10 Untrustworthy Pets in Grow A Garden 2 and How to Handle Them

To pull in the highest profits possible in Grow a Garden 2, efficiency is everything. While the game features dozens of companion creatures to help tend your plots, the community has long debated which ones are actually worth your hard-earned Sheckles.

In this game, an "untrustworthy" pet doesn't just mean a creature that sneakily steals from your neighbors—it also applies to dead-weight companions that hog precious equipment slots while offering almost zero utility.

If you want to optimize your farm layout and stop wasting resources, here are the 10 most notoriously untrustworthy or low-value pets in Grow a Garden 2, along with the exact strategies to handle them.

The 10 Most Untrustworthy Pets

Before fixing your lineup, you need to know who the culprits are. The game's least reliable pets generally fall into two categories: high-risk rule-breakers or passive underperformers.

• Raccoon: A literal thief. It sneaks out at night to rob empty gardens and increases your own player steal limit.

• Red Fox: Targets neighboring plots to pinch random seeds, but suffers from an abysmally low success rate.

• Fennec Fox: A specialized thief that directly targets and steals rare fruit mutations from nearby gardens.

• Monkey: Automatically harvests your ripe fruit and brings it to you. While this sounds convenient, it completely overrides manual harvest scaling and destroys your size bonuses.

• Bunny: Hyper-fixates on searching for and eating carrots for a minor value bonus. If you aren't actively farming carrots, it goes completely AFK and becomes useless.

• Frog: Grants a flat jump height boost to the player. It sounds fun for traversal, but provides zero monetary or crop-growth utility.

• Owl: Extends your night vision distance and hoots when near rare spawns. It is simply far too situational to justify taking up a precious active slot.

• Bee: Swarms incoming intruders to invert their controls. It is vastly outclassed by top-tier defenders that completely freeze or halt thieves.

• Deer: Boosts plant growth speed by 10%. This sounds decent on paper, but it is totally redundant if you already use standard watering cans or sprinklers.

• Hedgehog: Offers a size-increase perk that exclusively benefits spiky fruits like dragon fruit, rendering it completely useless for standard crops.

How to Handle Stealing Pets (Raccoon, Red Fox, Fennec Fox)

If you are running a rogue setup, your goal is to optimize your thievery. If you are a peaceful farmer, your priority is lockdown security.

If you are using them: Pair with Mimic Octopus

To get the most out of a stealth-and-steal build, do not rely on a lone fox or raccoon. Slot multiple Mimic Octopuses alongside them. The octopus duplicates their stealth abilities, drastically increasing their low success rates and maximizing your night-time yields.

If you are defending against them: Deploy Ice Serpents or Black Dragons

Tired of neighboring foxes pillaging your rare mutations?

• Ice Serpents: Keep one on guard duty to completely freeze encroaching intruders in their tracks.

• Black Dragons: Activating a Black Dragon on your plot adds a layer of aggressive defense, automatically setting incoming thieves on fire and protecting your hard work.

How to Handle Low-Utility Pets (Monkey, Bunny, Frog, Owl, Bee, Deer, Hedgehog)

Pets that occupy active slots without generating strong profits or meaningful defense are dragging down your farm's economy. Do not just let them sit there; cycle them out systematically using these methods.

Maximize and Sell

Never flat-out delete or discard low-tier pets. Instead, level them up to their absolute maximum. Collectors in the community will pay a premium for max-level creatures, allowing you to flip useless pets for a clean Sheckle profit.

Feed the Progression System

Use these underperforming pets as fuel for your progression system to unlock extra pet equip slots. You will need level 20, 30, and 45 pets respectively to unlock these highly valuable extra slots, making your low-tier creatures perfect sacrifices.

Swap for Mutation Pets

As soon as you can, swap out passive underperformers for mythic, profit-maximizing alternatives. Creatures like the Unicorn (which doubles your Rainbow mutation chances) or the Golden Dragonfly will yield vastly superior financial returns.

Substitute Passive Buffs with Upgraded Tools

You don't need a Deer or a Monkey taking up a slot just to help with basic farm maintenance. You can easily replicate and surpass their passive growth and harvesting buffs by investing in upgraded manual gear, such as the Legendary Trowel or Advanced Sprinklers.