He was a perfect pet.
The perfect urban pet is not the dog or the cat, but the lowly worm.
Individually, both dogs were perfect pets, though Stan was more retiring then the effervescent Ollie.
California entrepreneur Gary Dahl was joking around with friends one night in 1975 about the perfect pet.
This gave him the idea for the perfect "pet": a rock.
He said they were to be the perfect pets, and joked about it with his friends.
He got the idea of creating the perfect pet.
Each action provokes further reaction until, convinced she's found the perfect pets, Wombat moves in, excavating a burrow under her new neighbors' house.
"You are almost the perfect pet, Jason, but do not provoke me."
Since her aim was to create the perfect pet, personality was of great importance in Devie's breeding program.