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0A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company, protection, and/or entertainment rather than as a working animal, sport animal, livestock, or laboratory animal. Popular pets are often noted for their attractive appearances, and their loyal or playful personalities.
Pets provide their owners (or guardians[1]) physical and emotional benefits. Walking a dog can supply both the human and pet with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction. Pets can give companionship to elderly adults who do not have adequate social interaction with other people, as well as to other people who are living alone. There is a medically approved class of therapy animals, mostly dogs or cats, that are brought to visit confined humans, such as children in hospitals or elders in nursing homes. Pet therapy utilizes trained animals and handlers to achieve specific physical, social, cognitive, and emotional goals with patients.
The most popular pets are likely dogs and cats but people also keep house rabbits, ferrets; rodents such as gerbils, hamsters, chinchillas, fancy rats, and guinea pigs; avian pets, such as canaries, parakeets, corvids, parrots, and chickens; reptile pets, such as turtles, lizards and snakes; aquatic pets, such as goldfish, tropical fish and frogs; and arthropod pets, such as tarantulas and hermit crabs.
Some scholars, ethicists and animal rights organizations have raised concern over pet-keeping with regards to the autonomy and objectification of nonhuman animals
寵物，是為了玩賞、伴侶，而飼養的動物。一般是指人為了消除孤寂或娛樂，其中貓、狗、兔、鼠、鳥和魚最為常見。大多數寵物在主人那裏會受到很好的對待，也不將之作為食用。但有時也衍生虐待動物問題。由於人們對寵物的需求很大，導致市場的出現，但許多動物從野生到達市場如鳥類貿易市場之前，會導致不必要的死亡。
寵物一般是哺乳綱或鳥綱的動物，因為這些動物大腦比較發達，有的大腦能相當於3至5歲左右的幼兒的大腦，所以容易和人交流。但其實人可以把所有種類的動物變成寵物，甚至是有些大型野生生物如獅、虎、豹、熊等。或是包括魚綱、爬行綱、兩棲綱甚至昆蟲等，這一類別都是以體態和棲息地模擬作為其樂趣，不過一般寵物都是體型比較小、溫和親人的動物。寵物的內容也隨人們的認知的生態的變遷而變化，以前許多作為寵物飼養的動物，由於貿易需求而導致物種本身的瀕危，這些動物已經不再適合作為寵物。適合做寵物的物種往往是人工繁殖成熟，容易控制活動範圍，不會對野生種群造成威脅的種類