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  • Neither, he’s just a dog. Is your (hypothetical) real-world dog disabled? Is your dog engaging in kink? No, it’s just a dog, and we’ve generally accepted that it’s ok to own/adopt one into your home.

    Is a marmoset that is owned/adopted as a pet by a fellow simian human somehow mentally disabled or engaging in pet play? No, it’s just a monkey, and sometimes they’re pets.

    Just because a human and a marmoset are both simians, both primates, doesn’t mean we treat them the same. The same is clearly the case for Goofy, Mickey, and Pluto.

    There’s a lot of examples of non-personified cartoon animals in those comics and cartoons, typically in the background. It’s just how the world works, animals owning animals, just like us.