飼う
かう · kau · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to own
🐈🍚 飼 = 食 food + 司 manage: managing its meals means you keep it
Same sound as 買う (kau, to buy): first you buy a pet, then you keep it. The 食 food radical on the left marks 飼 as a feeding word, so keeping an animal means being in charge of its food.