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Sapient Pet
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Pet characters in most works are Nearly Normal Animals, whether with the ability to talk in Animal Talk or not. These animals, however, are just animals, not intelligent beings like humans. This trope, on the other hand, is about pets who are intelligent and able to interact with their owners (usually a human, but can be a human-surrogate animal or alien) on the same level. Sometimes these pets are actually smarter than their owners and choosing to hide it, other times they are open about being sapient beings and are accepted as part of the human world as well as their own world. Pets that shift between humanoid and "pet" forms do not go here and should be under Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag instead. There are several variations on this Sapient Pets That Masquerade as Normal Pets Around All Humans: These beings choose to hide that they are at least as smart as a human. Sometimes this involves a disguise as a normal animal, other times the entire species plays dumb to stay hidden. The examples including Broken Masquerades would belong here, as a broken masquerade would suggest that there is a masquerade. Unlike the other variants, it doesn't involve animals being treated as pets and people simultaneously. Sapient Pets That Masquerade as Normal Pets Around Some Humans: Unlike the above variant, these beings can behave like humans around some humans but not around others. Unlike the above variation, they are treated either like people if only those who know are around or as pets if humans who should not know they are sapient are around. They do not shapeshift to do this, they simply modify their behavior. Shapeshifters that turn from humanoids into pets and back in order to hide go under Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag, not here. Openly Sapient Pets: These are intelligent beings that don't hide that they are intelligent. Some of these beings are treated like non-sapient animals despite their sapience, and others are treated as the sapient beings they are. They may be accepted by humans around them or humans may react in horror. Either way, these beings are not afraid to "be themselves". This trope also includes sapient animals and aliens who are service animals, lab animals, livestock, circus animals, or zoo animals. Not to be confused with Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag. Sister trope to Sapient Steed. See also Civilized Animal, Funny Animal, and the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism. Supertrope of Human Pet. Related to Amplified Animal Aptitude and Intellectual Animal. Many Weasel Mascots fit this trope too. |
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Madam in Shin Megami Tensei II keeps the demon dog Cerberus as a pet; like all demons, Cerberus is sentient, and is much more erudite than his fellow beast demons. Cerberus also used to be an ordinary nonsentient pet dog who became a demon to protect his master, the hero of Shin Megami Tensei I. | |
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Kat from Kid vs. Kat is a hyper-intelligent 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. | |
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Zig-zagged, and occasionally ambigious, in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. It seems fairly clear that, for instance, Jennyanydots's owners have no idea that she spends her nights civilising the mice and cockroaches, but it's less obvious whether, say, Skimbleshanks's belief that he's basically running the train is shared by the human staff, or if they just see him as a mascot. Humans seem to see Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser as badly-behaved animals rather than professional criminals, but the police are aware of their boss, Macavity. And so on. Many of the poems gloss over the cats' relationship with humans altogether. | |
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Astro from The Jetsons is a similar case, though he's more prone to staying on all fours and also has that dog-like voice, he can speak nonetheless and is perfectly capable of acting like a human. | |
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In "Wags to Riches" and its remake "Millionaire Droopy," Spike the Bulldog (no, not the Tom and Jerry one) and Droopy the Bassett Hound are portrayed as this. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Adam's companion Cringer is a fully sapient Eternian tiger, in part due to his connection got he Power of Grayskull. Funnily enough when the duo make their first trip to Etheria, Cringer manages to shock the innkeeper of the Laughing Swan by ordering a fish dinner from the man. | |
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Quite a few pets from Looney Tunes are like this too, including the cat and mouse in "Pizzicato Pussycat" and Marc Anthony the bulldog. | |
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In Treasure Hoard, every pet seen is a sapient Funny Animal. It's portrayed as entirely normal if slightly uncommon. | |
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The entire premise of Teacher's 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. |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: Luna from Sailor Moon is a cat that can talk and summon magical gear from somewhere, but keeping magic under a masquerade means she'd hide her sapient nature from non-Sailor Senshi, not that we see any such interactions since she's only seen and talked to be by known mages or other people that know magic exists. | |
