Though the real trick is to select remember, then again we mostly just bathe in that warm glow that hindsight provides as fleeting as it is...
I'm damn sure domesticated pets or pests as I classify them, serve next to no real declarable advantage to their "owners", maybe perhaps, well perhaps... whilst non pet owners are supposedly meant to suck it up deal that shit, that barking dog, that feral cat/dog.
Honestly I can perhaps see the appeal and perhaps maybe, just maybe there are a few mythical pet owners out there that can and do have a symbiotic arrangement with their pet. I've known a few, very few do that and there is no way I would ever, could ever consider a pet I can't really lookout for my own welfare, yet I'm not on welfare payments.