https : //www . meaning of . org/petophilia . htmIt could be a "fondness for cooking", or a "predilection for cooked foods"; by the Greek 960; 949; 964; 964; 969; (petoo "to cook, to ripen") 966; 953; 955; 953; 945; (philia "love, affective inclination") , which in some way would even fit into the group of paraphilias. Using a little more imagination we can interpret it as the pleasure of releasing flatulence, and even as the pleasure of practicing fellatio, although the latter are taken more as a joke. Not so the meaning of "obsessive love for pets" which unfortunately is not funny at all. It's an invention of the ( and when it doesn't! ) journalist Jon Katz, who used the Scottish-born English word pet, instead of classical Greek. . . 129300; Well, the Hellenes didn't have much of a pet, but at last I could use 954; 945; 964; 959; 953; 954; 953; 948; 953; 959; (katoikidio) which today is "pet", or up to 950; 969; 945; 961; 953; 959; 957; (zooarion "little animal") , although it looks more for microbes. See fart, pete, zoophilia, bestiality, pedophilia, cynophilia, ailurophilia.