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Tenchi Muyo! has Ryo-Ohki, the cabbit. Around her caretakers she is as smart as a human child. Around everyone else, though, she's a pet. | |
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Corneil from Watch My Chops is a hyper-intelligent and very talented talking dog. He keeps this a secret to all but his dogsitter Bernie to avoid unwanted attention. | |
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Dilbert's dog Dogbert is openly intelligent. After the first few years of the strip this morphed into him being Dilbert's roommate more than a pet. | |
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Blitzer the sheepdog in Shaun the Sheep is openly sapient. Shaun and his flock are sometimes portrayed as maintaining a masquerade around the farmer, presumably to avoid being held responsible for the chaos they bring. | |
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Newt The dachshund dog in the Animaniacs episode, “Meet Minerva� may be a Funny Animal who talks, but he is still the hunting dog of a hunter. | |
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The Transformers: Played with regarding the animalistic cassetticons and recordbots working for Soundwave and Blaster. While they never talk in the cartoon, they're all but stated to be at least as intelligent as any other member of their teams. And in other mediums Ravage, Laserbeak, Steeljaw, and the rest are all fully capable of carrying fluent conversations. | |
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Raul the Cat of American Flagg! is a Talking Animal and quite intelligent, despite being an ordinary housecat in every other way. | |
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Frequent in Homestuck. Both Jade Harley and Jane Crocker have godlike First Guardians as pets, which clearly display malign but ultimately protective sapience. Both Terezi and Tavros have clearly sapient lusii; Tavros even plays bizarre alien card games with his. | |
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Magilla Gorilla is a talking, suspender-clad gorilla who lives in a pet store; every once in a while he's bought to be a pet, but he's returned by the end of the short. | |
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In Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism, many of Satori Komeji's pets have lived so long under her care that they have become sapient youkai, who are still loyal to her out of appreciation and friendship. | |
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In Schlock Mercenary, when Ice Kreelies are first introduced they're said to be smart enough to play chess, and are sold as pets and delicacies. Later it turns out that they become fully sapient if infected with a certain bacterium in adolescence, and their government is the biggest supplier of pet and meat Kreelies. | |
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In The Parselmouth of Gryffindor, Owls are essentially this of the first category, not so much out of choice as because wizards can't (or don't want to) see how intelligent they are. Meanwhile, Peter Pettigrew claims to be a magical rat and Ron's "secret pet", thus of the second sort. And snakes in general are more or less of the second sort as well, since Parselmouths know them to be sapient but most other people don't. | |
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Keidran from TwoKinds, by some of the nicer humans (of course, they're also seen as a source of cheap labour by more dickish humans). The Keidran are officially slaves. | |
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Meems And Feefs can both happily hold conversations with their owner and her guests, and belong to an entire semi-secret civilisation of ferrets. | |
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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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Gremlins has the Mogwai which, when maltreated, become the even more intelligent and dangerous Gremlins. | |
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In Dwarf Fortress it's trivial to do a Game Mod to turn any sapient species into one which can also be a pet, just by adding the [PET] tag to the right place in the right plain-text file. Of course, since the game designer never intended sentient species to be pets, this can lead to strange results, like a sapient pet being elected mayor. | |
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Myth Adventures: Gleep the Dragon. All the human(oid) characters hear him say is "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. | |
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The title character of the children's book series Rotten Ralph is Sarah's pet cat, who behaves like a human being and is able to speak. | |
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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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The Wonder Pets! are ordinary classroom pets, until school ends, and they put on capes, fly in a flying ship and rescue baby animals. | |
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For a brief time, Shamisen in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, before Haruhi's powers returned him to normal. (Presumably.) While sentient, he avoided speaking in Haruhi's presence. | |
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In Phineas and Ferb, Perry the Platypus hides his sapience from his owners, because discovering that he's a secret agent would cause a 'Mindwipe'. He cannot speak any human language, but is completely sapient nonetheless. | |
