Re the “my dog is my child” debate
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Our future child has two aunties (no uncles) and neither of them want kids, so our child will likely have no cousins. Me and my sister have joked that because she has a dog, our kid will at least have a “furry cousin”
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however we both say it fully aware it’s a joke. To her, that dog is her baby because she doesn’t have *actual* babies.., I always find it uncomfortable when people who do have kid(s) put their pets on the same level.
I have a friend who has 4 kids and 3 border collies (she must be mad
![Grimacing face :grimacing: 😬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f62c.png)
![Face with tears of joy :joy: 😂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f602.png)
), she absolutely loves the dogs but of course not as much as her children... any contact between the kids and dogs is heavily supervised, dogs in a separate room if kids are eating, kids know not to approach dogs if they’re eating, sleeping etc. She always says as well that as much as it would destroy her to do it (and obviously you’d hope to god it never happened) if a dog ever showed aggression or turned on a child they would have to go, it’s just not worth the risk!