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[kestreldawn]

It seems that having small, sentient companions is rather common here on Earth. Can someone explain why so many people seem to want and/or have them? Especially when they are incredibly small and seem to serve no purpose in terms of protection or strength?

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[kestreldawn]

I suppose that's true.

.. Why? Are you planning on getting one?

[reexamined]

No, I'm not.

But Cassian has been feeding six stray cats that live in this neighborhood in our back yard.

[kestreldawn]

If they're strays, don't they roam about? Having a dog - even if it doesn't particularly like cats - wouldn't be too much of an issue, I wouldn't think.

[reexamined]

Well you can go ahead and explain that to Cassian when the dog scares them all away for good.

[kestreldawn]

[She lets out a small huff.] I'm sure the cats are able to hold their own, if it came to it. They have sharp claws, don't they?

[reexamined]

Now you want stray cats to attack our future dog.

[kestreldawn]

If it's in self-defense, yes. I'd hope the dog would be able to hold its own, as well.

[reexamined]

Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a hamster or a ferret?

[kestreldawn]

[She makes a face at this.] No, they're rodents.

[reexamined]

So? They're domesticated rodents.

[kestreldawn]

One has to wonder how domesticated wild animals - rodent or not - can truly be.

[reexamined]

A dog is the result of hundreds of years worth of a domestication of a wild animal. A domesticated rodent is the same.

[kestreldawn]

Hundreds of years in the grand scheme of the universe is hardly a droplet of water in a lake.