pethood

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You know, I don't really hate dogs per se, or even dog owners; it's the idea of pethood that turns me off, the taming of wild things, the use of animals as surrogate children-or surrogate lovers.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
" Indeed, there was a sense in which a kiss was a thing as well as an act, and Domino's kiss, inexperienced in terms of execution but seasoned in terms of foundation, might be compared to new spring growth on a venerable tree, or (despite Switters's disrespect for pethood) a puppy with a pedigree.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
" Indeed, there was a sense in which a kiss was a thing as well as an act, and Domino's kiss, inexperienced in terms of execution but seasoned in terms of foundation, might be compared to new spring growth on a venerable tree, or (despite Switters's disrespect for pethood) a puppy with a pedigree.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
'manhood' and 'womanhood' and 'brotherhood' and all the other 'hoods' are good English, I see no reason why 'pethood' shouldn't be used in the same sense.

Flower of the Dusk Myrtle Reed 1892
He observed that the restraining influence worked against the pethood so strongly as practically to obscure it. "

Flower of the Dusk Myrtle Reed 1892