill about it.
They are not chill. They will ransack your kitchen
Foxes. Which is unfair, as they are basically a mixture of cats and dogs. Also sharks, though that may be hard to do. Not impossible.
Cat software in dog hardware?
Biologically more dog, visually and stylishly more cat. And catto firmware
That's greyhounds.
I would second thought the fox. I heard their pee smells terrible.
Can confirm. The smell level is equal to the cute level.
But on the other hand....
Cruising on a boat, spot a shark fin, "Hey pal want a tow?" Or if the boat has some kinda bay, "Flop aboard for a ride sharko!"
Or just put a sign up - "Free snoot boops"
Turtles. I can always trust a turtle.
It's all fun and games until they bite one of your toes
Probably a capybara, or a cheetah. Both are rather chill animals, and cheetahs are fairly able to be domesticated (and have been multiple times throughout history) at least compared to other big cats.
Both are still a really bad idea, and the latter will probably result in injury or death. After having interacted with two Cheetahs through a rehab centre, I'd be open to try.
Both are rather chill animals,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItix3t1bO4
That video kind of gave the impression that a cheetah might go from being apparently pretty chill to being an asshole pretty unexpectedly.
To be fair, "domesticated" cats are as well and no doubt to the same degree. It's just that due to their size they're not in a position to do much to you.
I certainly get randomly attacked by my cats whenever they get a bee in their bonnet, or want something, or are bored, or because it's Tuesday, etc. The rest of the time they're chill.
If house cats were the size of a Rottweiler we wouldn't allow them in our houses.
Crow and octopus. Both are moderately devious without being prohibitively dangerous.
Second both of these answers. If I was incredibly wealthy the first thing I would do is have an octopus pet.
Ferret. They're awesome pets and blind as hell. If you see one roaming around, he's probably lost.
Spiders. I have, on more than one occation, collected spiders at work to stock up on the ones that died at home.
Unbelievably based
bunny
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.
Nice try druid
Pangolin
I'm a falconer so I've let many raptors into my home and vehicle. Birds have very sensitive lungs so I do give a lot of thought to air quality in those spaces though. No idling cars or near them for a length of time, no candles, no teflon, that kind of stuff.
baby raccoon.
I've put turtles in the car several times, to bring them to water. Birds, we've taken to the seabird rescue. I think that's it.
miniature donkey
Had a neighbor's mini donkey escape last year and found it grazing outside our fence line. She lived in our front yard for several days while we searched for her owner. She was a Super chill animal who liked to stand inside a dog kennel we had setup.
I haven't even met her and I already love her.
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.