Pick a new pet to take home?
If you mean a domestic or tamed animal or bird kept for companionship or pleasure and treated with affection, — no thank you I would not want to transplant another living creature into an envoirnment that is neither healthy or natural for it just to invite more work myself with cleaning and feeding or putting up with wierd odours. It puts me in a PET!
This word of Scottish Gaelic origin peata, to me is restricted to stroke or caress gently,showing or expressing affection or particularly cherished or indulged indiviual.
