Dragaera

domesticated animals

Thu Feb 5 05:31:28 PST 2004

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, lazarus wrote:

@> >@> 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."

I suppose that's the best we can expect from a staff report.