You know how I'm really boring and tedious and shit?
Well, I'm going to tell you all that my baby has spent his first day in doggy playschool today, and I'm stupidly excited to go pick him up in a minute. I'd be willing to bet good money they ask us not to bring him back again...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 15 Aug 2011, 15:20, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

It's not that I think you are really boring and tedious and shit
but I do think this whole dog/child displacement thing is a little, y'know, unhealthy.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 15:25, Reply)

I don't think it's really displacement
as I don't ever want to have actual children. It's just that an animal - any animal, really, with the possible exception of a cat - is entirely dependent on you for everything. Literally everything, from safety to food to healthcare. In that respect I think they are quite childlike.

Admittedly it's a bit 'cat lady' to call him my baby, but I don't believe I actually *am* his mummy or anything...

Again, no offence intended, but I don't understand why people who have successfully spawned think they're better than those of us who haven't, or aren't going to.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 15 Aug 2011, 15:30, Reply)

Not yet perhaps...
But it is a slippery slope down to referring to yourself as "Mummy" when you are talking to the animal.
Really though, you appear to have a fairly self-deprecating sense of humour, so I figured you wouldn't cry at my little dig.
And I don't think I am better than anyone, at least not on account of having successfully reproduced.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 15:43, Reply)