Looking at Badger asleep. We have developed such a good relationship already in what's probably around 1/3 of his lifespan, I'm thinking at the 1/2 or 2/3 mark I really want to get another cat and try to continue building and passing the accultured part on
man, that’s fucked up, what if your roomate just randomly made you live with another guy so that you could teach that dude how to be as much like you as possible -- all on the idea that when you died in a few decades, he wanted a replacement roommate?
I mean, yes, I host his presence and introduce stimuli into his life in service of fulfilling my own desires for companionship, that’s kind of the concept of pets