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* Komugi, the lead character in ''Amime/WonderfulPrecure'', is a dog who gained the ability to talk and turn into a human. The only humans who know about this are her owner, Iroha, and Iroha's friend Satoru.
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** [[BunniesForCuteness Angel Bunny]] doesn't talk, but clearly understands what [[{{Pegasus}} Fluttershy]] is saying to him, and often tries to communicate his response in non-verbal ways.

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** [[BunniesForCuteness Angel Bunny]] doesn't talk, but clearly understands what [[{{Pegasus}} Fluttershy]] is saying to him, and often tries to communicate his response in non-verbal ways. "She Talks To Angel" reveals him to be completely sapient, as he speaks just fine when put into a non-rabbit body.
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* In Literature/TreasureHoard, every pet seen is a sapient FunnyAnimal. It's portrayed as entirely normal if slightly uncommon.

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* In Literature/TreasureHoard, ''Literature/TreasureHoard'', every pet seen is a sapient FunnyAnimal. It's portrayed as entirely normal if slightly uncommon.
* The title character of ''The Ship's Cat'' by Richard Adams and Alan Aldridge, is a ship's cat on an Elizabethan galleon, who communicates freely with the crew, stands on his hind legs, and wears [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal breeches and a shirt]]. He almost backs out of the trope, in fact, being treated less as a pest-control animal and more as a full member of the crew (even by the Spanish, who imprison him as an enemy sailor).
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**However this is also msotly zigzagged with, as it is implied not all dogs (and animals in-general) can do everything Snoopy can do, even if they are all sentient; Whenever other dogs are shown such as in the Life is a Circus special, they aren't casually walking or dancing on two feet all the time like Snoopy can do. Not to mention Charlie Brown always remarking, "Why can't I have a normal dog like everybody else?", implying Snoopy is not the norm for most dogs.
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* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': Not long after her arrival on the server, Tubbo excitedly asked for Bek, who holds the Chameleon origin[[note]]the server runs on a MassRaceSelection mechanism, of which each origin is one[[/note]], to be his pet chameleon, which she is adamantly against but agreed to as a "temporary living situation" since she didn't have a house yet. Once she acquires herself a place of residence and files for "emancipation" from this status, Tubbo brushes her off, leading her to turn against Tubbo to work as Phil's spy.

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* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': Not long after her arrival on the server, Tubbo excitedly asked for Bek, who holds the Chameleon origin[[note]]the server runs on a MassRaceSelection MassiveRaceSelection mechanism, of which each origin is one[[/note]], to be his pet chameleon, which she is adamantly against but agreed to as a "temporary living situation" since she didn't have a house yet. Once she acquires herself a place of residence and files for "emancipation" from this status, Tubbo brushes her off, leading her to turn against Tubbo to work as Phil's spy.

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* ''WebVideo/OriginsSMP'': Not long after her arrival on the server, Tubbo excitedly asked for Bek, who holds the Chameleon origin[[note]]the server runs on a MassRaceSelection mechanism, of which each origin is one[[/note]], to be his pet chameleon, which she is adamantly against but agreed to as a "temporary living situation" since she didn't have a house yet. Once she acquires herself a place of residence and files for "emancipation" from this status, Tubbo brushes her off, leading her to turn against Tubbo to work as Phil's spy.

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* The title character of the children's book series ''Literature/RottenRalph'' is Sarah's pet cat, who behaves like a human being and is able to speak.



* The title character of the children's book series ''Literature/RottenRalph'' is Sarah's pet cat, who behaves like a human being and is able to speak.

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* In Literature/TreasureHoard, every pet seen is a sapient FunnyAnimal. It's portrayed as entirely normal if slightly uncommon.
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* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' has Rio-Ohki, the cabbit. Around her caretakers she is as smart as a human child. Around everyone else, though, she's a pet.

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* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' has Rio-Ohki, Ryo-Ohki, the cabbit. Around her caretakers she is as smart as a human child. Around everyone else, though, she's a pet.



* Luna and Artemis from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' can talk and have powers, but only do so to the Sailor Scouts.

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* Luna and Artemis from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' can talk and have powers, but only do so to the Sailor Scouts.guardians.



* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Jafar's parrot Iago is intelligent, but hides this from people like the sultan in the first movie.

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* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Jafar's parrot Iago is intelligent, but hides this from people like the sultan in for most of the first movie.



%%* WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo is a prime example.
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example, as he can talk, though with a dog-like speech impediment, and often flip-flops between walking on all fours like a normal dog and walking and moving like a human. This extends to his family members, most of whom can speak clearer than Scooby, and his nephew Scrappy in particular is almost always standing upright.
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Astro from ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' is a similar case, though he's more prone to staying on all fours and also has that dog-like voice, he can speak nonetheless and is perfectly capable of acting like a human.

