Dresser Dollhouse

my mom doesn.t feel like taking care of another pet, so i need something low maintenance that a lazy teenager could take care of

i know that some turtles are pretty low maintenance, but i.m not sure about their intelligence

my mom told me about her rats that she had when she was little && how one of them would jump out of the cage, work it.s way across the room onto a bookcase && pick cheerios out of a dollhouse dresser && bring them back to her cage.

that made me want a pet that would be friendly, relatively low maintenance, and intelligent/entertaining/trainable [kind of] that lives a relatively short life, somewhere around five years give or take a year or two.

are there any pets like this that aren.t cats, dogs, fish, lizards, or snakes?

any additional info about a critter you recommend is preferred :]