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- noun A
domestic pet , one that lives mostlyindoors .
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Examples
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It's totally impossible to have him with Sarah wherever she goes, but I think she should have had him as a "housepet," so he could be around whenever she's at home.
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13 October 2003 @ 12:44 pm an animal lover speaks in hasty generalizations according to NBC's Dateline, three out of four people surveyed prefer dogs to cats in the "housepet" department. it is my personal suspicion that Stone Phillips deliberately went down to the Westminster Dog Show in order to select his pollees, because i am cat-biased, and i would be hard-pressed to imagine another way that such statistics are possible.
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So I am legally required to spank housepet into another year!
The Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness: Not Just A Good Idea-- housepet 2010
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So I am legally required to spank housepet into another year!
The Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness: Not Just A Good Idea-- housepet 2010
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And now, a disclaimer: If you are like me at all, you're probably tired of reading horror stories that feature a Dangling Meat Coupon -- i.e., a housepet of some variety.
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My companion of late is a bomb sniffing drop out who ended up a housepet and he is there for me, a warm heartbeat at my feet, at home, at the gun range or bustling around the kitchen hoping for a leftover.
Heaven’s Garden « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Here I thought you had objected to various Bush Administration actions based on some sort of principle, and it turns out you go by vocal timbre, like some sort of housepet.
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Your good house manners, brought about by thousands of years of genetic seletion, make you housepet and weasel about town.
New Fic: Disheveled, Part 2, New Who S2, GitF keswindhover 2006
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They seem to have a different attitude about the value of a housepet.
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They seem to have a different attitude about the value of a housepet.
Archive 2008-03-01 Sage 2008
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