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Grow a Garden Pet Tier List (After Zen Update)- Best Pets List

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Grow a garden has quickly become one of the most popular farming games on Roblox.

With its unique blend of plant mutations, crop management, and quirky mechanics, the game keeps expanding with every update.  One of the most exciting additions? Pets.

These adorable creatures don’t just look cute, each comes with special traits that directly impact your garden’s growth, fruit quality, and even mutation chances.

Well, there are a lot of animal, bugs and other creatures, so we have created a Pet tier list guide based on how useful their traits are for farming, growth boosts, and passive abilities.

If you’re new to the game, make sure to check out our Grow a Garden: Codes, Secret Seeds Guide and the complete breakdown of the Zen Update to stay up to date with everything.

So, let’s get started.

Grow a Garden Pet Tier List 

S Tier – Overpowered & Essential

These are the best pets in Grow a Garden. They offer powerful abilities like stealing fruits, forcing high-value mutations (Gold, Rainbow, Disco), and even mimicking other top pets.

If you’re serious about profit and mutations, S Tier pets are must-haves in your garden setup.

All Animals Tier Ranking Type Trait
Kitsune S Tier Fruit-Stealing Pet Right now, the best pet in Grow a Garden. It can apply a Chakra Mutation (15x value) to a fruit from a nearby garden, or even a Foxfire Chakra (90x value), and give it to you.
Dragonfly S Tier Variant Pet Gives a guaranteed Gold plant every five minutes (worth 20x more). It’s hard to say no to that.
Disco Bee S Tier Mutation Pet Activates the Disco mutation on crops (125x value) nearly every 20 minutes, with a 12.28% chance each time.
Raccoon S Tier Fruit-Stealing Pet Gives free fruit every 15 minutes by cloning one from a neighbor’s garden.
Mimic Octopus S Tier Ability Cloner Mimics the ability of an active pet. Best when paired with other S-tier animals.
Butterfly S Tier Variant Pet Applies Rainbow mutation (50x) to plants with five mutations every 30 minutes (skips favorited ones).
Spinosaurus S Tier Mutation Pet Eats one mutation from four plants and puts them all on a single fruit, preferring to bless one of your favorited plants.
T-Rex S Tier Mutation Pet Eats a mutation from a random fruit grown on your farmland and then pours it onto three to four different fruits.
Fennec Fox S Tier Mutation Pet Copies a random mutation from your neighbor’s garden and triggers it on one of your crops.
Brontosaurus S Tier Size Booster It’s the first animal that can give you big pets by adding a size and weight bonus to hatched eggs.
Tanuki S Tier Multiple Traits Messes around in your garden by adding mutations like Choc (2x), Chilled (2x), Moonlit (2x) and more to one of your fruits; it may also grant Sheckles, age itself, or do other activities.
Seal S Tier Egg Giver Can give you the egg of a pet you just sold, meaning you can keep selling unwanted Mythicals and Divines for Mythical and Bug Eggs to try for your desired pets.
Queen Bee S Tier Cooldown & Mutation Great as a support critter for Raccoon, Red Fox, Disco Bee, and more, since it fully resets a random pet’s ability cooldown. Also applies the Pollinated mutation (3x value) to a nearby crop roughly every 25 minutes.
Tanchozuru S Tier Mutation Pet Adds the Tranquil mutation to all crop types in your garden. Best used while the Zen Event is active.
Red Fox S Tier Seed Pet Steals (duplicates) a plant seed from a neighbor’s farm (Seed Shop ones only).
Chicken Zombie S Tier Mutation Pet Grants your fruits the Zombified Mutation (25x multiplier).
Praying Mantis S Tier Variant Pet Triggers either a Gold or Rainbow mutation on fruits, boosting their value. Definitely a must-have if you’re aiming for higher stacking bonuses.
Mole S Tier Resource Pet Can dig up free gear for you (i.e., Sprinklers, Lightning Rod, Night Staff) and also Sheckles.
Shiba Inu S Tier Seed Pet More chance to dig up a seed than Golden Lab. Improve its ability by using Nihonzaru or giving it Gold or Rainbow pet mutations.
Blood Owl S Tier XP Booster Makes all your active pets age faster.
Firefly S Tier Mutation Pet Turns your crops Shocked (50x multiplier).

