A pet is an animal kept primarily for a person’s company or entertainment.
Pets are generally thought of as the joy they bring to their owners, but that joy seems to be interconnected, especially with horses, dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals. Pet ownership is therefore a symbiotic relationship in which both animals and humans benefit. Pet ownership has been practiced from prehistoric times to the present day, and pets are found in almost every culture and society, so pet ownership clearly fulfills a deep and universal human need.
The history of domestication is intertwined with the process of domestication of animals, and the first domesticated species, the dog, may also have been the first domesticated animal. Perhaps the first step towards domestication was taken largely through the widespread human practice of making pets from young wild animals that were captured. A partnership was established. Dogs were faster, had stronger jaws, and were good at chasing prey. Therefore, it can be of great use in hunting and guarding missions. On the other hand, people promised dogs constant food and warmth from fire. There is indirect evidence that dogs may have been domesticated and kept as pets since the Paleolithic period, as evidenced by paintings and sculptures archaeologists have found in ancient campsites and tombs. In Mesopotamia, dogs very similar to today’s mastiffs were seen hunting lions. Domestic animals were often depicted in scenes of domestic life in ancient Egypt. Greyhounds and Salukis His type of hound accompanies his master on the hunt, and a lap dog often sits under his owner’s chair.
