Wookies are not Pets

Have you guys seen the commercial for the re release of the original Star Wars trilogy on dvd? You know, the one where the little girl smiles into the camera and says, "I would love to have a pet wookie." WTF!

Chewbacca is not a pet. Wookies are not pets! Can your cat fix your hyperdrive? Can Fido pilot a starship, or pull the arms off a droid. No! Why? Because they are pets. They don't do anything special except look cute, and maybe fetch the occasional paper.

Wookies are sentient beings who have long suffered under the oppression of the empire. They are a proud people with a storied history and cultural accompishments that would rival those of our own ancient empires. They have fought in an intergalatic conflict defending freedom and justice throuought the galaxy. Why then would our children seek to further humiliate our proud wookie brethren by wanting to keep them as pets?

Shameful, indeed.