Who are the best pets in literature?
>inb4 Lovecraft's cat

>>24545402 (OP)
Scabbers

Durtal's cat in Là-bas
Flavio in Hadrian the Seventh

tobermory

>>24545402 (OP)
“Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,” Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, “when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you’d have deserved it, you little mischievous darling! What have you got to say for yourself? Now don’t interrupt me!” she went on, holding up one finger. “I’m going to tell you all your faults. Number one: you squeaked twice while Dinah was washing your face this morning. Now you can’t deny it, Kitty: I heard you! What’s that you say?” (pretending that the kitten was speaking.) “Her paw went into your eye? Well, that’s your fault, for keeping your eyes open — if you’d shut them tight up, it wouldn’t have happened. Now don’t make any more excuses, but listen! Number two: you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her! What, you were thirsty, were you? How do you know she wasn’t thirsty too? Now for number three: you unwound every bit of the worsted while I wasn’t looking!

That’s three faults, Kitty, and you’ve not been punished for any of them yet. You know I’m saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week — Suppose they had saved up all *my* punishments!” she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten. “What would they do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came. Or — let me see — suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldn’t mind *that* much! I’d far rather go without them than eat them!”

— Lewis Carroll, ‘Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There’

>>24545865
Poor kitty :(
Off with her head!

>>24545890
She does get shaken a bit. But that's just to turn her back into a kitten after being the Red Queen.

>>24545402 (OP)
the cat from "the rats inbthe walls" by h.p. lovecraft.

Bébert

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>>24545402 (OP)
More like collective pets/comrades, the dogs in Malazan
https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Bent
https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Roach

Arcturus and Pollux (from) the Doomb dogs are the best pets in literature, while the dogs which accompanied the Akhaians are the bravest. Dogs should be considered as individuals whose characters must be judged on the basis of the qualities they express in their acts, making them 'best'. The only thing that could be 'better' would be if there was a dog's voice talking to you, and telling you this and you got to respond in the way I did.
>"I'm just a dog."
(me) "I know it." (dog)
>"This is what it's like."
(me) "This is what it's like." (dog)
>"I'm just a dog."
(me) "I know it." (dog)
>"But THIS is what it's like."
(me) "But this is what it's like." (dog)
>[bark, bark]

A dog's perspective on his own greatness is a matter of POV. We don't see things from our own point of view, and neither should dogs (for example, we don't look at ourselves in mirrors, or hear our own voice on recordings.) Dogs have different ideas of what's good and what's bad. They may have a completely different set of values than what you consider moral, for example: even though dogs may believe that a human's death is a bad thing, they may believe in parallel that eating humans is a good, virtuous thing (and perhaps they may also believe that a human 'should' be eaten; and that would not be great)

Dogs don't believe in religion or anything outside of commands. Dogs can't believe in other things than food and water initially. They don't care. Cats on the other hand obviously care about religion, and perhaps also about politics, in which case I assume the cat that's not a cat's cat is a cat that's a cat's cat. That's why you need two or more. No dog every thrives alone.

>>24545402 (OP)
Not a singular animal but Hemingway’s cats and their polydactyly became a whole lineage. Any cat with extra toes can be called a Hemingway cat though it’s not technically correct.

Jack London’s dog spawned some early pet centric books.

>>24545402 (OP)

The Call of the Wild, White Fang

Lebensansichten des Katers Murr