Owning the Peeps (floofinition) – A strategy among animals that focuses on being sweet or humorous in order to control and manipulate humans, or ‘peeps’.
In use: “Owning the peeps by kittens and puppies is often as simple as invoking ‘big eyes’, wherein the animal presents a wide-eyed look of innocence when they’re caught doing something wrong.”
Michael Seidel, writer 
I’ve been owned all my life, and happily so! Admittedly, I am a slave to a big-eyed stare that begs to be petted, fed, or snuggled.
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I am definitely owned by “little mush”, which is what we call Atlas when he mushes his snout against the corner of the table and gives us big sad eyes to get table scraps!
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LOL – I can so see that. Cheers
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