A domesticated animal is any animal that depends on a human for food, water and shelter; this includes farm animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, goats, dogs and cats.
"Domestic animal shall include any equine or bovine animal, goat, sheep, swine, dog, cat, poultry, or other domesticated beast or bird."
While some people do initially think of pets when they hear the term "domesticated animal," (as do some dictionaries) the definition can expand beyond pets such as cats and dogs.
While raise is used for animals, it is usually in an agricultural setting. You are right to think it sounds unusual to speak of raising a household pet such as a dog or cat. It is much more common for someone to say that they have or that they own a dog. If one raises an animal, or animals, it is almost always for a specific purpose (other than companionship) such as meat production or breeding.
What this says about our use of raise for children, I'm not quite sure.
They are both correct, but the word guess is used in different senses:
1. to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
2. to estimate or conjecture about correctly: to guess what a word means.
The examples given are more enlightening than the definitions; you see that the usage of guess is correct either like this:
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Domestic animal is not "the same" as cattle, but cattle kept and fed by livestock farmers can be considered "domestic."
There's some good info on Wikipedia, and another web site says:
The state of Florida uses this definition:
While some people do initially think of pets when they hear the term "domesticated animal," (as do some dictionaries) the definition can expand beyond pets such as cats and dogs.