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Is having a pet engaging in animal slavery?

You buy a pet, it has no choice but to come and live with you, can we even consider a pet to be able to give consent to ownership?  Even if the pet has a better life, if it could never consent to ownership it would still be slavery?

These thoughts were kinda inspired from some of the arguments for veganism I had read where the blurry line between what we actually consider an animal/human is often used to point out hypocrisy in meat-eaters arguments.
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One might think that for a relationship to count as slavery, the weaker party has to have an significant form of autonomy that is being denied by the relationship. But many animals just don’t have that.