Are any of these D&D 5e questions about creatures attuning to and using magic items duplicates?

Question

The following questions about creatures attuning to/using magic items in D&D 5e are all somewhat similar, some involving specific features that may or may not actually impact the answer to their question. Are any of them duplicates?

• Are there restrictions on who can attune to magical items with no prerequisite?

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• Can an animal cast spells via a Ring of Spell Storing?
• Can a tamed owl cast spells from Ring of spell storing?
• Can my familiar use a Ring of Spell Storing?
• Can a familiar use a magic item to cast a concentration spell?
• Can a familiar from the Find Familiar spell use a Ring of Spell Storing?

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• Can beasts benefit from magic items?
• Can an animal attune to a magic item?
• Can a pet cat attune to a magical item?
• Can a familiar attune and wear or use a magic item?
• Can an Awakened creature attune to items?
• Can a Tiny Servant use a Wand of Magic Missiles?

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Notably, (ignoring recent questions) currently these 2 questions:

• Can a familiar from the Find Familiar spell use a Ring of Spell Storing?
• Can a pet cat attune to a magical item?

...are closed as duplicates of these 2 questions respectively:

• Can a familiar attune and wear or use a magic item?
• Can an animal attune to a magic item?

Answer 1

It seems there are a lot of variations based on a central theme: What are the requirements to use magic items and who can use them?

Within that scope there are variations of magic items (We can ignore items with prerequisites as they are generally more self-evident of who can use them):

• Non-attuned
• Attuned
• The Ring of Spell Storing as a specific case; there may be more

And entities:

• Normal beasts
• Awakened beasts
• Familiars
• Spectral forces (Unseen Servant, Tiny Servant, etc)

Between all that there are a dozen or more combinations; but with minor redundancy. Each must be answered in some fashion, but they are interdependent of each other. People are asking the question(s) in one-to-one relations, many-to-one relations, and one-to-many relations.

• Can a familiar (one) use a Ring of Spell Storing (one)?
• Can Awakened beasts (one) use magic items (many)?
• What normal creatures/beasts (many) can use attuned magic items (one)?

With all that said, could we really have a single question that requires the answerer to explain the whole matrix of possibilities; many-to-many? They would have to justify every combination, every permutation. While possible, it's not likely. Unless they were allowed to build their logic based on other sub/duplicate questions.

The problem comes from this being a strictly Q&A medium. Good answers need to have valid references and solid reasoning; and when the source material doesn't present the fact plainly, we rely on other questions/answers to build up a logical conclusion. So there needs to be minor questions that appear as duplicates but are actually handling specific cross-categories to be building blocks to create a foundation for the ultimate matrix.

So to that end, I would target the one-to-one style questions and mark them as duplicates of the many-to-one/one-to-many questions. We can also safely mark duplicate those that are completely redundant; A familiar is a familiar, even if they are Pact of the Chain. An owl, a pig, a snake, and a fish have similar stats when considering attunement and only really differ in physiology which is a completely different subject.

But I think there needs to be a certain amount of overlap, or perceived overlap, as each of the variations I mentioned carry unique constraints.

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Specific dupe/reopen suggestions

I've evaluated each of the RPG.SE questions you linked regarding which ones should stay open and which ones should be closed as duplicates of others (I reordered a few entries from your list to put them next to the questions they should be closed as a duplicate of):

• Are there restrictions on who can attune to magical items with no prerequisite? (Keep open)

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• Can an animal cast spells via a Ring of Spell Storing? (keep open; generic, and asking a key permutation)
• Can a tamed owl cast spells from Ring of spell storing? (too specific; would be handled above)
• Can a familiar use a magic item to cast a concentration spell? (keep open; concentration is a different wrinkle)
• Can my familiar use a Ring of Spell Storing? (this and the next are the same; close one as a duplicate of the other)
• Can a familiar from the Find Familiar spell use a Ring of Spell Storing? (this and the above are the same; close one as a duplicate of the other)

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• Can beasts benefit from magic items? (keep open; generic, and asking a key permutation of 'use')
• Can an animal attune to a magic item? (keep open; generic, and asking a key permutation of 'attune')
• Can a pet cat attune to a magical item? (close as a duplicate of the above; same as any animal attuning)
• Can a familiar attune and wear or use a magic item? (keep open; generic, and asking a key permutation)
• Can an Awakened creature attune to items? (keep open; generic, and asking a key permutation)
• Can a Tiny Servant use a Wand of Magic Missiles? (keep open for now; asking a key permutation but saying just a wand is too specific)

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The 2 pairs of questions at the bottom of your post have correctly been closed as duplicates.