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, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

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)