as i've lived next to a protected jungle and being from a semi-agrarian community i have had many pets in past, and honestly having pets played out as a good coping mechanism for me
list of pets throughout life,
-> a dove, when i was a toddler, came to us injured in wing, someone healed it and later release in wild
-> a desi (indian pariah) dog, around same time we had that dove, don't remember much about him, family says he died because of pneumonia like situation
-> a cat that looked like bengal cat, when i was in primary school, longest living pet so far, lived with us for 3 and a half year, then a stray dog killed him
-> another orange-ish fur cat, a baby one, came to our lives around a year later to the cat above, lived with us for maybe six months then died due to some ear related infaction or issue
-> another cat, looked like bengal, lived with us for maybe six months then ran away
-> another cat, a kitten like bengal, lived with us for maybe two months and a stray dog killed it later when it went outside
-> a rabbit or hare, white-grey mixture fur, lived with us for six to eight months, died due to illness
-> a pair of striped indian squirrel cubs, saved them when a storm came and knocked out their nest off a tree, we could never find their mother or so so decided to grow them, one of them ran away after a while, other is still living with us and maybe aged one year, hates taking baths but somewhat reeks of grass, eats mainly vegetable leftovers and rice