pets

Breeding animals as pets is gently problematic when there are so many unwanted animals that would make very good pets.

Your friends might be nice people who mean well and love their pets, but they are dangerously uneducated in this matter.

If pets aren't allowed, then don't allow pets.

In either case the right is null and void if the pets grossly misbehave (damage to the apartment or unacceptable noise levels that disturb the neighbours).

Noondip's now deleted comment was as follows: Another excellent reason to go vegan, both for yourself and your pets.

Well, presumably any civilization advanced enough to communicate with us wouldn't be interested in being our pets.

Your slippery slope is ludicrous, like when homophobes insist gay marriage will lead to people being allowed to marry their pets.

TAG is a revolutionary chemical-free way to protect your pets from fleas and ticks I don't think so.

Over the short term the price of gold, silver, subprime real estate, dutch tulip bulbs, pets.com stock etc.

In Germany cats are considered small pets and it is illegal for a landlord to prohibit keeping small pets in an apartment (within reason -- there is case law to help out with edge cases).

Also, I think they would be more afraid of lawsuits by people whose pets were poisoned than for false advertising.

A meat eater who benefits from experimentation on species that are very closely related to him, namely chimps, wonders about the ethics of breeding pets.

When you have small kids or pets, you often have to "spray and pray" to get a sharp shot.

They already sell those as pets, as you can see by googling "Russian pet foxes".

And then there's pets, cat owners can't avoid posting cat pix, although "in the olden days" a quiet although banned pet might have been tolerated under a "no problem for me, no problem for you" doctrine but if half your posts are cat pix its kind of hard to consider that "keeping quiet".

Don't get me wrong there currently very popular and profitable so they don't need to worry about a Pets.com style crash.

Pets.com and Webvan were pretty much failures from inception, but sites like Pinterest and Airbnb keep getting more successful and more valuable.

I think there is more to this than a shoddy business model imitating Pets.com.