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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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[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.