Animals for the Ethical Treatment of Us
Question for those more familiar with the subject:
In “serious” works where the sentients are anthropomorphic animals, do they keep pets?
Would Zannah have a kitty? Or a dachshund? (She did have a Targ plushy in that recent picture.)
Just wondering.
Tags: philosophy
*chuckles* Actually, Zanny did have a couple of pets as a kid. Haven’t defined all of that part of ehr life yet, but she did have a kind of dog-sized furry lizard thing that was essentially her world’s version of a doberman at one point. There’s even a picture of the thing somewhere in my files, but I don’t think it’s among the pics I have scanned. Given that I never throw out even my crappy old art from high school, I probably still have it somewhere.
Usagi Yojimbo did have a pet tokage (lizard), Spot for a while, and the Panda, Lord Noriyuki has a pet dog. According to Stan, people in his world just know the difference between intelligent and non-intelligent animals– for instance, you might see an intelligent horse riding a non-intelligent one.