Pets are not people. All you “pet parents” who compare caring for your “fur babies” to raising kids need a big dose of reality.I know the anxiety of my indoor only cat sneaking outside and going missing for several hours. It sucks. But on absolutely no level can you compare it to your child going missing. I damn near have a heart attack if I am out in public and lose site of my kid for even a half a second.
Pets are wonderful. They (usually) are good for our health and make loving companions. They deserve to be treated with respect and even love. But they are not kids.
I can’t just leave bowls of food and water on the kitchen floor and call my kid fed. I can’t just open the back door when she needs to crap and let her pick a spot on the lawn.
I’ve never owned a pet that needed me to nurse it around the clock, threw massive temper tantrums or asked me five million questions during a simple reading of Three Little Pigs.
You don’t have to worry about your teenage pet staying out too late, drinking, doing drugs, having sex and being tempted by God knows what else. You cannot spay or neuter your kids. Instead you actually have to teach them anatomy, decency and that they can’t hump everything in sight.
If you need to run to the store for eggs in the middle of winter you can leave you cat at home. Try doing that with a young kid and let me know how that works out for you.
Pets are cheap. Shots once in a while, some good quality food, a few toys and accessories and you are pretty much set. You don’t need to clothe them, send them to dance lessons, hockey practice, daycare, and, oh yeah, college. I’ve never had a pet that cost me half of my paycheck every month.
Adopting a pet is easy. Just about anyone can do it and at anytime. Adopting a child is an excruciating long process that can literally take years, that’s if it happens at all.
Having a pet is not good practice for having a kid. That sentiment is just ridiculous. You cannot compare the joy and the heartache of being a parent to caring for an animal. It just doesn’t work that way. You don’t raise a pet the way you raise a child. Yes you want a well mannered and even somewhat social animal and that take a little bit of work but it generally doesn’t take 18 years plus to accomplish.
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Oh this made me laugh!!! Thanks 🙂
BAHAHA. Great stuff!
hahahaha, spot on.
Why do you care. I thought of my pets as kids before I had kids. Sometimes people can’t have kids and you are basically saying that they will never be fulfilled the same way because of that. If they want to pretend a dog is a kid let them and shut up. You sound like such a jerk in this article.
Oh here we go. As one who has built my family through adoption, I get super pissed when someone compares the
2 year long paperwork life scrutinizing nightmare we endured to adopting their pet. Not the same thing.
I am an animal lover and the recent death of our cat messed me up bad. But pet moms…no, just not the same.