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The advent of smartphones, social media, and other technologies

have altered the way people interact with each other.

Just watch a group of people out for a meal together,

all on their phones texting people who aren't there.

Technology may also be poised to change the way we relate to animals

by removing the living, breathing ones from our homes.

The main threat to pets is not social media per se,

but rather robots.

Rough, rough, and virtual farm-ville-like animals.

These inanimate objects of our affection are certainly easier to care for than the real ones,

and they still might someday meet their owner's needs for companionship, love, obedience, and dependence.

That's according to University of Melbourne Animal Behavior Researcher Jean-Loup Rout, writing in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

The infiltration of fake pets is already happening to a small degree.

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