History Main / HumanPet

* An arc for the comic adaptation of ''The Twilight Zone'' had a large collection of humans, all seemingly kept prisoner on an alien spaceship. Sometimes they get abducted by a column of light, and return traumatized. One man, a former astronaut is desperate to escape and return to Earth, who gets rejected by the rest for rocking the boat. When he finally manages to get out, he learns that there is no Earth to go back to, and that the humans weren't abducted but saved from its destruction. Demanding an explanation of what they're supposed to be if not prisoners, he's given an answer the form of a drawing depicting a kitten.

* An arc for the comic adaptation of ''The Twilight Zone'' had a group of abducted humans, all kept in a featureless enclosure by a group of mysterious aliens. Occasionally, someone would be targeted and removed for a while, to be returned effectively lobotomized into a docile state. After working up a mob, one of the humans shouts at the ceiling what the abductees are supposed to be to their alien captors. He breaks down when he sees their response in the form of picture of a human playing with a dog.

* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': In the original manga, Yugi's snobby classmate Kujirada had a "hidden character" [[VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} virtual pet]] that would live two months (as opposed to normal ones, that lived twenty-one days). Unfortunately for him, it was harder to take care of, constantly waking him up in the middle of the night and demanding to be fed. Eventually, the aggressive virtual pet [[AIIsACrapshoot developed a malignant intelligence]] and the ability to control Kujirada, regarding him as ''its'' pet. It also directed him to link it to other kids' devices so [[HunterOfHisOwnKind it could devour other virtual pets.]] The evil virtual pet was defeated when it tried to prey on Yugi's pet, which, due to exchanging data with Jonouchi's pet, was [[PintSizedPowerhouse far stronger than it looked.]] Though a little upset that his prized monster was gone, Kujirada was glad he could finally get some sleep.

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': A human pet known as kitty - with the first letter specifically lowercased - is key to human efforts to counteract the invasion from Hell. They don't go anywhere without their boyfriend/Owner and wear a collar and leash, which the military has to account for when including them in study and operations. An example of an intense UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} lifestyle.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Back when [[spoiler:Pink Diamond]] was [[PlanetLooters colonizing]] Earth, she abducted many humans and placed them in a large space station simply called "The Zoo" where five thousand years later their ManChild descendents live in a [[GildedCage closely regulated but peaceful and innocent]] existence. The "zoomans" are all obliviously happy but have no concept of pain or sadness and just being politely rejected [[WhatIsThisFeeling causes them to emotionally collapse.]] [[spoiler:It is later subverted in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", when Pearl explains that the Zoo was actually commissioned by the other Diamonds, misunderstanding Pink's desire to preserve Earth's natural wildlife.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Back when [[spoiler:Pink Diamond]] was [[PlanetLooters colonizing]] Earth, she abducted many humans and placed them in a large space station simply called "The Zoo" where five thousand years later their ManChild descendents live in a [[GildedCage closely regulated but peaceful and innocent]] existence. The "zoomans" are all obliviously happy but have no concept of pain or sadness and just being politely rejected [[WhatIsThisFeeling causes them to emotionally collapse.]] [[spoiler:It is later subverted in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", when Pearl explains that the Zoo was actually commissioned by the other Diamonds, misunderstanding Pink's desire to preserve Earth's natural wildlife. When Steven's group end up talking to the other Diamonds themselves, Blue Diamond refers to Connie as Steven's "pet", making him ''very'' uncomfortable.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Back when [[spoiler:Pink Diamond]] was [[PlanetLooters colonizing]] Earth, she abducted many humans and placed them in a large space station simply called "The Zoo" where five thousand years later their ManChild descendents live in a [[GildedCage closely regulated but peaceful and innocent]] existence. The "zoomans" are all obliviously happy but have no concept of pain or sadness and just being politely rejected [[WhatIsThisFeeling causes them to emotionally collapse.]] [[spoiler:It is later subverted in "Adventures in Light Distortion", when Pearl explains that the Zoo was actually commissioned by the other Diamonds, misunderstanding Pink's desire to preserve Earth's natural wildlife.]]

Overlaps with SapientPet and ThisIsMyHuman. May overlap with BondCreature or PeopleZoo.

* Creator/ImageComics: In ''ComicBook/TheHumans'', a apes reign as the dominate species and humans (or "skins", due to their hairlessness) are animals used as manual labor, lab rats, pets, etc. However, that does little to prevent apes from having sexual relations with humans. Karns, a chimpanzee, keeps a woman as his pet and sexual plaything, naming her Florence. He owned another by the name of Georgene, but made her into a pair of boots.

