Gives you kind of a different perspective on wild yukkuris, as shitheads as they may be. In their eyes, pet yukkuris are the most perfect yukkuris because they're clean and groomed and don't have to face the same adversities, inconveniences and pain as them. But in reality pet yukkuris are only glorified yukkuris who are mediocre without their owner and don't last much if left abandoned, as opposed to wild yukkuris who have to learn how to survive and stand hardships like avoiding humans as best as possible, hunt for insects and grass that isn't too bitter for them, and get used to getting their foot bruised by pebbles and grass from the very moment they're born.
So this is what the difference between pet and stray...also many story' don't train their pet to hunt and defense themself like what aglet story' do at last i really like this kind story' about pet yukkuri difference and stupidity
Pretty sure that avoid human and used to bruised like pebbles is the trait shared only to stray, as wild very much doesn't have lots of chances to interact with people to know how scary they are, as evidence by lots of pools about when a yukkuri clan thinks that they can subjugate human, major of them are wild one, and the wilderness doesn't have a stone road but only grass, which is just a little harder than carpet.
As for the pet part: it's true that they are useless but the same can be said for a normal pet if you are not educate them. Just like zoo animals can have a hard time adapting to wildlife if they have lived in the cage for the moment they were born; everything, including yukkuri, need learning and teaching in order to grow. Even this pool show that Myon can help Miss to take it easy, it's all come down to teaching and education.
The difference between those two is that Mister in aglet's stories trains their pet for a gold/platinum badge, while Miss just picks Maricha from a sales wagon, the place probably for abusers, so it is understandable that Mister's "pets" know those techniques while Miss one doesn't.
Pet yu - normal types or badge ones (including gold or platinum) needs intense training to become a nicehead, yukkuri's nature are insolent, ungrateful and delusion, they forget bad memory by excreting shit or poo-poo in yu vocabulary, only traumatic experience can imprint long-term memory into their paste core. Living in luxury condition, eating delicious food are the fastest way to turn nicehead into shithead, discipline without mercy, giving normal food or grass, and training them everyday will keep pet yukkuri nicehead.
In big.g pool, a badge Reimu was raised in good condition, but she shows insolent attitude when her owner refuses her request; after she gives birth, she says to her kos that her owner is her SLAVE.