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** It turns out that "void mages" can only summon humanoid familiars, so by definition the familiar of a void mage is always a sentient pet.

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** It turns out that "void mages" can only ''only'' summon humanoid familiars, so by definition that definition, the familiar of a void mage is always a sentient pet.


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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Luna from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' is a cat that can talk and summon magical gear from somewhere, but keeping magic under a masquerade means she'd hide her sapient nature from non-Sailor Senshi, not that we see any such interactions since she's only seen and talked to be by known mages or other people that know magic exists.


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* ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': After gaining sapience in ''Fanfic/{{Oversaturation}}'', Spike has no reason to hide his magically-granted sapience because magic is known.
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* Madam in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' keeps the demon dog Cerberus as a pet; like all demons, Cerberus is sentient, and is much more erudite than his fellow beast demons. Cerberus also used to be an ordinary nonsentient pet dog who became a demon to protect his master, the hero of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI''.
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* Pretty much every animal character in ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'', whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, Cleo the Unicorn, Spike the Panther and Suger the Dragon (the baby animals Tamara takes care of), and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels. Moondance and Sunstar also qualify as {{Sapient Steed}}s.

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* Pretty much every animal character in ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'', whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, Cleo the Unicorn, Spike the Panther and Suger the Dragon (the baby animals Tamara takes care of), and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels. Moondance and Sunstar Sunstar, and to lesser extent, Grimm, also qualify as {{Sapient Steed}}s.
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* Team Rocket's Meowth from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. All Pokemon are sapient, though Meowth is the only one that speaks.

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* Team Rocket's Meowth from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. All Pokemon ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' is just as intelligent (if not more so) as his human partners, Jessie and James. Downplayed in that all Pokémon are sapient, though sapient; it's just Meowth is one of the only one few that speaks.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Transformers}}'': Played with regarding the animalistic cassetticons and recordbots working for Soundwave and Blaster. While they never talk in the cartoon, they're all but stated to be at least as intelligent as any other member of their teams. And in other mediums Ravage, Laserbeak, Steeljaw, and the rest are all fully capable of carrying fluent conversations.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Transformers}}'': ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': Played with regarding the animalistic cassetticons and recordbots working for Soundwave and Blaster. While they never talk in the cartoon, they're all but stated to be at least as intelligent as any other member of their teams. And in other mediums Ravage, Laserbeak, Steeljaw, and the rest are all fully capable of carrying fluent conversations.
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%%* * Porkchop from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is acknowledged to be the cast to be a dog, but he otherwise acts largely like a human, doing things like walking on two legs, jamming out to music on a music player, and riding bicycles and everyone treating it as completely normal. The only time Porkchop has ever actually been treated like a normal dog by more than one member of the cat is in the Nickelodeon run's ChristmasEpisode, wherein Porkchop accidentally injures Beebe while saving her from falling through thin ice on a frozen lake, which gets him muzzled and in legitimate danger of being put down.

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* UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's dog Lucky from the ''Series/SpittingImage'' tv special ''The Ronnie and Nancy Show'' is portayed as fully sentient but only shows it around Ronnie due to him being a [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Buffoon]].
-> '''Ronnie:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext I had a ball in my mouth, dummy.]] I was playing fetch with Lucky.\\
'''Ed:''' Shouldn't Lucky be the one doing the fetching, Sir?\\
'''Ronnie:''' No, [[CassandraTruth Lucky's doing the defense budget.]]\\
'''Ed:''' Oh, yes, yes, of course he is.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Perry the Platypus hides his sapience from his owners, because discovering that he's a secret agent would cause a '[[LaserGuidedAmnesia Mindwipe]]'. He cannot speak any human languague, but is completely sapient nonetheless.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Perry the Platypus hides his sapience from his owners, because discovering that he's a secret agent would cause a '[[LaserGuidedAmnesia Mindwipe]]'. He cannot speak any human languague, language, but is completely sapient nonetheless.
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* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', magic school students are required to summon a familiar as part of their second year final exam, and the familair summoned is considered a pet, regardless of what ends up being summoned. The students themselves have no idea what will happen as the spell chooses their familiar for them.

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* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'', magic school students are required to summon a familiar as part of their second year final exam, and the familair summoned is considered a pet, regardless of what ends up being summoned. The students themselves have no idea what will happen as the spell chooses their familiar for them.



* For a brief time, Shamisen in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', before Haruhi's powers returned him to normal. (Presumably.) While sentient, he avoided speaking in Haruhi's presence.

