(December 20, 2022 at 12:51 am)Jehanne Wrote:But lots of domesticated animals become stray, and there's degrees of domestication. I don't think there's a strict precise definition of what's stray, feral, wild and so on. I heard somewhere for example that pigs change quite rapidly without human contact and turn wild quite easily. I don't think a scientist would be able to observe this process and be able to state at precisely what time the animal became stray, feral or wild.(December 19, 2022 at 11:04 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Likewise you can tell the difference between animal species scientifically, but the category "pet" is a social construction.
Biologists have excellent answers to these questions. A pet is a nonhuman animal that lives with or at least among humans, in a dependent (or, in the case of cats, a feigned dependent) relationship such that the animal in question would likely die of natural causes if the humans did not continue to provide for them.
A spider would be a good example of how it can be my pet if I think it is and be a pest also if I think it is.
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