 

 A Tier – Strong & Reliable:

A Tier pets come with highly useful abilities that help speed up growth, reduce pet hunger, or enhance your mutation and XP potential. While not as OP as S Tier, many of these still offer great passive boosts, especially when paired strategically.

All Animals Tier Ranking Type Trait
Golden Lab A Tier Seed Pet Digs up random seeds (Common to Divine). Perfect for farming while you’re AFK.
Sand Snake A Tier Resource Pet Clone tools from the Gear Shop (like Sprinklers, Tanning Mirrors, Magnifying Glass, and more) and seeds from the Seed Shop when making a purchase, meaning you might get two instead of one with a 1.45% chance.
Axolotl A Tier Harvest Related Best for making Sheckles, as it gives you a 6.54% chance for summer fruits to stay on their plants. Most of those are top-tier, like Traveler’s Fruit, Lily of the Valley, and Guanabana, so you can collect more of them when harvesting.
Petal Bee A Tier Multiple Traits Ideal for farming Pollinated Fruits (Queen Bee-like timer) and keeping flowers after harvest, especially high-value ones like Sunflower, Moon Blossom, Purple Dahlia, and Pink Lily.
Ankylosaurus A Tier Resource Pet Might return stolen plants to your inventory while it’s active.
Pachycephalosaurus A Tier Resource Pet When crafting items, it may grant you a bonus item of the same kind.
Triceratops A Tier Plant Growth Pet Literally the best pet to use if you want multiple plants to grow fruits quickly.
Cooked Owl A Tier Mutation Pet Can give your crops the Burnt (4x value) or Cooked (25x value) mutation roughly every 15 minutes, with a 15.28% chance to activate. Also grants active animals an extra 0.17 experience points.
Polar Bear A Tier Mutation Pet Has a 10.12% chance to grant you a Chilled (2x value) or Frozen fruit (10x value) every 1.49 minutes.
Pig A Tier Variant Pet Has a higher chance of granting Gold and Rainbow variants than the Praying Mantis (2.2% every two minutes), but its cooldown is longer in comparison. It’s a decent pick, though not as rewarding as the Mantis.
Pterodactyl A Tier Jump Height & Mutation Increases your character’s jump height and flaps its wings to give three to four fruits the Windstruck Mutation (2x Value), and sometimes even the Twisted Mutation (5x Value).
Hyacinth Macaw A Tier Mutation Pet Like the Cloudtouched Mutation Spray, it gives your crops the Cloudtouched mutation (6x multiplier) every eight minutes, though the probability is only 15.74%.
Bear Bee A Tier Mutation Pet Acts just like a Honey Sprinkler, granting a confirmed HoneyGlazed mutation (5x value) to fruits every 25 minutes.
Honey Bee A Tier Mutation Pet Lets you farm guaranteed Pollinated plants (3x multiplier) faster than other bees. Aging it can reduce the timer.
Sea Turtle A Tier Mutation & XP Booster Sends about 1,000 XP to a random pet every 11 minutes and makes a fruit Wet (2x value).
Moon Cat A Tier Plant Growth & Harvest Related Boosts fruit size (1.51x) and keeps Lunar and Blood Moon plants from disappearing after harvest (with only a 6.1% chance).
Moth A Tier Aging Pet Keeps your pets’ Hunger Bar full every 13 minutes, helping them age faster and perform better (Variant pets can give higher-tier mutations, and seed diggers can find better seeds.)
Ostrich A Tier Aging Pet Lets your hatched pets come with an age of one to four.
Silver Monkey A Tier Resource Pet When you sell fruit, it might pop back into your inventory (even mutated ones like Shocked, Gold, or Rainbow). The rarer it is, the lower the chance.
Blood Hedgehog A Tier Plant Growth & Variant Best if you have lots of prickly fruits (i.e., Durian, Cactus, Dragon Fruit, and Pineapple) on your farm, as this critter can make them larger and increase their chances of getting Gold and Rainbow variants.
Red Giant Ant A Tier Harvest Related Can copy your plants when you pick them (even Divine ones).
Tarantula Hawk A Tier Cooldown & Mutation Similar to Queen Bee, but only advances pet cooldown by 1.3 minutes. Useful if you haven’t unlocked Queen Bee yet.
Pack Bee A Tier Inventory Pet Used to expand your inventory slots, letting you hold more fruits, pets, and seeds.
Starfish A Tier XP Booster A situational critter that gains 6.36 XP every second. Best used when you’re trying to unlock extra pet slots. It’s even better than any Brown Mouse, as it can earn you 3,816 experience points every 10 minutes.
Scarlet Macaw A Tier Mutation Pet Has a chance to bless a nearby fruit with a Verdant mutation (4x value) every 11.51 minutes, though the chance is only 15.95%.
Capybara A Tier XP Booster Critters within its radar won’t lose hunger and will gain XP every second instead.
Snail A Tier Seed Pet Can sometimes give you a seed from the plant you just harvested.
Blood Kiwi A Tier Hatch Related Can greatly reduce your eggs’ hatch time (by 45 seconds per minute) and increase hatch speed by 20%.
Koi A Tier Egg Giver May return the eggs you hatch while they’re swimming around your plot.
Squirrel A Tier Reclaimer & XP Booster Might save a single use of your Reclaimer and gain some experience points per second.
Turtle A Tier Sprinkler Pet Mainly works with sprinklers, making them last longer.
Spotted Deer A Tier Fruit Duplicator Can duplicate your berry plants (Celestiberries, Grapes, Strawberries, Blueberries, Cranberries).
Night Owl A Tier XP Booster Has the same ability as Blood Owl but isn’t as good.

