Hmmmmm... My characters have different takes on the question.
Starting with the Stellvians:
And the others:
Ramona Jackson practically lives in the cockpit of her replica Arrow, Avril; there's no room for a pet in one of those.
Maico Tange is just barely getting by; she can't afford to keep a pet... although she'd love to be able to afford one (maybe a cat).
Naoko Sato has a pet rabbit, which she's named Usagi.
(And Eimi occasionally tries to keep a virtual tamagotchi alive, without much success...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Starting with the Stellvians:
- Noah doesn't keep a pet - he's got too much to worry about with his two-legged companions (especially Kohran) and the paying guests.
- Leda usually sees animals as sources of genetic material. (The girl's got no romance in her soul...)
- Sora and Kohran are more interested in machines than in pets.
- Yayoi likes pikachu, and pikachu like Yayoi... but Yayoi's too busy flying and keeping Stellvia running to have the time to devote to a pet, and she's too considerate to keep a pet that she can't provide enough attention to.
- Safety would be dwarfed by anything bigger than a mouse - it isn't safe for her to keep a pet. That said, she loves pomeranians.
- Miyuri spends more time at Stellvia's telescope than in her quarters. (She wants a bigger telescope - one big enough to show up on the Stellvia CG model. She isn't getting one any time soon.) For her, animals are "things underfoot", not "pets".
- Takami is afraid of cats. To stay on the safe side, she doesn't keep any pets.
- Shizuka hasn't given the matter any thought yet.
- Kagome has two pet hamsters (both female), named Yuriko and Chinami.
And the others:
Ramona Jackson practically lives in the cockpit of her replica Arrow, Avril; there's no room for a pet in one of those.
Maico Tange is just barely getting by; she can't afford to keep a pet... although she'd love to be able to afford one (maybe a cat).
Naoko Sato has a pet rabbit, which she's named Usagi.
(And Eimi occasionally tries to keep a virtual tamagotchi alive, without much success...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012