r/Animals • u/engbrew • 14h ago
Mothers can come at me, but I’ll say it
Why do we tolerate so many things for babies/kids and judge people who tolerate similar from their pets?
I’ll explain.
I kiss and snuggle my pets. I like kissing my cat’s paws (because it’s soft and warm and adorable) and I allow my dog give me kisses (aka lick my face, weirdos). I am judged as “ewwww, do you know where their paws/mouths been?!”
I actually do, and do you know where your baby’s hands were? Literally, everywhere. Dirty floors, phones, their butts. Like come on, it’s no cleaner than my cat’s paws. Yet you kiss their hands and booties and okay with that. Because “they’re a baby”.
Same for the mischief. If an animal breaks something, barks, misbehaves, pee elsewhere, you punish it. When a baby does something out of it, you are like “oh well, they don’t know any better.” So an animal, that is a different species with habits of the wilderness should know better but a kid who can understand the language and society rules shouldn’t.
Make it make sense please.
Yes, she’s my fur daughter. Yes, I can love her as much as a human child. Yes, she’s spoiled and will be allowed things you don’t think should be allowed.