Now your moment of insensitivity

[featherynscale]

Note: Despite what I am about to say, I love dogs. Mostly all dogs, even small yippy dogs that attack your ankles for no reason other than sheer doggie spite, and giant drooly dogs that insist upon licking you in the face and nearly drowning you.

*BUT*
I hate it when people refer to their dogs as "furbabies" or "furchildren". They are dogs. They are not midgets in fuzzy suits. Midget in fuzzy suit = Ewok, and I think we all know the difference there, which is spears and other primitive weaponry.

Which brings me to my next point: The Rainbow Bridge. While I appreciate the impulse to assign your pet a happy afterlife, seriously, kids, that one's taken. Every time I hear about the doggies and kitties going to the Rainbow Bridge, I think of Heimdall, up there, chasing your dead shih tzu away from the foot of Bifrost, where she's just piddled and washed some of the color off. Yep. Heimdall the Guardian, riding herd over a billion pampered and inbred showdogs, while the giants chip away. Showdogs = Ragnarok. I've always said so.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

What's even more irksome than people referring to their pets as children is people treating their pets as children - and doing a piss-poor job of it.

I swear to Moloch, if any child was raised the way these people raise their "furbabies" - *cough* *choke* *snarl* - that child would grow into the most obnoxious, spoiled, offensively neurotic dipshit you could imagine.

Don't get me started.

Yes!

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

I had a coworker years ago try to equate having her dog with my having children. My response to that was, "If I left my children home alone with nothing but a bowl of dry food and a bowl of water, I'd be arrested for neglect. Don't ever try to equate your dog with my children ever again."
Admittedly, she did treat this dog as if it were her child. I've heard that she's actually had a child since then. It makes me wonder if she ever remembers that statement and cringes now...

Re: Yes!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

You've got a point. However, I have found it very useful to describe toddler behavior to friendly, non-breeding babysitters as something like "puppies with thumbs."

Nature vs. nurture?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

that child would grow into the most obnoxious, spoiled, offensively neurotic dipshit you could imagine

And lo, most of the furbabies do.