My precious pets.

Do you have any pets?

The child pets the cat.

Fodderwing always shows me his pets.

Our pets would never turn them out.

Let's see, should we order that all pets be kept indoors?

You know, pets and bicycles and a sandwich and a glass of milk after school.

We'll send the word tonight when our pets take us for a walk in the park.

Do we get to go someday to Pets 'R' Us and say, Look, I want a dog.

Fortunately in 2006, Congress passed the Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act it spells PETS to change that.

And in fact, right now in many states, you can go out and you can buy bioluminescent pets.

There is no area of the government not the EPA or the FDA that controls genetically engineered pets.

Humans, livestock and pets are, now, 98 percent of the total world's mass of vertebrates on land and air.

We have about a 60 percent response rate and improved survival for these pets that were about to be euthanized.

Humans and muskrats and giraffes and birds and so on, are the red line goes up. That's the humans and livestock and pets portion.

10,000 years ago at the dawn of agriculture, human population, plus livestock and pets, was approximately a tenth of one per cent of the terrestrial vertebrae landmass.

And eventually, they'll have evolved to such a high peak of perfection that they will make us all their pets if, of course, they haven't already done so.

Ten thousand years ago, the humans and livestock and pets were not even one tenth of one percent and wouldn't even have been visible on such a curve.

So here was a room in which all the walls, floors, ceilings, pets, potted plants, whatever was in there, were capable, not only of display but of sensing as well.

Cruelty I knew that the 10 billion animals we raise each year for meat are raised in factory farm conditions that we, hypocritically, wouldn't even consider for our own cats, dogs and other pets.

While it's true that many who died in Katrina did not have access to transportation, others who did refused to leave as the storm approached, often because available transportation and shelters refused to allow them to take their pets.

What I call the human portion humans and their livestock and pets versus the natural portion all the other wild animals and just these are vertebrates and all the birds, etc., in the land and air, not in the water. How does it balance?

Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets' perspective, we can build their love and trust. It's a message that resonates well beyond the animal world.

Girl 1 We have in the very beginning of the whole game, always we do this we each have a piece of paper we write down our name, our age are we rich, very rich, not rich, poor, medium, wealthy, boyfriends, dogs, pets what else sisters, brothers, and all those.

Doorman buildings provide round the clock service to residents and dog walkers look after pets during the workday. In New York City, one can get help during the weekends to prepare meals for the coming week, with a culinary expert to advise you on the recipes, buy the groceries, and do part of the cooking.

You follow this curve and you see the whiter spot in the middle that's your 50 year time bubble. Humans, livestock and pets are now 97 percent of that integrated total mass on earth and all wild nature is three percent. We have won. The next generation doesn't even have to worry about this game it is over.

There's a huge there's a huge community of people in the world who are practical biologists, who are dog breeders, pigeon breeders, orchid breeders, rose breeders, people who handle biology with their hands, and who are dedicated to producing beautiful things, beautiful creatures, plants, animals, pets. These people will be empowered with biotech, and that will be an enormous positive step to acceptance of biotechnology.

So on the morning I visited, Eleanor came downstairs, poured herself a cup of coffee, sat in a reclining chair, and she sat there, kind of amiably talking to each of her children as one after the other they came downstairs, checked the list, made themselves breakfast, checked the list again, put the dishes in the dishwasher, rechecked the list, fed the pets or whatever chores they had, checked the list once more, gathered their belongings, and made their way to the bus.