Permission to be vulnerable
The structure makes it safe.
Everyone gets excited about getting a pet. Almost no one plans for living with one.
The 60 questions to answer before you bring one home and the plan that keeps “forever home” true.
- 100% digital on your phone
- 60 questions 10 categories
- For couples, families, flatmates
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Most people find out what kind of pet owner they are about three months in.
Not because anything dramatic happened. No disaster. No bad dog.
Just the slow realisation that the daily reality looks nothing like the picture. Somewhere between bringing them home and the first vet bill, you never agreed on who does what.
None of this means you shouldn’t have a pet.
You were excited. You just filled in the blanks about each other, and got some of them wrong.
Before Getting a Pet exists so the animal never pays for that.
And by the time you find out, they’re already home:
- The first big vet bill lands— you discover one of you budgeted $500 a year and the other never budgeted at all.
- The 6am walk becomes one person’s job— it was never discussed. It just happened, and now it’s resentment.
- Life changes— a new job, a move, a breakup, and suddenly no one knows what happens to the animal you both promised to look after.
Here’s what actually catches people off guard.
It’s not that they didn’t love the animal. It’s that nobody told them which conversations to have first.
Not the shelter.
They checked your fence and your landlord’s approval. Not whether you agreed on anything.
Not the breeder.
They told you about temperament and lineage. Not what you’d do when the money runs out.
Not your friends.
They sent puppy photos and name ideas. The conversations that decide whether a pet stays for life? Nobody mentioned them.
The conversations nobody mentioned. Questions like:
Pets don’t get given up for lack of love. They get given up for lack of a plan.
What happens if one of us ends up doing 90% of the work?
If we break up, who keeps the pet?
Are we getting a pet for the right reasons, or to fill a gap?
What if the pet needs surgery that costs thousands?
Are we willing to give up spontaneous weekends away?
Before Getting a Pet is where you ask them. All 60 of them.
Pick One · Before Getting a Pet
Not a readiness quiz. Not a pet-care checklist. Not a lecture.
60 questions across 10 categories, designed to get you both on the same page before a living thing depends on it.
Those are exactly the ones that matter:
- The ones that feel slightly awkward to ask.
- The ones where one of you says “I just assumed…”
- The ones you’d rather answer now than at the vet’s front desk.
The best pet owners aren’t the ones who wanted it most. They’re the ones who planned for it together.
The 10 areas where people think they’re ready, and often aren’t.
- 01
Readiness & Reasons
Are you both equally excited, or is one of you carrying the dream for two?
- 02
Finances
Food, vet, insurance, boarding. Do you know what this actually costs per year, and who pays?
- 03
Time & Schedule
Who’s home? Who walks? Is anyone home at all between 8 and 6?
- 04
Lifestyle & Travel
Spontaneous trips, late nights, weekends away. What are you willing to trade?
- 05
Living Situation
The lease, the landlord, the next move. Will you choose housing around this animal?
- 06
Responsibilities
Feeding, cleaning, vet visits. Who owns what, and what happens when it gets uneven?
- 07
Choosing the Right Pet
Puppy or senior, shelter or breeder, couch potato or athlete. Who are you actually equipped for?
- 08
Training & Behaviour
Chewed sofas, anxiety, a bite. How much patience and money do you have?
- 09
Health & Hard Calls
Chronic illness, surgery, the end. Where’s your line, and is it the same as theirs?
- 10
Worst-Case Scenarios
A breakup, a baby, a job loss. What happens to the pet when life changes?
Every conversation before you bring them home, all in one app.
60 questions, 10 categories, custom decks, built-in journal.
Here’s what makes Pick One different.
It’s not a conversation guide. It’s not a therapy exercise. It’s not a list of questions you awkwardly read from a piece of paper. It’s a game. And that changes everything.
You ask
“So… who’s actually going to walk it?”
Walls go up↑It sounds like an accusation. They get defensive, promise “we’ll figure it out,” and the conversation ends there.
The app asks
“What does a normal Tuesday look like once the pet is home?”
Walls come down↓Nobody’s being tested. You’re both answering. Curiosity, not interrogation.
What makes it safe
The questions are already there
You don’t have to figure out what to ask.
Zero prep, zero planning
Just open the app on your phone.
Fun, easy, no stress
Spin the wheel. Laugh first. Go deeper when you’re ready.
And somehow, in that safety, the things that never get said, get said. Not because you pushed harder. Because the game made it safe to go there.
This isn’t about talking you out of it. It’s about getting it right.
Most people who go through Before Getting a Pet still get the pet, just with a plan.
Where you’re aligned
You go in confident, not hopeful.
Where you differ
You sort it out now, calmly, before a 2am vet emergency makes it a fight.
What you didn’t know
The assumptions you never said out loud, until now.
And the animal gets what it was promised: a home that doesn’t change its mind.
One conversation now. A home that lasts their whole life.
Before Getting a Pet
$29
One time. Yours forever.
- 60 essential questions across 10 categories
- Built for the hard parts, not the cute parts
- For couples, families and anyone sharing the care
- Use together at dinner, on a drive, before you choose your pet
- Part of the Pick One app, always on your phone
- Built-in diary to save your answers and come back to them
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Instant access | 100% digital | Yours forever
Part of the Pick One family, built for people who take every big decision seriously, including the one with four legs.
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Open Pick One at dinner tonight
Spin the wheel for the first question
Watch what happens
One app. One question.
One real conversation.
Just one question.
On your phone, over dinner, on the way to meet them. And the conversation that follows is the one you’ll be glad you had.
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