cheap pet?

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guinea pig - fits all of the criteria, especially the affectionate, which most small critters arent. They will run away, and never come out, but if you take the time to "win them over" and we're taliking a year or more, they'll get there in the end. If yo smother it with attention, one is ok, but uch better for them if you get two.
 
Budgie! After a few months they will fly to your hand, sit on your shoulder, are very playful and extremely low maintenance (well, you have to clean cage/room at least once a week, but its not that much hassle)
 
Budgies are quite cheap, especially if you get the cage online - bay or freecycle etc.

In all honesty tho, if you have little disposable income is being responsible for another living thing the right thing to do?
 
Cockatiel!

If you buy one as a chick then it will be properly house trained as it grows.

I trained mine to loot money:

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Bought him for £45 when he was only about 2 weeks old.
 
danza said:
Rats make the best cheap pets IME. I've tried most, and always had the best luck with rats.

-Hamsters are often psychotic
-Rabbits go senile/evil
-Guinea pigs don't do anything (and my main reason for thinking guinea pigs are a no-no is that they are so petrified of everything that you can touch their eyeballs before they blink)
-Gerbils are noisy and eat through anything
-Mice are rats for poor people...so why not get a rat?
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I agree with this. Mice and Rats are easily the most mentally stable rodents you can buy. Most of the other's can/will turn into psychopaths. Gerbils are okay, but they can get really smelly (they have concentrated urine because they're desert animals) and they like to have a thick layer of litter to burrow into, and you can't really disturb them when they're down there.

I'd get a female mouse or rat. Nicest personalities.... the female ones don't smell (dont get a male) and they're one of the easiest to encourage to become diurnal (hamsters and gerbils prefer to be nocturnal).
 
Degu

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Chinchilla

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I nursed one of these when I lived in Africa (was an awesome 'pet' until we released it):

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