Gunna preface any of my negativity/"this is bad" stuff with the fact that it's my personal opinion, and I'm not saying anything to bash on the original designers of any of the pets. Everyone has their own personal tastes which is definitely what is showcased in this poll!
My ratings may be a little bit off of what other people rate things as? I'm realizing I might have been weird about the numbers and might need to re-evaluate some of my answers.
For me, 1-3 is active dislike.
1 is I hate it. If you send me a trade with this in it, unless for some reason I have other 1's on my list on my side, I will decline.
2 and 3 are more like, a great dislike of it. Something could hit a 3 if it's design is mid but I hate the lines of the pet, like rabbits all fall around 3 for me because I don't like the rabbit lines, they're not as bad as the rat lines, but they are kind of.. eh (pps rabbits i would die for though), even if most of them are mid in terms of design. If a rabbit was a dog, and the design was okay, it'd hit a 6. But because it's a rabbit, it'd drop to a 4. (I.E.: Blue Sorbet bun is a 6, because rabbits are 3's, and dogs are 5s if they're mid. The Blue Sorbet is an 8, so the Blue Sorbet bun is a 6.)
4-6 are Neutral.
4 is neutral but I dislike it more than i like it
5 is straight neutral, its mid
6 is its neutral but i like it more than i dislike it. A 6 might be on my wishlist, it might not be.
7-9 are "I like it, it's probably on my wishlist, but it isn't the best of the best"
7 directly hit that quote above. "I like it. It's alright."
8 is "This is a pretty good design"
9 is "With a few tweaks, this could be one of my favorite pets on the website."
and 10 is "I love it." I would actively seek out trading for it to keep it in my collection, forever.
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Glad to see UR Holly around average/good opinion. I love my little Wintergreen and she's never going anywhere.

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I'm surprised at how many people like the Zebras, they're a solid 1 for me. All of them look too similar to be 3 separate pets, I kind of hate the lines they're on, and I'm not the biggest fan of realistic pets to begin with.
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The ur foal seems so middling, I didn't know it was so controversial! I think it has a really good design. It was an 8 for me.
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I think my biggest discrepancy between similar looking pets were the coontail and the noncoon, as well as the BEG and CEG.
The Coontail was a 3 and the Noncoon was an 8 for me. The blue in the noncoon just makes it look so much better. When it's brown it all blends together and the tail isn't my favorite, it actually kind of makes the entire pet blend together and look worse to the point where an okay-ish design becomes something I actually start to dislike. So I'm actually surprised that the coontail seemed to be just a little more popular in the polls.
As for the BEG and CEG
BEG was a 3, similar issue to the coontail, and CEG is a solid 10.
It's the eyes and the swirls. I'm not a fan of the black eyes, the swirls kinda look bad on it, and the white sock on its back leg looks uh.. Out of place, to say the least. I don't hate it, but I definitely dislike it.
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Almost all of the rabbits were a 3 for me. I just don't like the rabbit lines, the ones that weren't a 3 happened to be based on other pets that I do like, because I do think it's cute that they reference pet patterns in the rabbits sometimes, unless they referenced a pet I didn't like, and that dropped them down to a 2.
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My highest rated Rat was the skeleton Rat at a 6. I think I'd actually trade for that thing.
For a frame of reference, none of the other rats got above a 3 (shoutout to the Tiger Rat)
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The only dogs that hit a 1 were the Grinners.
Don't like how similar they are and I don't like their expression. The grinner's are somebody's cup of tea, but they sure as heck aren't mine.