On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, lazarus wrote: @> >Have we seen ANY pets in Dragerea with regards to the dominant race there? @> >I can't think of any off hand, nor can I think of them even treating thier @> >horses like anything but tools to be used. @> @> This brings up another of these anthropology questions: At what in @> our development did humans start to keep pets, as opposed to, for @> instance, domesticated dogs which were more like partners. I mean @> pets as in animals that do nothing but lounge around the home and @> provide some form of companionship, such as our cats and rats we have @> in our home. http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpetcats.html