The word "pet" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun, verb, or adjective. For example: I have a pet dog that I love to take for walks.
Do you have a favourite haunt or a pet hate?
What it isn't is an adorable pet, small child or anything you'd want to cuddle up to without calling pest control first.
The pet rooms have also been used to raise money for local charities.
We tend to focus on the positive: over 60bn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles were recycled in Europe in 2012.
Instead, the government has used the money raised from spending cuts and increased taxes for its pet projects.
It all started with Georgette's pet monkey.
I took him for Bobo's pet but he was a stray who decided to adopt us.
"And the child loves the pet," Sinason nods.
"Yet another innocent, beloved pet has been shot and killed by a police officer," a character in the trademark Guy Fawkes mask said, warning of retribution against Coeur d'Alene police.
If you are obliged to answer standard questions such as "first school" or "first pet" remember the answer doesn't have to be true, it only has to be something you can remember.
Contrast that with what we have now: a host of ethnic identities all competing with one another for recognition and government funding for their own pet projects – not on the grounds of what they do but on who they claim to represent.
