How to Get Pets in Greedy Growers
How to get pets in Greedy Growers — earn tickets at the Farmer's Market, buy the right egg at the Pet Shop, and hatch it on your plot.
Pets arrived in Greedy Growers with the Pets update, and they’ve changed how the endgame works: passives that find free seeds, speed up growth, and even block lightning strikes. Getting your first pet is a straightforward four-step loop — Tickets, egg, plot, hatch — but doing it efficiently is what this guide covers.
The Four Steps to Your First Pet
1. Earn Tickets at the Farmer’s Market
Tickets come from the Farmer’s Market: talk to the NPC, check which fruits are currently requested, grow them, collect the fruit, and deliver. A single delivery pays up to 200 Tickets, and the request board refreshes roughly every 24 hours. The full economics are in our Tickets guide.
Codes stack on top — the active ILOVECATS code alone covers an entire Common Egg.
2. Buy an Egg at the Pet Shop
The Pet Shop sits right next to the Farmer’s Market. Five eggs are for sale:
| Egg | Cost | Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Common Egg | 100 Tickets | Squirrel, Bunny, Mouse |
| Rare Egg | 200 Tickets | Dog, Cat, Robin |
| Epic Egg | 500 Tickets | Chicken, Roach, Woodpecker |
| Legendary Egg | 1,000 Tickets | Cow, Sheep, Pig, Raccoon |
| Mythic Egg | 2,000 Tickets | Frog, Magpie, Turtle, Monkey, Alligator |
3. Place the Egg on Your Plot
Eggs don’t hatch in your inventory — place them on your plot and let the timer run.
4. Hatch and Equip
When the egg hatches, you get one random pet from that egg’s pool. Equip your best three; their passives stack and run while they’re on the plot.
The Golden Rule: Target the Egg, Not the Pet
You cannot choose which pet hatches — the only lever you control is which egg you buy. Since every hatch is a random pull from the pool:
- Want Robin? All Tickets go to Rare Eggs until one appears. Spreading Tickets across tiers is how you end up with a bench of pets you didn’t want.
- Duplicates are part of the plan. There’s no pity system — hatching toward one specific pet means passing its pool-mates on the way.
- Rarity ≠ usefulness. Some of the best pets in the game (Robin, Cat, Dog) live in the 200-Ticket Rare Egg, while several 2,000-Ticket Mythics are situational. The rankings are in the best pets guide.
Which Egg Should You Buy First?
| Situation | Egg | Why |
|---|---|---|
| First pet, any budget | Common (100t) | One code or one delivery covers it; learn the system |
| First good pet | Rare (200t) | Dog/Cat/Robin — every pull is a long-term keeper |
| Mid-game, seed income matters | Epic (500t) | Woodpecker turns your grove into a seed farm |
| Leveling other pets | Legendary (1,000t) | Sheep is the XP engine |
| Free eggs / lightning defense / Mythic fruit | Mythic (2,000t) | Magpie, Turtle, Monkey — the specialists |
The common recommendation: skip the Common Egg if you can wait half a day. Two Farmer’s Market cycles (or one delivery plus a code) puts a Rare Egg in reach, and every Rare pull stays useful forever.
How Pets Actually Work on Your Plot
- Three equip slots, four with Robux. Passives stack across all equipped pets.
- Placed pets run their passives — a Robin on your plot keeps finding seeds while you do anything else.
- Pets level up, and Sheep accelerates the leveling of everything equipped alongside it.
- Four pets apply mutations directly: Roach (Infested), Pig (Huge), Frog (Slimy), Alligator (Scaled) — a parallel stream to weather mutations.
FAQ
How do I get pets in Greedy Growers?
Earn Tickets at the Farmer’s Market (up to 200 per delivery), buy an egg at the Pet Shop next door, place it on your plot, and let it hatch into one random pet from that egg’s pool.
Can I choose which pet hatches from an egg?
No. Every hatch is random within the egg’s pool. The only control you have is buying the egg that contains your target pet and hatching until it drops.
How much do pet eggs cost?
100 Tickets (Common) to 2,000 Tickets (Mythic). The full price-and-pool table is in the pet list.
Where is the Pet Shop in Greedy Growers?
Right next to the Farmer’s Market — deliberately, since Market deliveries fund Pet Shop purchases.
What was the fastest first egg?
Redeem the active codes (100 Tickets as of August 2026), then complete one Farmer’s Market request — that’s a Common Egg instantly or a Rare Egg after a single delivery cycle.