** In "T: The Terrestrial," Fry gets stranded on Omicron Persei 8 and is taken in by Lrrr's son Jrrr in a HumansThroughAlienEyes takeoff on ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. When Bender heads back to retrieve him, he finds him being treated by an Omicronian vet.

** In "T: The Terrestrial," Fry gets stranded on Omicron Persei 8 and is taken in by Lrrr's son Jrrr in a HumansThroughAlienEyes takeoff on ''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial''. When Bender heads back to retrieve him, he finds him being treated by an Omicronian vet.

** In "T: The Terrestrial," Fry gets stranded on Omicron Persei 8 and is taken in by Lrrr's son Jrrr in a HumansThroughAlienEyes takeoff on ''[[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial]]''. When Bender heads back to retrieve him, he finds him being treated by an Omicronian vet.

** In "T: The Terrestrial," Fry gets stranded on Omicron Persei 8 and is taken in by Lrrr's son Jrrr in a HumansThroughAlienEyes takeoff on ''[[Film/{{ET}} E.T.]]'' By the time Bender heads back to retrieve him, he's gotten sick and been taken to an Omicronian vet.

** In "T: The Terrestrial," Fry gets stranded on Omicron Persei 8 and is taken in by Lrrr's son Jrrr in a HumansThroughAlienEyes takeoff on the movie ''[[Film/{{ET}} E.T.]]''.

* In the original ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, Yugi's snobby classmate Kujirada had a "hidden character" [[VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} virtual pet]] that would live two months (as opposed to normal ones, that lived twenty-one days). Unfortunately for him, it was harder to take care of, constantly waking him up in the middle of the night and demanding to be fed. Eventually, the aggressive virtual pet [[AIIsACrapshoot developed a malignant intelligence]] and the ability to control Kujirada, regarding him as ''its'' pet. It also directed him to link it to other kids' devices so [[HunterOfHisOwnKind it could devour other virtual pets.]] The evil virtual pet was defeated when it tried to prey on Yugi's pet, which, due to exchanging data with Jonouchi's pet, was [[PintSizedPowerhouse far stronger than it looked.]] Though a little upset that his prized monster was gone, Kujirada was glad he could finally get some sleep.
* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': Riza Randog is a double agent for the a race of humans that can turn into dragons seeks the location of their progenitor, Aura whom was captured by the so-called god Embryo. Riza infiltrated the World of Mana where Embryo used Aura to create a utopia world where magic was possible through Mana; however, those that were unable use it were persecuted and shunned. Embryo later captured Riza and after torturing her gave her to his follower, Sylvia Ikaruga Misurugi who abused her, treating her like an animal: depriving her of clothes, muzzling and shackling her, and even whipping her for failure.
* ''The Beast and His Pet High School Girl'' takes place in a world where beastmen are the dominant population and humans are considered high maintenance exotic pets: the female lead of the story was kidnapped from the human world and sold as a pet to a wolf man named Zinovy.
%%* ''Human Ranch'', a bus of students are kidnapped by an elven woman to an alternate world.

* Poor Tigra was once caught by Kraven the Hunter and subjected to a "Mnemonic scrambler" (more or less a SlaveCollar) that reduced her intelligence to that of a common tiger; then he kept her like some obedient RightHandCat until ComicBook/SpiderMan showed up and was able to remove it. (Some would argue that Tigra was actually lucky; years later, Kraven's madness would be such that he might have turned her into a rug.)
* In ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass'', the [[spoiler: Evil]] Autobot Tailgate finds humans cute and takes Butch Witwicky as a pet, encouraging the other Autobots to do the same.

* ''The Humans'', a world created by Image Comics, where apes reign as the dominate species and where humans or 'skins' are animals used as manual labor, lab rats, pets, etc. They are derogatorily referred as skins due to their hairlessness. However that does little to prevent them from having sexual relations with one. Karns a chimpanzee keeps a woman as his pet and sexual plaything, naming her Florence. He owned another by the name of Georgene, but he made her into a pair of boots.

* In the ''Series/Alice2009'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5848160/1/Have_Another_Sip Have Another Sip]]'', Jack and the Duchess briefly discuss the possibility of turning Alice into their pet, though it doesn't actually happen.