 

B Tier – Balanced & Supportive:

These pets provide average value and are great for mid-game progress.

They include some helpful mutation and XP boosters, but often only work in niche conditions or with certain crop types. Best used in combo with stronger pets.

All Animals Tier Ranking Type Trait
Kappa B Tier Mutation Pet Waters your plants to give them the Wet mutation (2x value), or alternatively transforms Wet fruits into Bloodlit (5x value).
Nihonzaru B Tier Passive Booster Increases the passive ability of all active critters, improving their traits only if you’ve got a Hot Spring in your plot.
Iguanodon B Tier Aging Pet A special pet that helps age all your active dinos by transferring XP to them.
Parasaurolophus B Tier Speed-Up Pet Mostly just helps you open up those cosmetic crates faster.
Raptor B Tier Mutation Pet Has a small chance of giving you the Amber Mutation (10x Value) on harvested fruits and also boosts your walking speed.
Stegosaurus B Tier Fruit Duplicator Lets you snag a bonus fruit when picking plants. Prehistoric crops have better odds than other rare ones. It’s super useful when harvesting a Bone Blossom plant.
Dilophosaurus B Tier XP Booster Gives 608 XP to 3 to 4 random pets so they age quicker or use their traits a bit sooner (like 41 seconds early).
Bald Eagle B Tier Hatch Related Lets you hatch eggs 70.40 seconds faster every 7 minutes, not as good as Blood Kiwi, though.
Hamster B Tier Speed-Up Pet Handy for crafting, as it boosts your crafting speed by 30.45% for 18.74 seconds every 3.05 minutes.
Flamingo B Tier Plant Growth Pet Good for overall plant and fruit growth, but not as effective as the Triceratops.
Meerkat B Tier Cooldown Pet A critter that can lower another pet’s cooldown by 21.08 seconds every 7.14 minutes. Sometimes, it might even perform its ability again instantly after one round.
Caterpillar B Tier Plant Growth Pet Makes leafy plants grow faster (Beanstalk, Corn, Pepper, Eggplant, etc.), but there are other crops that aren’t leafy.
Giant Ant B Tier Harvest Related Not as strong as Red Giant Ant, but it’s still useful.
Monkey B Tier Resource Pet Similar to Silver Monkey, just not as powerful.
Dog B Tier Seed Pet It’s like a low-key version of a Golden Lab.
Toucan B Tier Plant Growth & Mutation Allows your Tropical Plants (Mango, Dragon Fruit, Coconut, Cacao, and Watermelon) to mature quickly and gain a variant with a 1.18% chance.
Hedgehog B Tier Plant Growth & Variant A less powerful version of the Blood Hedgehog.
Orangutan B Tier Resource Pet It comes in handy when crafting often, as it offers a 3.43% chance to return materials to your backpack.
Crab B Tier Resource Pet Only manages to snatch around 260 to 460 Sheckles every 6 minutes.
Brown Mouse B Tier Jump Height & XP Booster Good for unlocking more pet slots since it ages fast (803.74 XP/10 min) and also boosts player jump height.
Panda B Tier Crop Value Booster Bamboo is a solid money plant, and Panda increases its price even more.
Wasp B Tier Cooldown & Mutation Shares the same abilities as Queen Bee and Tarantula Hawk, but has a weaker ability timer.
Echo Frog B Tier Plant Growth Pet Speeds up a random plant’s growth by a full day every 10 minutes.
Cat B Tier Size Booster Pretty much does the same thing as Orange Tabby.
Deer B Tier Fruit Duplicator A version of Spotted Deer with lower chances of cloning berry plants.
Sea Otter B Tier Plant Growth Pet Waters plants at different times to speed up growth, but since most crops grow pretty quickly, it mostly helps when you’re short on time or growing slower plants.
Kiwi B Tier Hatch Related A weaker version of Blood Kiwi (helps lower hatching time to 20 seconds per minute).
Owl B Tier XP Booster Shares the same abilities as Blood Owl and Night Owl, but it’s not that solid.
Cow B Tier Plant Growth Pet Helps with plant growth, making it spawn fruits real quick (about 1.12 times faster).
Rooster B Tier Hatch Related Only raises egg hatching speed by 20%.

