The Clangers - Dominant enslaving race or inter-dimensional pets?

A cute little show about about 5 little moon mice who enjoy all things musical and discovering new things. An innocent harmless little show from the BBC, or is it?

Now, before I start, I've only experienced the new Clangers show not the one from the 70's, and yes ..... this is another children's show I've put way too much thought into.

The Clangers live on a desolate little moon with a variety of other creatures whose entire reason for existing is to assist in the up-keeping of the Clangers lifestyle.

  
The most obvious of this class system is the soup dragon. It lives in the soup wells of their little planet and and serves the Clangers all of their food. It's clear and present slavery if ever I've seen it. I checked the wiki before writing this to find out if there was a daddy soup dragon to explain where the baby soup dragon came from - it's much worse than I thought - the baby soup dragon was brought in when the original soup dragon became broody and stopped giving the Clangers soup.

Replace him !!!

So when one slave stops preforming, Tiny Clanger proves that the soup dragon could be replaced anytime they want, and now that the soup dragon is back to work it has the responsibility of raising it's future replacement.
It doesn't stop with the soup dragons either, the robot chicken is both their alarm clock and delivery service, the Skymoos are just used as transportation, the list goes on. At the centre of it all is the Clangers, innocent looking, but there must be something threatening about them to have enslaved the other creatures of their world.                                        -OR ARE THEY JUST PETS?-

My other thought of their existence gets a little wibbly wobbly trippy

What if the Clangers are just inter-dimensional pets, like gold fish or hamsters? Think about it - they never go far beyond their little moon - maybe that's the extent of their little universe (or tank). The robot chicken my be just another creature in the tank (like when you have a bristle nose or algae eater fish in a fish tank with the other fish to keep the tank clean),
In this theory the soup dragons wouldn't be the slave race they appear to be, they feed the Clangers, they are the pet owners, and a responsible pet owner feeds their pets.

Maybe the soup wells below the planet aren't a cave but a doorway to the "real world" outside the tank.


Or maybe the soup dragons aren't completely sentient beings themselves, a race with the ability to keep pets in small pocket dimensions may not have bodies that interact with the 3 dimensional world in a way we understand, so the soup dragons may be just a way to feed their pets like a hand inside the tank (or a puppet).  


So the little Clangers might either be enslaving conquerors, or mindless inter-dimensional goldfish, I'm not sure which idea makes the show more fun to watch. Or the other option of just sitting down with bub, removing your brain and just enjoying the show for what it is ..... fun.


                                                            MAT