What is it about human beings that lead them toward pethood

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What is up with the world of pets?

People have some wild weird animals for pets. It seems people are willing to domesticate indoors anything smaller than they are. They prefer to domesticate the 500-pound and up animal on a farm (except for Ming, the Siberian Tiger below, who spent his time in the bedroom of a Harlem flat)

What is it about human beings that lead them toward "pethood" (it seems, the only species that does this)?

And what is up with the animals they choose? My niece (Free Willy's younger sister) and her friends shared a hamster or gerbil or something that size. They hid the thing in their dresser drawers to keep it from their parents. You can imagine what happened: Death in Three Weeks. It seems, gerbils don't really like sock drawers.

What do you think about the wild world of pet ownership? Are some animals too dangerous? How unfair is banning a particular animal because of its (alleged) nature to maul in perceived or real instances of self defense? Should a person be able to own any animal that person perceives he or she or they can take care of? What gives human beings the right to capture and domesticate or breed animals? Or, what gives human beings the right to capture and domesticate or breed animals for food, for that matter?

Should the government get involved and regulate what animals can and cannot serve as pets? Where do you think the line should be drawn?

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