This inquiry is inspired by people who want to be pets.

One can stay alive with the following means

• work outside
• work at home (doing house chores counts as working)
• stay mostly at home and not work
• be outside and not work
• (there are more)

It’s a combinatory game. The more people involved, the more variants there are. pet + owner is as simple as working husband + house wife; the pet might work less.