"Pet" is a word in ENGLISH
To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was
petted and spoiled.
To be a pet.
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a
fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet
lamb; a pet theory.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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Pigs don't look very smart to me. Sure, they are. You ever see a sow try to make a silk purse out of a farmer's ear?
A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
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