Pets are servile. They depend on their owners for food and shelter. They submit to domestication. Pets exist for their masters.

True, some pets imagine that they are the masters. Our cat TJ considers himself king of the townhouse. He appears in the kitchen and is fed. He sprawls across the stairs with regal disregard for human traffic. He offers himself for affection. Then he withdraws the offer. But all this behavior is a calculated bluff. He is totally dependent on us.

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