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=== Literature ===
* ''[[Myth Adventures]]'': Gleep the Dragon. All the human(oid) characters hear him say is "[[Verbal Tic Name|Gleep!]]" but it turns out he's [[Eloquent in His Native Tongue]]. He's just too young to have developed the muscle control to speak humanoid language.
* Toto in the later ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|Oz]]'' books. Someone notes that of all the animals in Oz -- including many imported from outside its borders -- Toto is the only one that doesn't speak. At which point Toto admits that he can speak, but didn't want to for fear that Dorothy would stop treating him as a pet and stop pampering him.
=== Tabletop Games ===
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* [[South Park]] has Lemmiwinks, the adventuring gerbil. Although he never speaks he is intelligent enough to use tools such as weapons and solve problems no gerbil would be able to solve while humans aren't around. Around humans he's just a gerbil.
* [[Futurama]] Has Nibbler the Niblonian, part of an ancient race of geniuses who pretend to be stupid in order to protect and monitor "lesser races" like humans. Any time the masquerade breaks, they simply erase the memory of all who saw the break.
* Fat Cat in the pilot episode of ''[[
== Sapient Pets That [[The Masquerade|Masquerade]] as Normal Pets Around Some Humans ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* [[Tenchi Muyo!]] has Rio-Ohki, the cabbit. Around her caretakers she is as smart as a human child. Around everyone else, though, she's a pet.
* In ''[[
** Tabitha summons a large rhyme dragon she names Sylphid. We find out just how sentient Sylphid is when it's revealed that {{spoiler|rhyme dragons are shapeshifters and Tabitha's "sister" Illococoo is really Sylphid's human form.}}
** Louise summons Seito, a young man from the modern world. Though Seito is treated by everone else as a human (to the point that he is later knighted and thus legally a noble in wizard society despite being a [[Muggle]]), Louise still treats him as a pet.
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* Luna and Artemis from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' can talk and have powers, but only do so to the Sailor Scouts.
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* Salem Saberhagen from ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' is a warlock transformed into a black cat as a punishment for trying to take over the world. Around other witches and warlocks he is (mostly) treated as a person but around [[Muggles]] he acts like a normal pet cat owned by Sabrina. The premise is the same in the live action TV show.
** It was also adapted into an animated television series, in which not only was Salem a talking cat, he would also occasionally stand upright and wear clothing, but typically only when not around [[Muggles]].
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=== Comic Books ===
* In ''[[Alejandro Jodorowsky|The Incal]]'', Deepo, a so-called "concrete" seagull and pet of the protagonist John [[Di Fool]], gains the ability to talk thanks to an encounter with the mystical Incal artifact.
* Howard Chaykin's ''American Flagg!'' includes Raul, a cat who's sometimes entrusted to "hold the fort" at the Plexus Rangers (police) office. He sometimes wears manipulator "gloves" that let him operate complex machinery. In the second issue's opening, he [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] to give a synopsis of the first issue, and [[Deadpan Snarker|snarks at the reader]], "That's ''right''. A talking ''cat''. [[Sarcasm Mode|You ''are'' quick]]." '''Why''' Raul is sapient, and how many other sapient animals may exist, are never addressed. When he first spoke in front of main character Reuben Flagg, Flagg's only reaction was to think, ''Talking cat. Right.'' without real surprise.
=== Film ===
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