Color me dumbfounded. (It's a shade of purple, for those of you who don't know.)
Upon becoming a pet owner, I am both fascinated and disturbed that I have been referred to as a "cat mommy." Not only have my friends referred to me as a parent, but so has the veterinarian. She of all people should understand that I am NOT a parent.
I admit, I think of animals as people to a certain extent. But as a child-parent relationship?
I can see how it's easy to consider oneself a caregiver, but I refuse to consider myself a mother to Moses. I won't do it. I will only concede that I am his legal guardian.
Perhaps it's because upon adopting him, I realized having children (you know, the human variety) is way scarier than I originally thought.
Can someone explain this pet/parent phenomenon (preferably by starting each word of the explanation with the letter "p.")? Truly, I do not understand it.
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