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Opus the Penguin in Bloom County is intelligent, outspoken, and, at times, paranoid. | |
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Snoopy in Peanuts, who writes novels, plays shortstop in his owner's baseball team, pretends to be a World War I pilot, and wanders the neighbourhood in sunglasses as Joe Cool. To the extent that Peppermint Patty had no idea he was a beagle, and thought he was a "funny-looking kid with a big nose". Apparently, most dogs are like this in the Peanuts universe; the role of "Head Beagle" is a recognised quasi-governmental position with a televised inauguration. However this is also msotly zigzagged with, as it is implied not all dogs (and animals in-general) can do everything Snoopy can do, even if they are all sentient; Whenever other dogs are shown such as in the Life is a Circus special, they aren't casually walking or dancing on two feet all the time like Snoopy can do. Not to mention Charlie Brown always remarking, "Why can't I have a normal dog like everybody else?", implying Snoopy is not the norm for most dogs. |
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In RuneScape, you can talk to a summoned familiar. Unless you have ten or more Summoning levels than your familiar requires, the familiar will just make noises back. If you do have ten levels more than your familiar, you can understand what it's saying, and carry on conversations proving the familiars are sapient. In some quests, the Summoning skill is used for speaking with non-familiar animals: in "A Clockwork Syringe" you establish a formal alliance with a wild seagull (Baron von Hattenkrapper), and in "A Void Dance" you discuss the options with a dying Void Leech. This raises the possibility that all Runescape creatures are sapient, but only sufficiently skilled Summoners can understand them. | |
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In The Familiar of Zero, 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 rhyme dragons are shapeshifters and Tabitha's "sister" Illococoo is really Sylphid's human form. Louise summons Saito, a young man from the modern world. Though Saito 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. It turns out that "void mages" can only summon humanoid familiars, so by that definition, the familiar of a void mage is always a sentient pet. |
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Pretty much every animal character in Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders, whether they be good or evil. Examples include Gwen's unicorn companion, Sunstar, Fallon's unicorn companion, Moondance, Cleo the Unicorn, Spike the Panther and Suger the Dragon (the baby animals Tamara takes care of), and Lady Kale's companions, Grimm the Dragon and the Dweezels. Moondance and Sunstar, and to lesser extent, Grimm, also qualify as Sapient Steeds. | |
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Also Krypto the Superdog for Superboy. A doglike creature from the planet Krypton, he "speaks" through thought balloons much like Snoopy. | |
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Fuu the dog from American Dragon: Jake Long. 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. | |
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In Furcadia Wyrmes keep furres as pets. Also, furres are not afraid to keep each other as pets. Generally the furres in question do not mind, either because they are well-treated or brainwashed. | |
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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. Standard procedure when The Masquerade breaks is to Mind Wipe anyone who knows how intelligent they are. Nibbler once forgets to do this; even though the crew remember that he is intelligent, they go back to treating him like a mindless pet until it becomes relevant because he seems to prefer it that way. | |
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Stan and his pups from Dog with a Blog. They are sapient dogs who can talk (and Stan can even operate a computer), but only Avery, Tyler, and Chloe (and later Grandma James and Karl) know about it. In the Grand Finale they become openly sapient. | |
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Oversaturated World: After gaining sapience in Oversaturation, Spike has no reason to hide his magically-granted sapience because magic is known. | |
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Wonder Dog in the 1973/74 season of Super Friends. A Non-Human Sidekick and Speech-Impaired Animal, he was as intelligent as a normal human being even though he couldn't talk | |
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The farm animals from Rock-A-Doodle. | |
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Scooby-Doo is a prime example, as he can talk, though with a dog-like speech impediment, and often flip-flops between walking on all fours like a normal dog and walking and moving like a human. This extends to his family members, most of whom can speak clearer than Scooby, and his nephew Scrappy in particular is almost always standing upright. | |
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Gromit the dog from Wallace & Gromit wavers between Openly Sapient Pet and Sapient Pets That Masquerade as Normal Pets Around Some Humans. | |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power: Unlike his counterpart Cringer, Adora's horse Spirit is content to act like a normal, albeit very well trained, horse around anyone not in on his mistress's secret. When alone with Adora, or in his Swift Wind identity, Spirit is quite capable of holding a full conversation and can be quite wise if asked for advice. | |
