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Its not my intention to offend or start ww3. So I joined a tortoise forum since my daughter wanted a Hermann's. I've found a disturbing amount of people that call themselves tortoise moms & actual have this (one sided) child type relationship with a reptile. One lady actually said I could not love a living breathing being more than my tortoise. The facebook groups seem to have this same trend...of course usually the animals are in terrible shape & literally being loved to death. Fathers day post the first comment happy fathers day to the ones of the human kind & if the tortoise variety. These people are dead serious
Well they had a dog thread. The same thing was there. Dog mom, furbaby, yadda yadda. Legit treating a dog like a human child. I've also noticed a trend with my bird dogs. Instead of saying hey I have 100acres & I plan on hunting your puppy, titling, etc. They say I'm a wonderful dog mom to 3 dogs & I'm also a cat mom. Of course I reject because they live in a town house & this dog roams 500yrd radius as an instinct. Then they flip like how dare you. Laws are even starting to pop up here like dogs are people almost forcing you to treat your dog like a child or its abuse.
I guess I'm late to the party as usual. Since when did we switch to being parents of animals? I'm legitimately curious. No doubt we have a special bond with our pets, but I feel like we may have crossed a line somewhere with this. Surely am not alone?
Well they had a dog thread. The same thing was there. Dog mom, furbaby, yadda yadda. Legit treating a dog like a human child. I've also noticed a trend with my bird dogs. Instead of saying hey I have 100acres & I plan on hunting your puppy, titling, etc. They say I'm a wonderful dog mom to 3 dogs & I'm also a cat mom. Of course I reject because they live in a town house & this dog roams 500yrd radius as an instinct. Then they flip like how dare you. Laws are even starting to pop up here like dogs are people almost forcing you to treat your dog like a child or its abuse.
I guess I'm late to the party as usual. Since when did we switch to being parents of animals? I'm legitimately curious. No doubt we have a special bond with our pets, but I feel like we may have crossed a line somewhere with this. Surely am not alone?