• gullible@kbin.social
    10·
    9 months ago

    At what point does an life form become a pet? Can a particularly mobile carnivorous plant be a pet? If you refuse to take down a spider web and shoo flies toward it, does the spider become a pet? If you release ladybugs in your apartment to cull aphids, are they pets? If you briefly tend a goat to sacrifice it to Morlak, lord of dreams, to steal everything but your landlord’s nightmares, is the goat a pet?

      • gullible@kbin.social
        5·
        9 months ago

        Well, it’s equal parts joke and legitimate question. I find social lines, like friend and acquaintance, similarly blurred. “Pet” is so vague.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    9 months ago

    My experience so far is that most places say they don’t accept them but if you ask and you have a small dog, they’ll prefer taking a chance instead of leaving the place empty… But if you’ve got a big dog and you don’t own your own place then… You made some bad choices…

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      But if you’ve got a big dog and you don’t own your own place then… You made some bad choices…

      I had a large-ish (27kg) dog when I was looking for a place to rent in 2019, after my family was forced out of our home by a flood.

      According to you, I should have made a better choice and stopped the flood somehow.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        9 months ago

        Oh my, you were an exception, how does it makes you feel? ☺️

        Did you read the part about “owning your own place”? You technically did, you just had to move temporarily due to exceptional circumstances, that’s not the same thing as buying a big dog and expecting to be able to easily find somewhere to rent.