Contemporary households are frequently not just multispecies ecologies but also co-habitats and networks of agents of both “natural” and artificial intelligence. It has been frequently noted how pets are constructed as persons (Austin, Irvine 2020) and how people interact with AI assistants (e.g. Alač et al 2021), but much less research has been done on vernacular conceptualizing of non-humans’ interaction without an intermediatory human. However, examination of these relations can contribute to decolonization of anthropology in broader terms that usually presented, giving voice and perspective for non-human actors, both biological and digital, and questioning traditional power relations in families. The paper will present an analysis of narratives about interaction between pets, house plants, and smart household objects (from a robot vacuum cleaner to AI agents like Siri or Alexa) and people, in which all parties exhibit new properties and forms of agency. Based on interviews, ego-documents, digital ethnography and social media listening approach, I’ll consider stable linguistic (Podhovnik 2018) and narrative forms of positioning non-human agents in the network of family connections (e.g., Krylova 2023). I’ll specifically focus on texts about the domestication of technology through the mediation of animals, and formulating new forms of family bonds, ties and hierarchies by introducing non-humans to the family network. I’ll also discuss the role of such texts on social media and face-to-face interaction.