C Tier – Early Game Helpers:

C Tier pets have basic or limited-use traits. While a few offer small advantages like duplicating crops or retaining seeds, their overall impact fades as you progress. Great for beginners or filling empty slots.

All Animals Tier Ranking Type Trait
Peacock C Tier Cooldown Pet Reduces the cooldown of all nearby critters by 61 seconds every 9.58 minutes.
Orange Tabby C Tier Size Booster Makes crops 1.5x bigger in size and weight, which increases their value.
Grey Mouse C Tier Jump Height & XP Booster A less effective version of Brown Mouse.
Bee C Tier Mutation Pet Produces Pollinated fruits, but it’s slower than Honey Bee (24.45 minutes).
Frog C Tier Plant Growth Pet Works like Echo Frog, but takes longer to activate its ability.
Chicken C Tier Hatch Related Helps a little with egg hatching (boosts speed by 10%).

D Tier – Situational or Underwhelming:

These pets provide minor boosts like small XP gains, seed refunds, or slightly faster growth. They’re not totally useless, but they’re easily outclassed by higher-tier pets and usually not worth long-term investment.

All Animals Tier Ranking Type Trait
Seagull D Tier Seed Pet May give you seeds from shoveled plants, but the odds are very low. You’re better off using a Reclaimer instead.
Black Bunny D Tier Crop Value Booster Increases a carrot’s selling value by 1.5x, but carrots aren’t a top money-maker.
Bunny D Tier Crop Value Booster Just a regular bunny that eats carrots and bumps up their selling value by 1.5x.

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Best Pets in Grow a Garden (Post 1.15.0 Update)

  • Kitsune – Steals fruits and significantly boosts their value (up to 90x); currently the strongest fruit-stealer in the game.
  • Dragonfly – Generates Gold mutations consistently, leading to high-profit fruits.
  • Butterfly – Combines mutated fruits into Rainbow variants, maximizing stacking bonuses.
  • Disco Bee – Produces Disco fruits worth 125x the original value; ideal for stacking.
  • Mimic Octopus – Copies the ability of any active pet; can act as a second Kitsune, Dragonfly, or any other top-tier pet.
  • Fennec Fox – Steals mutations from nearby gardens, including rare ones like Dawnbound or Voidtouched.
  • T-Rex – Applies valuable mutations to three random plants; strong for building mutation chains.
  • Spinosaurus – Transfers existing mutations to other plants in your garden; great for duplication.
  • Tanuki – A wildcard pet from the Zen update that can randomly bless your garden with Sheckles, mutations, or boosts.

Final Words

That wraps up our complete Grow a Garden Pet Tier List (After Zen Update).

With over 90 pets offering unique traits from mutation boosts to crop duplication choosing the right companion can make all the difference.

Whether you’re farming for profits, experimenting with plant variants, or just want the cutest critter around, this guide should help you build the perfect team.

As more updates roll out, we’ll continue refining this list to keep you ahead in the garden.

Happy farming, and may your fruits mutate in your favor!

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