(December 20, 2022 at 10:27 am)paulpablo Wrote:(December 20, 2022 at 12:51 am)Jehanne Wrote: 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.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.
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.
Agreed. It seems that cats have domesticated Us as much as we have domesticated Them.