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In Heinlein's The Star Beast, Lummox is undoubtedly sapient ... as is John Thomas Stuart. The former escapes most people's notice due to language difficulties. | |
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In Drowtales, there is a race of cat people with the approximate size and intelligence level as children. Normally, they're kept as slaves, but Ariel's is more like a pet. Also, humans are considered animals by drow, and one has been referred to as a pet. | |
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Beetle Bailey: Sgt. Snorkle's dog Otto wears a uniform and walks around on two legs. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has different levels of sapience among pets. Dragon cub Spike is sort of like an adopted son or little brother to 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. Angel Bunny doesn't talk, but clearly understands what Fluttershy is saying to him, and often tries to communicate his response in non-verbal ways. "She Talks To Angel" reveals him to be completely sapient, as he speaks just fine when put into a non-rabbit body. This example has a lot of Furry Confusion going for it. Some of the non-pony animals, like sheep, are shown to be able to talk but for whatever reason, are treated like animals. The pets of the ponies, (like Angel Bunny, Opal for Rarity, and Owlicious for Twilight Sparkle) act more like their real life counterparts (except Angel, as stated, often pantomimes his wishes). It's hard to say what is and isn't sapient in that universe, considering Rule of Funny comes into play so often. |
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Origins SMP: Not long after her arrival on the server, Tubbo excitedly asked for Bek, who holds the Chameleon originnote the server runs on a Massive Race Selection mechanism, of which each origin is one, to be his pet chameleon, which she is adamantly against but agreed to as a "temporary living situation" since she didn't have a house yet. Once she acquires herself a place of residence and files for "emancipation" from this status, Tubbo brushes her off, leading her to turn against Tubbo to work as Phil's spy. | |
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Roddy from Flushed Away (also by Aardman Animations). | |
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Paco the parrot from Maya & Miguel speaks in complete sentences, but around Maya's parents and Abuela, he acts like a normal parrot. | |
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In Disney's Aladdin, Jafar's parrot Iago is intelligent, but hides this from people like the sultan for most of the first movie. | |
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Team Rocket's Meowth from Pokémon: The Series is just as intelligent (if not more so) as his human partners, Jessie and James. Downplayed in that all Pokémon are sapient; it's just Meowth is one of the few that speaks human language. | |
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Unlike in Barnyard and early episodes of Back at 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. | |
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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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Jiji the cat from Kiki's Delivery Service. Kiki, being a witch, is the only one who can understand him. She loses this ability once she loses her powers. | |
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Rex the Wonder Dog is a famous hero whose rather non-doglike behavior has been well published since the days directly after WWII, he is still a pet in the 1990s despite also being a US citizen and long time employee of the US government. Despite all the alterations made to him he still likes having a human family to come home to and act as a loyal companion for. | |
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Family Guy: Peter's dog Brian Griffin. | |
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Porkchop from Doug is acknowledged to be the cast to be a dog, but he otherwise acts largely like a human, doing things like walking on two legs, jamming out to music on a music player, and riding bicycles and everyone treating it as completely normal. The only time Porkchop has ever actually been treated like a normal dog by more than one member of the cat is in the Nickelodeon run's Christmas Episode, wherein Porkchop accidentally injures Beebe while saving her from falling through thin ice on a frozen lake, which gets him muzzled and in legitimate danger of being put down. | |
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Mister Ed pretends to be a normal horse, and only talks to directly Wilbur. He sometimes talks to other people but only when they can't see that he's a horse, such as when he makes operator assisted telephone calls, or sings when Wilbur is lip syncing, or insults a police officer when his back is turned. | |
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The comic Housepets! is about a group of Funny Animal housepets who act more like children to their human families rather than pets. | |
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Luna and Artemis from Sailor Moon can talk and have powers, but only do so to the Sailor guardians. | |
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