PET  relates to special 
FRIENDLY feelings and to 
CARESS and 
CHERISH and even 
LOVE. 
The idea in "pet" also conveys ideas of
COMPANION or ESCORT. In general,
PETS tend to be small or 
PETIT, a term from French related to 
PETTY but that conveys different vibrations.
Some pets may be used and abused by 
BESTIAL treatments or by becoming a 
FACADE or MASCOT to hide or 
MASK MERCENARY motives.
Regarding those who may be isolated to a 
HERMETIC life as some 
HERMAPHRODITES may live, a reminder from
HERMES who had a fat dog for a pet may 
STIMULATE their interest in the many 
MERCURIAL ways to invigorate the 
SOUL or 
PSYCHOLOGY, among the ways is 
lovingly caring for a pet. 
In Ukrainian and Spanish, 
ideas in pet flow toward 
DOG and PERSONALITY perhaps because 
with their wagging 
TALES
FIDELITY and 
FIDUCIARY behavior, canine animals 
STIMULATE the best elements of the
GENIUS or 
SOUL of their 
PATRONS when they are treated 
AMICABLY and not as slaves. 
Notably, patron in modern English became 
MASTER, which may reflect a tendency to 
view pets as objects and property. In any 
case, those who can not have pets, may 
resort to pet projects as substitute. 

A nation with too many pets, some say, 
is a nation of lonely people. Others say 
that one measure of a civilization is 
the care it shows toward human and non-human
animals. Note that the furor over vivisection 
(cutting "in vivo") practices by medical 
investigators was one of the early 
stimuli for the birth of "Bio-Ethics".