The Benefits of Owning a Pet
A pet, also called a companion animal or domestic animal, is any animal kept primarily for affection, pleasure, or as a source of entertainment, as opposed to being a working animal, livestock, or laboratory animal. People have kept pets since ancient times, and the pet/owner relationship has long been unabashedly sentimentalized in art, music, and literature. The love between Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus is well known, and in...