Well my cats are like children to me . My fiancé and I don’t have and don’t plan on having children of our own as we both have special needs.
I feed them take. care of them my cats even eat at dinner table with me sometimes
Why is either anyone’s business? Why should someone demand athat nd how can they anyway force anyone to believe as they do about animals?
So sorry about your sister. However, unless your facebook acquaintance set out to deliberately upset your Mum or you, why such a your violent reaction?There are a certain segment of people that do take the pet thing to far. I had an acquaintance lament all over facebook how people with children don’t understand how her dogs were her children and when she had to put her dog to sleep its was just the same as a parent whose child dies.
I thought to myself “Say that to my mother and you may not be left standing.” My sister died at 21 of cancer. The fact is any one that is that over the top will not hear you anyway. A person who actually thinks an animal and a child are equal is unbalanced and really not reachable.
If a friend of mine said that to me about my mother, she would cease to be a friend. Then no one would have known about what she spent on her dog (innocent in all this).
My dog is my baby.
OK. Pets are great and we love them a ton. I agree. And when we lose them it is “heartbreaking” And they can help us. But not everything that eats with us or helps us is our baby. right?
This is the part where we can take things a little too far. You equate losing “human” family members with pets. That is a gross misstatement about what losing a person, is like and what family is. You cannot marry or procreate a pet. You did not come from a pet. It is not a family. Many people use this term as an endearing term. And that is understandable, but you almost seem to mean actual family and assign to them things that are not real.
That is hopefully not the only obvious reason.
I am glad that you have the companionship of an animal. I think God intended that kind of compassion. But it is not your “baby” affectionately, (at least I hope not.) Parental love is much more than what we feel for an animal. Also, your “baby” is engineered to be mortal at a much faster rate than human babies. It is this confusion that can be downright hurtful to someone you may be trying to soothe when they have experienced the unnatural loss of a child.
Still, you recognize the essential difference there is between caring for an innocent animal and training up a child in the Lord.
Parents are not blessed with children in order to give them someone to “baby.”
Not my friend, not my choice to associate with her. I did point out the discrepancy in her attitudes to my wife. Numerous times.
And you do understand that animals have no free will and cannot sin, right? That is why Jesus did not come to save animals, they do not need to be saved. So why even mention the Rosary ??
Animals have no free will and cannot sin and that is why Christ did not come to save them, you do understand that, don’t you? There is no need to be condescending.
We would not marry family members or people who do not have the mental capacity to consent. Adopted children do not come from their adopted parents It is not for anyone to presume to tell anyone how to love a pet or that their pet is not family…
I had a cat go missing several years ago, and a woman from the place I’d bought him from (they found out he was missing because they sent his “foster father” to check up on him after I’d “adopted” him) lectured me on how it was just like my toddler had gone missing and how I was a bad “mom” blah blah blah.Hi everyone,
What would be the right thing to do when a dog owner keeps telling you, directly or indirectly, that her dog is just like your baby. In other words, when you say, for instance, “my baby keeps waking up due to bad dreams and then I have to rock/ feed/soothe him” and you get told back, " I never go to my dog when he cries due to a bad dream, he usually soothes himself".
Do you ignore it?
Do you look back in utter shock?
Do you say pointedly " babies are not the same as pets?
Do you stay silent and let the silly statement remain in the room for everyone to also feel the silliness of it?
What should one do/ say?
Ps: to all pet owners, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against them. I love animals but they have their own place and that is not the same as a baby’s.
Human beings, and human beings alone, are made in the image and likeness of God. I do not see how it is condescending to say so? It is a real difference. Animals do not pray; the Rosary is beyond them. What insult is there in that? Does it insult a mountain to say it is not a star?
I was referring to the manner in which you responded to the poster. I laugh off little barbs like the one you just tried to throw at me… This is an anonymous public forum and it is so easy to write at length to put down others. Please remember that some never come back to post on threads again.
You misunderstand, I wouldn’t be violent -my mother would. Because comparing her daughter to a dog and really meaning it (and trust me I’ve grown up with this acquaintance she really meant it) would cause my mother to go into a rage. Didn’t say it was ok, just said that’s what would happen.
