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== Film ==
* In the film ''[[Barnyard]]'', and early episodes of its spin off series ''[[Back Atat the Barnyard]]'', the farm animals all act like dumb, domesticated animals unless they're wearing disguises when humans are around, but stand on two legs and throw parties when humans aren't around.
 
== Literature ==
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== 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 ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]'', magic school students are required to summon a familiar as part of their second year final exam, and the familair summoned is considered a pet, regardless of what ends up being summoned. The students themselves have no idea what will happen as the spell chooses their familiar for them.
** 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.}}
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== Film ==
* In Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Jafar's parrot Iago is intelligent, but hides this from people like the sultan in the first movie.
 
== Live Action TV ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Perry the Platypus from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' shows [[Funny Animal]] traits, wears a fedora, and goes by the moniker, Agent P around Doofenshmirtz and other humans, but masquerades a "normal" pet who lays around the house doing nothing around Phineas, Ferb, Candace, and their friends and family.
** In ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across Thethe Second2nd Dimension|Across the 2nd Dimension]]'', he [[Broken Masquerade|reveals his]] [[Funny Animal]] side to the two titular boys. In the end {{spoiler|Phineas and Ferb and everyone else involved, have their memories erased of the entire day, thus maintaining the masquerade}}.
* Unlike in ''[[Barnyard]]'' and early episodes of ''[[Back Atat the Barnyard]]'', the later episodes of the same show has the animals' [[Masquerade]] grow more lenient to the point that their status leans toward the Openly Sapient Pet varaint.
* The entire premise of ''[[TeachersTeacher's Pet (AnimationTV series)|Teachers Pet]]''. Spot is an ordinary housedog, but puts on clothes and goes to school posing as a boy.
** Every pet can talk and do human things, but typically keep this a secret from their human owners, with the exception of Spot and Leonard's other pets who basically let their human owner in on the secret.
* Monkey from [[DextersDexter's Laboratory]].
* Michigan J. Frog from the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon, "[[One Froggy Evening]]," sings and dances when his owner is around, but just acts like a normal frog when any other human is around.
* Kat from ''[[Kid VSvs. Kat]]'' is a hyperintelligent cat-like alien. He can't speak in the conventional sense, but he is very anthropomorphized in his actions. However, around everyone except Coop, Dennis and later Fiona, he seems like just an ordinary house cat.
* Fuu the dog from [AmericanDragon:JakeLong\]. As a magical animal, he is usually is forced to act like a normal dog around humans in the mundane world. However, other than Jake who happens to be a human/dragon hybrid, Fuu is able to socialize around Jake's friends, Trixie and Spud, who are aware of the existence of the magical world.
* The same trope is used in [[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]], with their pet pug, who has a Scottish accent.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Outlaw Star]] has Melfina the android. She starts out as more of a crew pet and accessory and slowly grows into a regular part of the crew.
* Team Rocket's Meowth from ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''
 
== Comicbooks ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Wonder Dog in the 1973/74 season of ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]''. A [[Non-Human Sidekick]] and [[Speech-Impaired Animal]], he was as intelligent as a normal human being even though he couldn't talk
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Peter's dog Brian Griffin.
* [[Garfield]] is this in ''[[The Garfield Show]]''. The other cats are generally assumed to be this as well.
* The Wonder Twins from ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'' had a monkey named Gleep.
* [[Scooby Doo]] is a prime example.
* So is Astro from [[The Jetsons]]
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* Sylvester, Tweety, and Hector from ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' are openly sapient around humans (including Granny) even though they are treated like pets.
** Quite a few pets from ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' are like this too, including the cat and mouse in "Pizzicato Pussycat" and Marc Anthony the bulldog.
* The titular cat and mouse duo of ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' is this toward people, despite their lack of ability to talk.
* In "Wags to Riches" and its remake "Millionaire Droopy," Spike the Bulldog (no, not the [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] one) and [[Droopy]] the Bassett Hound are portrayed as this.
* The titular dog of ''[[Martha Speaks]]''
* Jake from ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]''.
 
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[James H. Schmitz]] short story "Novice". Telzey Amberdon's pet crest cat Tick-Tock changes from a "Masquerades as a Normal Pet Around All Humans" (including Telzey) to "Masquerades as a Normal Pet Around Some Humans" during the course of the story, as her sapience (and those of the other crest cats) is revealed to Telzey and several few high-placed human officials.
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has different levels of sapience among pets.
** Dragon cub [[Our Dragons Are Different|Spike]] is sort of like an adopted son or little brother to [[Unicorn|Twilight Sparkle]], but in some ways he is much like a pet; Twilight Sparkle's friends know him, he very much enjoys the attention he gets from them, and like a loyal dog he often works for them and tries to protect them, and he can be very dangerous when his behaviour gets out of control. Yet Spike also talks, and has some ideas that, had they been listened to, the ponies could have avoided a lot of trouble.
** [[Everythings Better With Bunnies|Angel Bunny]] doesn't talk, but clearly understands what [[Pegasus|Fluttershy]] is saying to him, and often tries to communicate his response in non-verbal ways.
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* Gromit the dog from ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' wavers between Openly Sapient Pet and Sapient Pets That [[The Masquerade|Masquerade]] as Normal Pets Around Some Humans.
* Roddy from ''[[Flushed Away]]'' (also by [[Aardman Animations]]).
* The farm animals from ''[[Rock -a -Doodle]]''.
 
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