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Neither, he's just a dog. Is your (hypothetical) real-world dog disabled? Is your dog engaging in kink? No, it's just a dog, and we've generally accepted that it's ok to own/adopt one into your home.
Is a marmoset that is owned/adopted as a pet by a fellow simian human somehow mentally disabled or engaging in pet play? No, it's just a monkey, and sometimes they're pets.
Just because a human and a marmoset are both simians, both primates, doesn't mean we treat them the same. The same is clearly the case for Goofy, Mickey, and Pluto.
There's a lot of examples of non-personified cartoon animals in those comics and cartoons, typically in the background. It's just how the world works, animals owning animals, just like us.
So if I own a human as a pet, that's cool? Two humans in this universe is the same as two dogs in that one. A marmoset isn't a human. It's not a proper comparison. If you see a human being led around on a leash in this universe there are two options. Usually in cartoon universes mammals are anthropomorphic and birds and fish are not but if you have a universe where dogs are anthropomorphic and one of them is being led around on a lead, that's not right.
But they're not the same, that's what I'm getting at. One of them is a man who walks and talks, and the other is just a cartoon dog. Idk why that's so hard to understand.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.