What's The Use of a Pet?

I grew up watching western cartoons and movies where kids had pets. It was like a childhood requirement, a pet the child could soliloquise in its present.


I had neighbours that had a pet, it was a dog. I can't remember the name but it was a stubborn bastard. Like on certain days the dog 'no go look face' and begin to chase us around the building. It was fun/scary at the same time until someone got bit.


To be honest, I had no reason people owned pets. A babe once asked if I had one what would it be. I replied, "a fish". She asked why and I explained. A fish got to stay in its bowl and needed little to no attention to survive. In the event the fish was stubborn and get out of the bowl...dead. The babe said my kind of pet signified the type of babe of I would like. That was true though. A babe that would know her place and if she got out of the 'bowl'....'Dead'.


Anyway, I visited a neighbour with a 2-3 years old son recently. The boy was hyper...none of us could keep up with his singing, kicking, dancing, jumping...we definitely weren't on steriods but his was all natural. That was when it hit me, the reason for pets. If this kid had a dog it would definitely match his fitness and kept him busy.


That was the suggestion I had for his mum. Your boy needs a dog. That's my new use for pets, to keep people busy. Girls could also get a stubborn dog for their boyfriends, a dog that would constitute enough nuisance to preoccupy him and keep him home most of the time.