I...think they are, actually, they came up in one list - but I was looking for cats, so I didn't take time to check that out.

[...He'd been expected to keep up with a pretty rigorous education, his family being what it was. And when he got older - even as strange as things got with Mother, as uncertain as their future (his future) seemed - the underpinnings of the Foundation's work became more important. Financial, practical, conceptual. (Ethical, maybe, though he had to be careful there, if she involved herself - too easy to say the wrong thing. Easier than the baseline.)

At thirteen, he'd thought he'd had it all figured out. At fifteen...?]

...That's how it is, though. Most animals don't want anything to do with humans, apparently.