* Implied in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/827529/chapters/1571549 Lab Specimen]]'' after Light is captured by L Ryuk decides to keep a cockroach as a pet and names it [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack "Light II" much to its namesake's annoyance]], especially when he realizes that Ryuk thinks of him in much the same way.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/616971/chapters/1112940 To Feel Alive]]'' Ryuk finds Light to be adorable and considers him to be his favorite pet.
* From ''Foundling'', we have this with [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Reimu]] (being called "Setugo") when she was taken in by Yakumos, Ren of whom treating her as Chen put it, " like an old bitch would do a lapdog", if he isn't ignoring her (i.e pretending she isn't there). Naturally, when Suika sees her, she describes her as the Yakumos' new pet, although she describes her being unconventional for one.
* Several fanfics have [[Manga/BlackButler Ciel]] being either turned into a (usually cat) demon or being a neko (human with cat' ears and tail) and is "adopted" by Sebastian as his pet.
* There's a ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7395348/1/Collared fanfic]] out there that deconstructs the episode mentioned below as being horribly psychologically damaging to Beast Boy, in part because of his previous experience in the timeline as a circus act for an extremely cruel ringmaster. [[BigBrotherInstinct Robin is FURIOUS and makes sure the circus is exposed and shut down.]]

* ''Animation/FantasticPlanet'' is set on the homeworld of giant, blue humanoid aliens called Draags who keep Oms (humans) as pets, though they also often see them as vermin. The protagonist, Terr, grows up as the pet of a young (for her species) female Draag named Tiwa.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Jabba the Hutt enslaves women of different species, and keeps them chained and [[GoGoEnslavement dressed in revealing clothes]] next to his throne. The keeping of "sentient" beings as pets is a popular status symbol in Hutt culture (and is also practiced by some Sith of other species).

* In the first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, Megatron says he'd let Sam live as his pet if he gave him the Allspark.
* The low budget film ''The Pet'', about a poor American girl who agrees to "replace" an European aristocrat's recently deceased dog.

* Lampshaded by a vampire familiar in ''Film/BladeII''. "I'd rather be a pet than food!"
* In ''Film/{{Pet}}'', Seth is a StalkerWithACrush to Holly, and eventually kidnaps her and locks her in a cage, treating her like a dog.

* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', as Dr. Serizawa is testifying in congress about his refusal to destroy Godzilla on the grounds that humans and [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] can coexist, one senator asks if they should turn Godzilla into a pet. Serizawa retorts that if anything, humanity should accept that they are nothing more than Godzilla's pets.

* ''Literature/TheWildBoy'' has an overlap of this and BondCreatures. Aliens called the Lindauzi keep and breed humans, calling them dogs, and give their young a human pet to bond with on their upright day, their first time walking erect.
* The ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' novel has the (naked) main character Ulysse taken for a walk by Zira, on a leash... not to attract attention. Ulysse, as a human from Earth, is horribly embarrassed, but Zira tells him that for the apes of planet Soror, it's seeing a dressed and non-leashed human that would look uncanny.
* In ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'', Lyra pretends at one moment that she's a dæmon (a {{Main/Familiar}} of sorts - long story) that belongs to the king of bears, Iorek Byrnison. She does it to convince another bear, Iofur, that she wants to be his.
* Mentioned in Creator/JackHandey's ''Deep Thoughts'':
-->"I wish outer-space guys would conquer Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little basket-beds with my name on it."
* In the second section of ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', Gulliver finds himself in a place where he's 1/12th the size of everybody else, and he's kept as a pet first by a farming family and later by the King and Queen. Eventually, he finds out that they're looking for a female his size, hoping to ''breed'' human pets; he manages to get away (well, accidentally, after a giant bird grabs his cage) before that happens. In the fourth section he's on the island of Houyhnhnms, who are intelligent horses who keep a population of feral humans as beasts of burden, but choose to make Gulliver a housepet due to his relative intelligence.
* The ''Bear Kingdom'' young adult novels feature a world where bears keep humans as pets and work animals.
* In the children's book ''Mush: A Dog From Space'', it's revealed that Mush has a human pet girl.
* A few dragons in the ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' series keep humans as pets (and some editions of the fifth book even come with a letter on the proper care of human pets). Considering that Pyrrhia is a DeathWorld to humans, it's not a terrible situation for the humans to be in. Plus, the dragons who spend time with them come to think of humans as completely adorable.
** In ''Moon Rising'', the only reason dragons don't ''eat'' the scavenger Bandit is because he's someone's pet.
-->'''The protagonist:''' He'd be safer in Winter's cage than anywhere else in the academy.
* There's a chapter book featuring a protagonist who finds himself in this situation on a planet of dogs (who call Earth "Ick" and the humans "Ickys"), though the pup who ultimately becomes his caretaker is quite kind. The pair unintentionally reveal to the company that captured and freeze-dried the protagonist and his ball team (the story kicks off when the protagonist comes to after being freeze-dried and asks what's going on) that humans can talk which would make them novelties. The novelty wears off after it's revealed that the freeze-drying wears off a little at a time every time water is drunk, turning the humans into creatures that are AwesomeButImpractical, which prompts the company to return the humans to Earth. The protagonist ends up being more understanding and affectionate towards his own pet dog.
* The humanimals in ''Literature/TheForsakenChildren'' are descended from humans that were brought to the magus world and going feral, only to be domesticated by the fae. They're pretty harmless, only half as tall as normal humans, but humans and any creature that stems from humans usually find them [[UncannyValley unnerving]].
* Lampshaded in ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. The artilleryman speculates that after being on Earth for a while, the Martians might start raising humans as pets instead of human bloodbanks, and get all emotional over one who dies on them.

