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rogy On June 03, 2013




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#1New Post! Sep 14, 2010 @ 11:14:15
Who among us is invulnerable to the puppy in the pet store window? Not everyone is a dog person, of course; some people are cat people or horse people or parakeet people or albino ferret people. But human beings are a distinctly pet-loving bunch. In no other species do adults regularly and knowingly rear the young of other species and support them into old age; in our species it is commonplace. In almost every human culture, people own pets. In the United States, there are more households with pets than with children.

On the face of it, this doesn?t make sense: Pets take up resources that we would otherwise spend on ourselves or our own progeny. Some pets, it?s true, do work for their owners, or are eventually eaten by them, but many simply live with us, eating the food we give them, interrupting our sleep, dictating our schedules, occasionally soiling the carpet, and giving nothing in return but companionship and often desultory affection.

FULL STORY: https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/09/12/what_explains_the_ascendance_of_homo_sapiens_start_by_looking_at_our_pets/?page=full
treebee On April 13, 2015
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#2New Post! Sep 14, 2010 @ 11:20:58
Good article, i never really thought about it before. I dont know of any animals who keep pets other than humans.
plebian_angel On April 25, 2012
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#3New Post! Sep 14, 2010 @ 11:29:38
I agree. Good article. And I like coming home to two cats rather than an empty apartment.
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