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A friend posted a photo with capybara.

I want to ask if this is his pet or a farm animal.

How do I say this?

Should I use these words? 家畜, ペット
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House pet vs farm animal
Frankly, at least for me, asking if a capybara is a pet is just too outrageous
for anything to sound natural (although apparently, it is technically possible
in Japan).

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I guess normally people would say 飼ってるんですか to ask if it is a pet.

家畜 refers to animals kept for some sort of utilities - meat, agriculture etc.
As far as I know, in Japan, capybaras are not used for any of these. Mostly
they are in zoos, and animals in zoos are pragmatically neither ペット nor 家畜.
They are just 動物.
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