There will come a time when Peanut asks for a pet. While having a pet is a good way to learn responsibility, I'm sure most of children's first pet died within the first month (speaking out of experience).
If bikes can have training wheels, why can't there be a training pet? I'm not talking about the robot puppies, but a fully decorated aquarium complete with a plastic fish. When a child is finally ready to embrace the responsibility of an animal's life and death, simply replace the dummy fish for real fish (or leave it behind for companion).
Retro Room Aquarium, $20 from the aptly named Wishing Fish.
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