Is there certain pets, obviously pending that person being a pet fan, that just once in your life you have to have either owned or pet-minded.
Pardon the pun but I reckon most pet loving children have minded their schools stick insect and the class ginea pig.
Rabbits are there for families with young children, although not to young, as I have heard that my brothers little boy dropped a stone on the head of his rabbit that was recently purchased.
As you grow up you become a cat fan or a dog man and every pet loving family should have 1 or the other, sometimes both whilst when you get older parrots and budgies enter the fray as there low maintenance in your older years.