How to Get Pet Mutations — Grow a Garden 2 Pets Tier List (2026)

Super Pets Mythic Pets Legendary Pets Rare, Uncommon & Common Pets

Pets' Functions

In Grow a Garden 2, pets are indispensable companions, following you and providing various passive bonuses. Each pet possesses unique abilities, broadly categorized as follows:

Economic Boosters: Increase the rate at which Sheckles are earned by increasing crop mutation rates, accelerating crop growth, and increasing seed drops.
Defensive Pets: Protect your garden from theft at night, such as freezing intruders and reversing their control.
Thief Pets: Actively steal fruit from other players' gardens, such as raccoons.
Support Pets: Provide movement speed, jump height, and increased night vision.

Note: Players can equip a maximum of 5 pets simultaneously (pet slots must be upgraded).

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Pet Mutations

Pet mutations refer to special variants that differ from standard pets in appearance and abilities. The most notable are Big & Mega Pets—larger variants of pets that can occupy an entire garden, with doubled pet skills. However, they are only occasionally obtained by hatching pet eggs, with an extremely low probability.

Checking the game's official badge data reveals that 250,329 players currently own Big Pets, while only 5,450 own Mega Pets. The game has been online for over a week, with over 400,000 players online at any given time. This near-zero probability makes acquiring them seem incredibly daunting.

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Acquisition Methods

1. Map Spawns

This is the primary acquisition method. Pets will randomly appear in the central area of the map. Each pet will display a price and a countdown timer above its head; you need to purchase it with Sheckles before the countdown ends.

2. Hatching Eggs

Players can place eggs in their garden to hatch. Currently, only Common Eggs and Epic Eggs are available. Common Eggs can only be obtained from guild rewards, while the acquisition method for Epic Eggs is currently unknown.

3. Guild Rewards

The top-tier Ice Serpent pet can only be obtained through guild activities—a reward for the top 100 guilds. There's also a mutated version of Ice Serpent.

4. Shop Purchase

Grow a Garden 2 Shop always offers a wide variety of pets, including mutated versions, at affordable prices and easy to use. Players who need them can go directly to the shop to purchase.

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Grow a Garden 2 Pets Tier List

Super Pets

Name	Price	Effect	How to Get
Ice Serpent	None	Flies around your garden and breathes frost on intruders, freezing them solid	Guild Rewards	Click to buy
Black Dragon	None	Flies around your garden and breathes fire on intruders, setting them ablaze	Guild Rewards	Click to buy
Raccoon	15,000,000 Sheckles	Sneaks out at night to steal fruit from empty gardens and raises your steal limit by +25	Map Spawn (0.24%)/Common Egg (0.2%)	Click to buy

Tip: Later on, pets with advanced defensive skills will appear; these pets can then team up to protect the garden at night.

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Mythic Pets

Name	Price	Effect	How to Get
Bear	5,000,000 Sheckles	Defends your garden by tackling intruders, pinning them down, then throwing them away	Map Spawn (0.225%)	Click to buy
Unicorn	12,000,000 Sheckles	Trots around your garden and doubles the chance for plants and fruit to turn Rainbow naturally	Map Spawn (0.71%)/Common Egg (0.3%)	Click to buy
Golden Dragonfly	9,000,000 Sheckles	Flies around your garden and doubles the chance for plants and fruit to turn Gold naturally	Map Spawn (0.6%)/Common Egg (0.3%)	Click to buy
Monkey	3,000,000 Sheckles	Swings around your garden and occasionally picks ripe fruit and brings it straight to you	Map Spawn (0.2%)	Click to buy

Tip: Unicorn and Golden Dragonflie are good support mutated pets; it's recommended to keep them in the garden long-term.

Legendary Pets

Name	Price	Effect	How to Get
Bee	1,000,000 Sheckles	Patrols your garden and swarms intruders, inverting their controls and placing a red overlay on their screen	Map Spawn (2.38%)/Common Egg (4.5%)	Click to buy
Robin	75,000 Sheckles	Flies around your garden eating ripe fruit and sometimes drops seeds. The higher rarity the fruit, the lower the chance of the seed dropping.	Map Spawn (2.86%)/Common Egg (4.5%)	Click to buy

Rare, Uncommon & Common Pets

Name	Rarity	Price	Effect	How to Get
Turtle	Rare	70,000 Sheckles	Lugs a heavy shell that adds +10 backpack space but slows your walk speed by 2	Map Spawn (3.75%)	Click to buy
Deer	Rare	50,000 Sheckles	Trots around your garden and helps plants grow 10% faster	Map Spawn (4.29%)/Common Egg (20%)	Click to buy
Owl	Uncommon	25,000 Sheckles	Extends your view distance by 12.5% at night and hoots loudly when a rare pet spawns	Map Spawn (7.14%)	Click to buy
Bunny	Common	20,000 Sheckles	Hops around your garden and boosts your walk speed by +5	Map Spawn (11.9%)/Common Egg (30%)	Click to buy
Frog	Common	10,000 Sheckles	Hops around your garden and boosts your jump height by +5	Map Spawn (11.9%)/Common Egg (30%)	Click to buy