The song's success was partly aided by a video directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris that received heavy rotation on MTV.

In Australia, "Pets" peaked at number 68 on the ARIA Singles Chart and was the 33rd most popular radio hit on the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown for 1993.

[2] Most versions of the single included the previously unreleased non-album track "Tonight", recorded during the Porno for Pyros album sessions.

"Tonight" is a cover of a song written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim in 1956 for the Broadway musical West Side Story.

All tracks are written by Porno for Pyros (Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins, Martyn LeNoble and Peter DiStefano) except where noted