Origin: Germany
Lifespan: 10-12 years
Boxers are energetic, playful and patient especially with children with guarding instinct and thrive on companionship. They tend to show chewing and licking behaviours when bored so does need regular exercise or playtime.

Origin: Germany
Lifespan: 10-13 years
Another breed of the german origin that has been ranked among the most intelligent dog breeds. They are extremely loyal and makes for a excellent working and guard dog. Highly trainable and can adapt to the indian climate.

Origin: Germany
Lifespan: 8-10 years
Another German dog but with high territorial instinct and robustness. They tend to get aggressive towards strangers and other dogs and needs training to keep a controlled temperament. They make excellent guard dogs and thrive better in cooler climates.

Origin: Scotland
Lifespan: 10-12 years
Combine a Scottish lineage to Labrador with addition of a fluffier coat to the mix and you get the Golden Retriever. Sometimes used as a gun dog meaning used to retrieve hunts they are excellent family pets sharing most characteristics to that of labrador. Some online videos suggested them having sense of humour as being able to act silly in presence of their owners or other pets. Some report suggested of certain lineages can be or are aggressive so make sure to collect information on lineage prior adoption.

Origin: Indian Subcontinent
Lifespan: 10-13 years
The commonly found street dog but certainly not ordinary as their temperament have the perfect balance of loyalty, independence, intelligence, guarding instinct, agility, trainable, patience and even colours. One can find them in combination of colours that other breeds cannot match. They have a distinct odour on them and also employed as police dogs other than Labradors and Belgian Shepherds . Extremely resilient not only to temperatures of the Indian plains but also one can see them adapted in the hills to have thicker coats. They also do not need any kind of specific diet and with proper care sometime they can live up to 20 years or more. It can be said they are seriously underrated.

Origin: Croatia
Lifespan: 10-13 years
With origin traced back to modern day Croatia their spotted coat create a striking appearance. Their short coat makes them highly suitable to indian conditions. They are intelligent and trainable and need mental stimulation to keep them content. They do tend to suffer from health issues like deafness, hip dysplasia, arthritis.

Origin: United States
Lifespan: 13-14 years
The Maine Coon is a large domesticated cat breed. It is one of the oldest natural breeds in North America. The breed originated in the U.S. state of Maine, where it is the official state cat.

Origin: Thailand
Lifespan: 10-15 years
The Siamese cat is one of the first distinctly recognised breeds of Asian cat. Derived from the Wichianmat landrace, one of several varieties of cats native to Thailand, the original Siamese became one of the most popular breeds in Europe and North America in the 19th century.

Origin: United States
Lifespan: 12-16 years
The Bengal cat is a breed of hybrid cat created from crossing of an Asian leopard cat, with domestic cats, especially the spotted Egyptian Mau.

Origin: Iran, United States, Thailand
Lifespan: 9-15 years
The Himalayan, is a breed or sub-breed of long-haired cat similar in type to the Persian, with the exception of its blue eyes and its point colouration, which were derived from crossing the Persian with the Siamese.

Origin: Australia, Indonesia
Lifespan: 5-15 years
They were first captured in Australia in 1801 and the Indonesian finch was first recorded in 1817.
The Indonesian kind is smaller and is the one generally found in pet shops. It takes about 14 days to incubate the egg. There are features that the growth of the embryo is different from that of a chicken, a precocial bird, because a Zebra Finch is an altricial bird that has different stages of growth and a shorter incubation time. Female zebra finches show a preference for mates with a dialect similar to the one of their adolescent peers.

Origin: Sigapore (only fluorescent ones)
Lifespan: 3-8 years(depending upon species)
This glofish term is allocated to those genetically modified fish kinds that have the fluorescent colours in them. There are glotiger/globarbs, glowidows, gloskirts, glozebra and even glofighter.They have a special fluorescence gene that produces colour which were said to be extracted from jellyfishes.
They were first made in back 1999 in Singapore to detect presence of toxins in water. The glofish patents stated it to be illegal to breed and sell glofishes but it maybe invalid in India alongside other asian nations. Most show schooling behaviour(zebra, skirt, barbs/tigers) and you may consider to get more than one pair of the same colour. They grow upto a maximum of 2 inch and are easy to maintain in small or big fishtanks.

