It is essential to distinguish pet play—which is a fully legal form of human-to-human roleplay—from bestiality or animal cruelty, which are illegal in most jurisdictions and universally condemned within the pet play community. The German Wikipedia entry on petplay explicitly notes that petplay is not associated with sexual contact with real animals, which falls under laws against sodomy and zoophilia.
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is loving your animal. Animal welfare is loving them enough to let them go when their body has failed, holding them as they pass, so they are never alone. It is essential to distinguish pet play—which is