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." -- laz I am the Dread Pirate Roberts #23546. Ask me about franchise opportunities!