A Pet For Your Pet For Your Pet For . . .

I've lately been posting a bit lately about the Roman Empire (not because it's particularly on my mind, but because I keep stumbling across cool articles about it).

In that same vein, I recently discovered that Roman elites had monkeys as pets . . . and some of those monkeys had kittens or piglets as pets of their own. Here's the article summarizing it, and here's the Cambridge University Press abstract it's basing this info off of.

So – RPG gamers – if you're now going to have wealthy people in your campaigns whose pets have pets, you'll be joining a noble tradition that includes a particularly fancy character I'm playing in my next game . . .

-- Steven Marsh