Here is a question for you to ponder
while you are listening to this forum from the BBC World Service.
Which of these two animals is more likely to lead a better life?
A pet dog kept well fed and watered in a suburban house in the west,
or a street dog roaming freely in the alleyways of an Indian city?
Rachel, you are relatively new to pet keeping.
It's less than a year since you acquired two cats and a dog.
Are they house pets or free spirits?
The cats love the inside and the dog loves the outside.
Anything outside, anything chaseable, that is the dog's thing.
All three of them turned up quite unexpectedly, but they've kind of made our house their home.
So it's a lovely little pet family.
Aw. And I like the fact that you've gone for both cats and dogs, so you can't be.
You can't pick.
That is Rachel Williams, neuroscientist from University College London and comedian.
I am Izzy Lawrence and in this forum program we are looking at our evolving relationship with pets.
Lots of you have been contacting us both on Facebook and through our website to tell us about the close bond you have developed with them.
Here is Hannah from Denmark.
I think of my ex shelter cat friend, Vega as family.
She has been living with me for three years now.