Grow a Garden introduced pets as a valuable gameplay feature designed to boost player progress through traits. Each pet comes with its own unique power and requires a specific method to obtain.
These pets actively contribute to your garden’s development by providing buffs, resource bonuses, or other helpful effects that can significantly impact your gameplay efficiency. In this article, we’ll explore what pets are, how to obtain them, and what traits they bring to your garden.
What Are Pets
Grow a Garden pets are companions that range from small creatures to larger beings, each equipped with unique traits designed to boost your progress. The game organizes pets into eight distinct rarity categories:
- Common
- Uncommon
- Rare
- Legendary
- Mythical
- Divine
- Prismatic
- Transcendent
There are numerous pets within each rarity category. Each rarity tier contains multiple pets with varying levels of power and usefulness. Higher rarity pets typically offer more substantial benefits but come with increased difficulty in obtaining them. The rarer the pet, the more impactful its traits tend to be for your garden’s development.
How to Get Pets in Grow a Garden
Getting pets in Grow a Garden is simpler than most people think, but it requires a bit of luck. The process involves purchasing and hatching eggs, which contain random pets based on specific drop rates.
Here’s how to obtain pets:
- Open Grow a Garden
- Go to the “Pet Eggs” store on the other part of the map
- Select “Show me the Egg Shop”
- Buy an Egg from the available stock
- Plant it in your garden and wait for it to grow
- Hatch the egg
Every egg contains different pets with predetermined chances. The common egg, for example, offers three possible pets with equal probability:
- Dog – 33.33%
- Golden Lab – 33.33%
- Bunny – 33.33%
You can review the exact drop chances for any egg by clicking the “?” icon next to it in the egg shop. This transparency allows you to make informed purchasing decisions based on which pets you’re hoping to obtain.
The randomized system means you might get your desired pet immediately or need multiple attempts. Higher rarity eggs typically cost more but offer access to more powerful pets with rare traits.
Pet Traits
Pet traits are passive abilities that automatically affect your garden’s performance. These traits run continuously in the background, providing various benefits without any input from you.
Traits are organized into several categories:
- Seed & Resource Gathering
- Growth Speed Boosters
- Mutation & Variant Enhancers
- Size Boost & Growth Tier
- Harvest Duplication & Seed Drops
- Player Interaction Effects
- and many more
Each pet comes with one or more traits that determine its value. The Queen Bee showcases how pets can have multiple abilities working together:
- Every ~20 Minutes, a nearby fruit becomes magically pollinated, applying the Pollinated mutation.
- Every ~23 Minutes, the pet with the highest cooldown will refresh its ability! Does not copy pet mutation abilities.
Multiple pets can work simultaneously, stacking their effects to create powerful combinations. The key is understanding what each trait does and selecting pets that complement your gardening goals.
Final Words
Pets in Grow a Garden offer valuable passive benefits that can transform your farming efficiency. Start with common pets from affordable eggs and gradually work toward rarer companions as your resources grow.
Keep your pets fed to maintain their aging process and improve their abilities over time. The right combination of active pets creates powerful synergies that enhance mutation chances, harvest bonuses, and resource gathering.
