Then I noticed he was looking at me in a strange way as if I was a pet white mouse he was about to offer a piece of cheese.

BBC: By Brian Walden

Edward Reeve stayed inside and tried to teach parlor tricks to his snappish pet ferret with white crumbles of Yorkshire cheese.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Exiles'

For example, the bill includes a pet idea of White House budget chief Peter Orszag, called the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

FORBES

Besides, congressmen had quickly adjusted to the new regime, and were now lobbying the White House directly to get their pet projects approved.

ECONOMIST: The line-item veto

James White, who studies in York, fried his flatmate's pet while he was drunk, Selby Magistrates' Court heard.

BBC: Animal ban for student who fried flatmate's hamster