Origin: Central and Northern South America
Lifespan: upto 5 years
The common molly originally came from the fresh and brackish waters of Mexico and Columbia.
The males tend to be mildly aggressive and they come in variety of colors like black, white, spotted, orange. They have a high reproduction rate and give birth to offsprings even in aquarium settings. Many breeders and owners have stated that female mollies tend to suffer from birth complications and die before, during and after giving birth.

Origin: Northeastern South America
Lifespan: upto 2 years
One of the most abundant tropical tropical fish were originally used as mosquito controllers to eat mosquito larvae. The females can start to give birth in aquarium setting by 10 weeks upto 30 weeks and since they give birth to a large number of offsprings one’s fish tank will never fall short of them and being top feeders they stay near the water surface most of the time.
Diet includes mosquito larvae and other aquatic worms and other aquatic insects and plant matter.

Origin: Southeast Asia
Lifespan: 2-5 years
With origins in the rice puddles of Southeast Asia were domesticated around 1000 years ago were used in betting battles in Siam(Thailand) which is why they are also known as Siamese fighting fish. They have high intelligence and have been known to be trainable to do tricks like jumping out of water and passing through hoops. The males get very aggressive towards other males. They have a special labyrinth organ that allows them to directly breathe directly from air. Today the native fighter species are given the status of vulnerable due to gradual habitat loss.

Origin: Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin
Lifespan: 10-15 years
Angel fish is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family Cichlids known to most aquarists. The three species of angelfish are unusually shaped for Cichlids being greatly laterally compressed, with round bodies and elongated triangular dorsal and anal fins. This body shape allows them to hide among roots and plants, often on a vertical surface. They prey on small fishes and invertebrate. They form monogamous pairs and cares for their young ones until they grow up.

Origin: Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Korea
Lifespan: 1-5 years
This fish are native to Asia from the Indian Subcontinent to Southeast Asia and northeasterly towards Korea. The name “Gourami” is of Indonesian origin. As labyrinth fishes, Gouramis have a lung-like labyrinth organ that allows them to gulp air and use atmospheric oxygen like the bettas. The giant gourami is eaten in some parts of the world.

Origin: Indonesia
Lifespan: 5-10 Years
They are generally found in the shallow clear or turbid moderately flowing streams of Indonesia and Borneo. Their average lifespan is 7 years. When exposed to decreased temperature levels, the Tiger barb fish experiences a change in body colour. The male fish tend to display a bright red colour in the dorsal fin, ventral fin, caudal fin, and snout. When the water temperature drops to 21 °C, both the male and the female fish were observed to have a decayed body colour. When the temperature decreases even further to 19 °C, their distinct stripes even appear to be dimmed.
The globarbs are available in deep fluorescent pink and green colours. They should be atleast kept in a school of six or more of the same kind.

Origin: Southeast Asia
Lifespan: 3-5 years
Also known as the Zebrafish is an abundantly available fish found in shallow, still to moderately flowing streams and rice paddies of Indian Subcontinent and other Southeast Asian nations. Algae and other small insects includes primary diet, They Start to reproduce within three months and the spawn is higher under optimal conditions. They also exhibit schooling behaviour and six to ten of one kind.
The first glofishes was actually the fluorescent green danios.

Origin: Taiwan, Malaysia
Lifespan: 8-10 years
A fairly recent breed said to be made from the giant gouramis with the first coming out in the mid 1990s noted for their vivid colours and the distinctively shaped heads for which they are named after. Their head protuberance is formally called a nuchal hump. There are several ways by which breeders distinguish between male and female flower horns. Generally, the males are larger than the females, but there are some exceptions. Males have the kok, or the nuchal hump, on their foreheads. Males also usually have brighter and more vivid colours. For most breeds, the females have black dots on their dorsal fins, whereas males usually have longer anal and dorsal fins. They have been banned in Australia.

Origin: Amazon Basin
Lifespan: 10-15 years
Due to their calm temperament, vivid colours and patterns and dedicated parenting techniques The discus fish has attracted a cult following of collectors and has created a multimillion dollar international industry complete with shows, competitions, and reputable online breeders in several countries in Asia particularly Thailand where it is a major industry. Sexual maturity is reached in a year. When breeding, the pair moves away from the group, possibly to reduce the risk of cannibalism of the young. Additionally, adult discus produce a secretion ("discus milk")through their skin, on which the fry live during their first 4 weeks. They are a delicate kind and a discus only tank or with angelfish is best for them.