** Some humans were changed by the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qu]] into a slow breeding, mindless ape called Hedons, treated as pampered pets, and given a paradise world to live in.
** The sessile Temptors were used as garden decorations by the Qu.

** The Subjects of the Gravital were modified into many different forms for their civilization. Like [[MadArtist works of Art]], backup dancers, and [[HumanSacrifice Blood Sacrifices]].
* A particularly horrifying example in ''Literature/WhatTheHellDidIJustRead'' happens when one of the [[ItMakesSenseInContext hatching Fuckroaches gets pushed into an alternate dimension by Agent Pussnado and transforms the human inhabitants into eight-foot bug monsters who keep stunted, toothless, naked humans that crawl on all fours as pets.]]
* Humans in the ''Literature/TitanEmpire'' series -- at least the ones descended from those taken from ancient Earth -- are owned as pets by the [[OurGiantsAreBigger Titans]], a race of giant humanoids. The series documents the humans' attempts to gain equality, especially after some modern humans end up in the Empire, and are none-too-happy about being pets.
* ''The Pets'' trilogy by Darla Phelps is all about this trope. Humans are abducted from Earth and sold as pets to giants who are incapable of viewing humans as equals. Its a trilogy series, the first book from the view of one of the giants who buys a woman and names her Pani to cope with the deaths of his wife and daughter. The second book deals with Pani or Judy Baker and her descent into an animal at the hands of her owner. The third book has two points of view: Bacch's nephew who is a biologist who begins to learn that his people have in reality been enslaving another species for their own gain. And Bebe a young woman who was born as a pet and falls in love with her new master.
* ''Breeding Humans'' by Harold King, a short story where a race of avians breed a race of humanoids for meat, pets, ect. Eventually one rebelled and eventually became leader of a race that would call themselves elves.
* ''The Silk and the Song'' by Charles Louis Fontenay, a scifi novella that describes a world where generations ago humans attempted to colonize a planet, only to be captured by the native Hussirs. The colonists were stripped of their clothes and technology and used as beasts of labour and cattle by the aliens.
* This is featured prominently in the novel [[https://www.amazon.com/Nowhere-C-Wilson-ebook/dp/B010WC51UY To Nowhere]] by C.E. Wilson. A portal hidden in an abandoned house leads to a world of giants. Here, normal-sized humans- called "Insignificants" by the giants- are viewed as cute pets and have no rights. There is actually a bustling pet trade, to the point where there are normal humans called "Targeters" whose job it is to lure people to the portal so they can be kidnapped and turned into pets.

* ''Fables for Robots'' by Creator/StanislawLem: In ''How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface'' king Boludar of a robotic kingdom acquiries a live "[[HumansByAnyOtherName Homos Antropos]]" or "paleface" for his collection of curiosities. This new specimen not only tricks the king into letting him out and providing him with a spaceship, but also steals the winding key for the brain of the king's daughter. Considering [[TheDreaded how humans are treated]] in the rest of the ''Fables'', it could have ended much worse for the kingdom.

* The A-plot of the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "Unleashed" (Season 11, Episode 19) focused on the bondage version of this, with the victim found dead in a cat costume at a human pet house.
* The ''Series/{{Are you Afraid of the Dark}}'' episode "...The Zombie Dice" features a malevolent game shop owner who shrinks people down to just a few inches tall and ships them out to exotic places as pets if they lose his challenge.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' featured a pony play episode.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]": A couple wakes up in an abandoned town. At the end of the episode it's revealed that they've been kidnapped by an alien giant to be pets for the giant's daughter.
* Inverted in season 5 of ''Series/TrueBlood''. Emma Garza is abducted in her werewolf form to be Steve Newlin's new pet dog. When she returns to human form, Steve gets angry and orders her to remain in her werewolf form indefinitely.
* In one episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', [[TalkingAnimal Salem]] pesters the aunts over his desire to own a pet, which they refuse to allow. Eventually, he goes behind their back and buys a "dogman", a talking, dressed man that stands on two feet, but otherwise behaves like a dog. After Salem fails to be a good owner, he gives his pet to a family of talking dogs.
* Primitive cavemen humans are kept as pet and zoo animals by the Dinosaurs in ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Doctor's companions have been labeled as this by Idris (who tells off the Doctor for "bringing home strays") and Missy (though "snacks" was an alternate possibility).

