Dragaera

domesticated animals

Wed Feb 4 14:05:18 PST 2004

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:54:35 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>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

Should have known Cecil would have tackled this.  Disappointing,
though, as it didn't really pin down an era when useless pets started
to be kept.  Just "relatively recent."


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