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Not having cats is an option that is not seriously considered.

Dogs are even worse. Make them shit in your own backyard please.

If you are a city dweller please do not keep “pets”, it’s bloody ridiculous, thank you.

We've been keeping pets as a species for considerably longer than we've had cities. It's basically an ingrained part of how we react to animals now.

Beyond that, longer than we've had the written word.

Domestication of animals might be the single greatest achievement of humans.

Aren't cities older than writing?

In dwarf fortress you can have dragons as pets. Never got there, tho I think I will train dogs in my current fortress.

Sadly not known to breathe fire, but on the plus side, less likely to burn your house down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogona

You seem to think humans keep cats as pets, which indicates you've never lived with a cat before.

Cats have standards that prevent that person from getting hired as a servant.

Keeping an animal that defecates indoors and allowing it contact with food prep area is obscene.

Obscene is the right word because it's quite manageable in health terms, it just feels bad to you.

I defecate indoors. Should I not be allowed bear food prep areas?

I am certain you don't step in the toilet bowl and walk on your countertops after.

Children?

Children was their hands, diapers get changed, and rarely get on countertops.