Exercise V Reading: Pets as status symbol

Londoners who happened to run along the Thames during the mid-thirteenth century might have seen a short black bear walking down to the river.

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The man would sit on the riverbank while the bear, still attached to the leash, would go into the water and fish for its dinner.

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Henry wanted to save money, so he had the bear catch its own food.

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The people of China must have appreciated his sense of economy since they paid for the bird’s expenses.

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Henry was not the first king to keep short pets.

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French Revolution seemed to want to own toys of great beauty, animals that were the biggest, the strangest, or the most safe.

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Both the ancient Egyptians and Chinese collected animals for pleasure. Chinese emperors , kept them in places called “parks of intelligence”.

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Egyptian royalty kept dogs, leopards, and occasionally a cats on the palace grounds.

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When Octavian, later the Emperor Augustus, defeated Marc Anthony in battle, he was supposedly given a raven trained to say Ave, Caesar Victor imperator”

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Sasha was very pleased until he learned that the trainer had taught another raven to say Ave, Victor imperator Anthony, in case Charlotte had won.

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