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* Invoked as a possibility for humanity under Martian rule in Orson Welles' ''[[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds War of the Worlds]]'' radio play.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', Lightning and Hope come to the revelation that the fal'Cie that run Cocoon treat humans like pets - providing them with safety, food, water, and light in exchange for their freedoms. [[spoiler:In reality, it's more like "sacrificial lambs" than "housepets".]]
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''; the pet store in Dalaran includes a Gnome Diver in an aquarium tank. (Not for sale, unfortunately.)

* Among the various HumanSubspecies in ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' are [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f43431bcb41 "pet humans"]] who are usually genetically engineered for lower intelligence and neoteny. They're most popular among [[BeastMan Splices]] and [[UpliftedAnimal Provolves]], seeing as their ancestors were frequently kept as pets or [[ServantRace worse]]. Their ownership is almost universally outlawed in human-dominated areas.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1897 SCP-1897]], which detail aliens coming to abduct people, so they could lobotomize, castrate, and train them as pets.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has an episode in which Beast Boy is kept as a pet. This is a kind of weird example because Beast Boy is a shapeshifter, so he can actually become an animal pet if he wants. The basic premise still fits, though. At the end, the villain agrees to switch roles and become the pet of his original, sentient dog.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Nergal Jr. briefly keeps the school bully, Sperg, as a pet in the underworld. Sperg at first doesn't like it, but then after tasting an octopus arm Jr. threw at him, he remarks, "It's better than what my mom makes!"
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the "Road To the Multiverse" episode they land on a world where dogs keep humans as pets rather than vice-versa. There are dog versions of Peter, Lois, etc., and a human version of Brian.

* Mr. Peabody of the ''Peabody's Improbable History'' segments of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' explains his relationship with Sherman as the inverse of the normal relationship between a boy and his pet dog, although in practice he treats him more like an adopted son than a pet. (He's even more paternal in the movie version.)
* Used as a gags in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''.
** Occasionally you see a BeastMan with a naked human on a leash, such as Dave Spiegel and his owner Fluffers.
** Bender also drops some pretty heavy hints that, while he ''does'' genuinely love and care about Fry, this is how he sees their relationship.
-->'''Fry:''' ''(After Bender suggests they share an apartment)'' You're sure I won't be imposing?\\
'''Bender:''' Nah, I always wanted a pet.

* Decepticon Breakdown from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' assumes that Autobots, including his arch enemy Bulkhead, are keeping humans as pets. Megatron uses the term "human pets" in the episode "Persuasion".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Lawnmower Dog", Rick builds a device to make their dog Snuffles more intelligent, which leads to the dog improving the device and uplifting all dogs. [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters They take over the world and keep humans as pets]], specifically Snuffles (who now calls himself Snowball) keeps Morty as his pet because he always treated the dog well, while other humans are enslaved.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In the dimension of Pylea the natives keep humans as pets...well, not so much "pets" as "beasts of burden".

* From ''Foundling'', we have this with Reimu (being called "Setugo") when she was taken in by Yakumos, Ren of whom treating her as Chen put it, " like an old bitch would do a lapdog", if he isn't ignoring her (i.e pretending she isn't there). Naturally, when Suika sees her, she describes her as the Yakumos' new pet, although she describes her being unconventional for one.
* Several fanfics have Ciel being either turned into a (usually cat) demon or being a neko (human with cat' ears and tail) and is "adopted" by Sebastian as his pet.

* In ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Mosters]]'', as Dr. Serizawa is testifying in congress about his refusal to destroy Godzilla on the grounds that humans and [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] can coexist, one senator asks if they should turn Godzilla into a pet. Serizawa retorts that if anything, humanity should accept that they are nothing more than Godzilla's pets.

* ''Human Ranch'', a bus of students are kidnapped by an elven woman to an alternate world.

* A ''Series/{{CSI}}'' ep focused on the bondage version of this, with the victim found dead in a cat costume at a human pet house.