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Let’s look after our pets.
They’re as friendly as a best friend gets.
And let’s look after our domesticated livestock, too.
They’re thinking, breathing, needy, feeling sentient creatures
Just like me and you.

When we first started hanging with the wolves in the wild
They were not a good present to be given to a child
But we still thought these frequent fireside visitors
Ought to be for life, not just for Christmas.
It suited us, and it suited them,
At least for a while, ‘til we chose to condemn
Them to many generations of strict servitude
In return for shelter and the odd scrap of food.
So we set about selecting mates
For individuals with attractive traits
And / after many generations playing this game,
We found ourselves living with a wolf that was tame.
And we did the same with other species / again and again.

Let’s look after our pets.
They’re as friendly as a best friend gets.
And let’s look after our domesticated livestock, too.
They’re thinking, breathing, needy, feeling sentient creatures
Just like me and you.

The following verse lists almost all the
Animals we’ve chosen to tame in the cage,
And it does so in chronological order
According to a Wikipedia page

The first pet that I ever got was a dog.
Then three thousand years later, a goat, then a hog.
Then a sheep and a cow, then I ended up pickin’
Up a pet zebu and a cat and a chicken,
Then I got myself a guinea pig and a donkey
Then a duck, water buffalo, and a honeybee,
Dromedary, horse, silk moth, pigeon, goose,
Then I had a yak, camel and a llama running loose,
Then I got myself a ferret, and a dove and a turkey,
Goldfish, rabbit, then a koi and a canary,
Finch, mouse, fighting fish, rat and a mink
And most recently I got a pet fox and a skunk.

Let’s look after our pets.
Let’s not just leave it to the vets.
We share their planet so let’s kick the habit of supremacy.
They’re thinking, breathing, needy, feeling sentient creatures
Just like you and me.

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from Ensonglopedia of the Human, released July 18, 2021

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