Vladimir briefly looked over the slightly complicated title, asking, "What are small animals?"

"The definition of 'small animals'… In general, most animals like cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, anything smaller in size that can be domesticated and reared by humans," Zhang Zian answered.

"Isn't that just pets then? Why not just write 'pets'?" it asked.

"The concepts of pets and small animals overlap a lot, but they are not completely identical," Zhang Zian patiently answered. "For example, the country has ruled that most types of parrots cannot be reared as personal pets. If we only protect pets, then most parrots would be ruled out of it… Besides, the scope of 'pets' is too narrow. If a cat reared in a home by a human is a pet, it would be protected. But if it ran out or got lost and became a stray, then it wouldn't be protected. That's not right. Should the law be protecting the cat itself or the family? Bad people would be jumping through loopholes all day if we phrased it this way.