Why Do People Have Pets?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG 68% of American families have a pet friend living with them. But why did humans start domesticating animals as pets and not livestock? Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Edited By: Mike Petrow Fact Check: Sarah Edwards Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/mans_first_friend.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/201307/are-pigs-smart-dogs-and-does-it-really-matter https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/domestication/ https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/horse/domesticating-horses/domestication-timeline/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-when-did-people-start-keeping-pets-180960616/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/domesticated-cats-dna-genetics-pets-science/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120327124243.htm http://time.com/4459684/national-dog-day-history-domestic-dogs-wolves/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/20170232?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/04/dna-evidence-suggests-humans-may-have-domesticated-dogs-twice/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/72188/how-were-cats-domesticated https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/domestication/ http

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