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* For a brief time, Shamisen in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', before Haruhi's powers returned him to normal. (Presumably.) While sentient, he avoided speaking in Haruhi's presence.
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* Monkey from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory.''

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* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} is this in ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow''. The other cats are generally assumed to be this as well.

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* The Wonder Twins from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' had a monkey named Gleep.
* WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo is a prime example.
* So is Astro from ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''
* WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla lives in a pet store; every once in a while he's bought to be a pet, but [[StatusQuoIsGod he's returned by the end]] of the short.

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* %%* WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo is a prime example.
* %%* So is Astro from ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''
* WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla is a talking, suspender-clad gorilla who lives in a pet store; every once in a while he's bought to be a pet, but [[StatusQuoIsGod he's returned by the end]] of the short.



* The titular dog of ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks''
* The cats of ''WesternAnimation/SlackerCats''
* Malloy the bear cub from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}''
* Porkchop from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''

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* Pretty much every animal character in ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'', whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, Cleo the Unicorn, Spike the Panther and Suger the Dragon (the baby animals Tamara takes care of), and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels.

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* Pretty much every animal character in ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'', whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, Cleo the Unicorn, Spike the Panther and Suger the Dragon (the baby animals Tamara takes care of), and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels. Moondance and Sunstar also qualify as {{Sapient Steed}}s.
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* ''Webcomic/MeemsAndFeefs'' can both happily hold conversations with their owner and her guests, and belong to an entire semi-secret civilisation of ferrets.
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* In the ''Franchise/StarWars RPG'' Sourcebook, "Cracken's Rebel Operatives", Moff Jarnek's CoolPet Daerlar is a Covallon. Because Covallon walk on all fours, it isn't widely known that they're a fully sentient race. Dearlar chooses to keep this fact secret rather than seeking his freedom because [[spoiler: he is a spy working for Cracken, and his position is the perfect "cover".]]

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* In the ''Franchise/StarWars RPG'' Sourcebook, "Cracken's Rebel Operatives", Moff Jarnek's CoolPet pet Daerlar is a Covallon. Because Covallon walk on all fours, it isn't widely known that they're a fully sentient race. Dearlar chooses to keep this fact secret rather than seeking his freedom because [[spoiler: he is a spy working for Cracken, and his position is the perfect "cover".]]
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* Pretty much every animal character in ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'', whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, the baby animals Tamara takes care of and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels.

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* Pretty much every animal character in ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'', whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, Cleo the Unicorn, Spike the Panther and Suger the Dragon (the baby animals Tamara takes care of of), and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'' has all the animals in the show, whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, the baby animals Tamara takes care of and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels.

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* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'' has all the animals Pretty much every animal character in the show, ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'', whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, the baby animals Tamara takes care of and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'' has all the animals in the show, whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, the baby animals Tamara takes care of and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm and the Dweezels.

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* WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders has all the animals in the show, whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, the baby animals Tamara takes care of and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm and the Dweezels.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 11: Subterranean Animism'', many of Satori Komeji's pets have lived so long under her care that they have become sapient youkai, who are still loyal to her out of appreciation and friendship.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 11: Subterranean Animism'', ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'', many of Satori Komeji's pets have lived so long under her care that they have become sapient youkai, who are still loyal to her out of appreciation and friendship.



* In Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}, there is a race of cat people with the approximate size and intelligence level as children. Normally, they're kept as slaves, but Ariel's is more like a pet. Also, humans are considered animals by drow, and one has been referred to as a pet.

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* In Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}, ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', there is a race of cat people with the approximate size and intelligence level as children. Normally, they're kept as slaves, but Ariel's is more like a pet. Also, humans are considered animals by drow, and one has been referred to as a pet.



* So is Astro from WesternAnimation/TheJetsons

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* In the ''StarWars RPG'' Sourcebook, "Cracken's Rebel Operatives", Moff Jarnek's CoolPet Daerlar is a Covallon. Because Covallon walk on all fours, it isn't widely known that they're a fully sentient race. Dearlar chooses to keep this fact secret rather than seeking his freedom because [[spoiler: he is a spy working for Cracken, and his position is the perfect "cover".]]

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* In the ''StarWars ''Franchise/StarWars RPG'' Sourcebook, "Cracken's Rebel Operatives", Moff Jarnek's CoolPet Daerlar is a Covallon. Because Covallon walk on all fours, it isn't widely known that they're a fully sentient race. Dearlar chooses to keep this fact secret rather than seeking his freedom because [[spoiler: he is a spy working for Cracken, and his position is the perfect "cover".]]

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