History Main / HumanPet

* A subset of the BDSM lifestyle. Pony play is a subset of this subset, where the submissives act like horses.

* A fan was once quoted as saying she'd like to keep Creator/MasiOka as a pet.[[note]]It's unknown if the fan in question was meaning in the BDSM sense of the term, or if she literally saw him as puppy-like and just suffered from CutenessProximity[[/note]] When a reporter asked him about it, Masi decided that it wouldn't be so bad to be someone's cuddly pet as long as she feeds him well.

* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5463870/1/Property-Of Property Of]]" is an AU of the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' in which a group of Decepticons discovered Earth in secret and began to sell humans as pets back on Cybertron, hiding their sentience from the rest of the population. As the fic unfolds, Sam and Mikaela are purchased by Bumblebee, Ironhide takes custody of Annabelle Lennox after she's rescued from a neglectful owner, and Sam's friend Miles is purchased by Prowl. This dynamic is shifted later on when these Autobots realise that their "pets" are sentient, such as Bumblebee recalling how Sam and Mikaela were able to activate his radio when he was injured or Ironhide observing Annabelle trying to imitate Cybertronian.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Breakdown the Decepticon assumes that Autobots, including his archenemy Bulkhead, are keeping humans as pets. Megatron uses the term "human pets" in "[[Recap/TransformersPrimeS3E11Persuasion Persuasion]]".

* In one issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'', Tigra is caught by Kraven the Hunter and subjected to a "mnemonic scrambler" (more or less a SlaveCollar) that reduces her intelligence to that of a common tiger. He then keeps her like some obedient RightHandCat until ComicBook/SpiderMan shows up and is 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.

Overlaps with SapientPet and ThisIsMyHuman. May overlap with BondCreature or PeopleZoo. Especially common when humans are a FormerlySapientSpecies. For a less literal example, see TreatedWorseThanThePet.

* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': "...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/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': in chapter(season)1 ep:11 “the house in the woods” woodman gambles away Hilda to a tree giant so she can help get his stuff that he “lost”(gambled away) the tree giant puts her in the tree giant’s treasure hoard, he sets her down and asks how often humans get feed without dying (not traditionally “human pet” but she is housed with food and water like a pet) note: that I haven’t read the graphic novels so I have no idea if this scene is in the book

* ''WesternAnimation/Hilda'': in chapter(season)1 ep:11 “the house in the woods” woodman gambles away Hilda to a tree giant so she can help get his stuff that he “lost”(gambled away) the tree giant puts her in the tree giant’s treasure hoard, he sets her down and asks how often humans get feed without dying (not traditionally “human pet” but she is housed with food and water like a pet) note: that I haven’t read the graphic novels so I have no idea if this scene is in the book

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'':

* ''VidoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': An event from an Enigmatic Observers variety of fallen empire can have them ask to take one of your pops (potentially representing billions of people) into a preserve where they will be treated extremely well and by all accounts perfectly taken care of, and the species will be saved from a doom the observers believe is coming. Doing so will anger your remaining pops, but denying the empire, most likely way outside of your league in terms of military power, will cost you some opinion from them.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': In the first movie, Megatron says he'd let Sam live as his pet if he gave him the Allspark.

So the aliens have taken over the world. Or maybe they've captured us and taken us back to their home planet. Either way, they decide we're cute and cuddly and they're going to take us home and keep us. This can also apply with earthbound supernatural races like vampires or demons as well. The main component of the trope is that it's a work where humans are the pets of another species. For a less literal example, see TreatedWorseThanThePet.

Overlaps with SapientPet and ThisIsMyHuman. May overlap with BondCreature or PeopleZoo. Especially common when humans are a FormerlySapientSpecies.

So the aliens have taken over the world. Or maybe they've captured us and taken us back to their home planet. Either way, they decide we're cute and cuddly and they're going to take us home and keep us. This can also apply with earthbound supernatural races like vampires or demons as well. The main component of the trope is that it's a work where humans are the pets of another species.

* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': Riza Randog is a double agent for a race of humans that can turn into dragons. He seeks the location of their progenitor, Aura, who was captured by the so-called god Embryo. Riza infiltrates the World of Mana, where Embryo uses Aura to create a utopia world where magic is possible through Mana; however, those who are unable use it are persecuted and shunned. Embryo later captures Riza, tortures her, and gives her to his follower Sylvia Ikaruga Misurugi, who abuses her, treating her like an animal: depriving her of clothes, muzzling and shackling her, and even whipping her for failure.

* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': When Haara's illusory clothes disappear in the middle of the demon city, Fiora's plan to escape involves putting her in a dog leash and walking her on all fours, to make other pedestrians assume she's a submissive demon who likes role-playing and is merely shapeshifted into a human as her kink. Amazingly, it actually ''works'' for a little bit.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Foundling}}'' has Reimu treated like this (being called "Setugo") when she's taken in by Yakumos, of whom Ren treats her (as Chen put it) "like an old bitch would do a lapdog" if he isn't ignoring her (i.e., pretending that 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.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1897 SCP-1897]] details aliens that come to abduct people which they then lobotomize, castrate, and train as pets.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Foundling}}'' has Reimu treated like this (being called "Setugo") when she's taken in by Yakumos, of whom Ren treats her (as Chen put it) "like an old bitch would do a lapdog" if he isn't ignoring her (i.e., pretending that 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.

* ''Manga/TheBeastAndHisPetHighSchoolGirl'' takes place in a world where {{beastm|en}}an 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.
* ''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.

* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': In the original manga, Yugi's snobby classmate Kujirada had a "hidden character" [[Toys/{{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.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In one issue, Tigra is caught by Kraven the Hunter and subjected to a "mnemonic scrambler" (more or less a SlaveCollar) that reduces her intelligence to that of a common tiger. He then keeps her like some obedient RightHandCat until ComicBook/SpiderMan shows up and is 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.
* Creator/ImageComics: In ''ComicBook/TheHumans'', 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 ''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.
* 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. The issue ends on a narration from the aliens, describing them as getting humans as a rescue instead of from a breeder.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7395348/1/Collared Collared]]'' deconstructs the events of "[[Recap/TeenTitansS2E2EveryDogHasHisDay Every Dog Has His Day]]" 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.]]
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/827529/chapters/1571549 Lab Specimen]]'': Implied 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 ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/616971/chapters/1112940 To Feel Alive]]'' Ryuk finds Light to be adorable and considers him to be his favorite pet.
* ''Fanfic/{{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.

* [[https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37199442/ Soviet Pokemon]] is named for this. By its conclusion, pretty much every named original human character is either dead or has a Pokemon as its master.

* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5463870/1/Property-Of Property Of]]" is an AU of the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' where a group of Decepticons discovered Earth in secret and began to sell humans as pets back on Cybertron, hiding their sentience from the rest of the population. As the fic unfolds, Sam and Mikaela are purchased by Bumblebee, Ironhide takes custody of Annabelle Lennox after she's rescued from a neglectful owner, and Sam's friend Miles is purchased by Prowl. This dynamic is shifted later on when these Autobots realise that their "pets" are sentient, such as Bumblebee recalling how Sam and Mikaela were able to activate his radio when he was injured or Ironhide observing Annabelle trying to imitate Cybertronian.
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': PlayedForLaughs in Episode 8 of Season 2. While on the Irken planet of Slumia as part of a trip with Nyx, Gaz is mistaken for an animal (due to the Irkens not recognizing her species) and sent to the pound, where the dim-witted Animal Catcher insists on collaring and grooming her despite her clearly being sapient, using borderline InsaneTrollLogic to justify it.

* ''Film/BladeII'': Lampshaded by a vampire familiar who would rather be a vampire's pet than a vampire's meal.

* ''Film/ThePet'': A poor American girl agrees to "replace" an European aristocrat's recently deceased dog.

* "Literature/BreedingHumans" by Harold King, a short story where a race of avians breed a race of humanoids for meat, pets, ect. Eventually one rebels and becomes leader of a race that would call themselves elves.

* ''Literature/GulliversTravels'': In the second section, Gulliver finds himself in Brobdignag, 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.

* ''Literature/ThePets'' 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.
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' 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.

* ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'': Lampshaded. 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.

* 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.%%Title?
* ''[[Literature/TheTripods The City of Gold and Lead]]''. Will is sent as a slave into the eponymous city to spy on their alien Masters for LaResistance. He's bought by a kindly Master who cites the MansBestFriend trope when Will nurses him through a lengthy illness, causing Will to realise that his Master regards him as a pet dog or cat. Fortunately this relationship gives Will the leeway to gather information that he otherwise could not get.
* In the final story of ''Literature/{{Accelerando}}'' Aineko, an ArtificialIntelligence in the form of a pet cat, reveals that he's been [[TheDogWasTheMastermind manipulating the protagonists for generations]]. "Besides, you humans keep pets too. But you ''were'' fun to play with."
* ''Literature/WestOfEden''. The Yilanè kidnap Kerrick as a child so they can study the humans, who are regarded as akin to hostile animals or vermin. However when Kerrick uses his ability to lie (unknown to the Yilanè) to help Vaintè assassinate a rival, she starts to treat him like this (as well as using him as a SexSlave). Thanks to the heirarchial nature of Yilanè society, Kerrick's close association with one of their leaders adds to his own status. This is why when Kerrick turns against her and flees, Vaintè takes it ''very'' personally, driving her to KillAllHumans.

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

* ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'': Humans being turned into domesticated animals is discussed as a possibility for humanity under Martian rule.
-->'''Stranger''': These Martians will make pets of some of 'em, train 'em to do tricks. Who knows? Get sentimental over the pet boy who grew up and had to be killed...

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* In the "Island and the Idol" arc of ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Bob eventually deduces this is why the [[EldritchStarship Cone Ship]] has abducted him, Jean, and Voluptua. He's mostly right.

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': A human pet known as kitten - 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.

--->'''Fry:''' ''(After Bender suggests they share an apartment)'' You're sure I won't be imposing?\\

** 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 finally tracks him down, he finds him being treated by an Omicronian vet.

* ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' had an episode where Kevin lands on a planet where dogs keep humans as pets. At the end, when Krypto arrives to rescue him, he pretends that Kevin is his pet to get the dogs to release him without making a fuss.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': In "Doom With a View", an alien robot from The Cluster (a society of [[FantasticRacism human-hating robots]] who wish to capture them as slaves for their planet) tries to persuade Jenny into joining their planet. When it captures Brad, it tells him that since he's Jenny's best-friend she could possibly keep him as a pet. Brad later protests saying that collars give him a rash.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': In "[[Recap/TeenTitansS2E2EveryDogHasHisDay Every Dog Has His Day]]", Beast Boy is captured and kept as a pet by an alien. 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, sapient dog.