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How might pets have changed the course of history?

Asked by LostInParadise (31921points) July 27th, 2015

I just came across this story about how Newton’s pet dog is believed to have caused his manuscript on gravity to be burnt to a crisp. It got me to wondering about other ways that pets might have altered history. What if Alexander Fleming’s dog knocked over his petri dishes containing bacteria being attacked by penicillin? See if you can imagine other scenarios. Is there some way that a pet might have altered history for the better?

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