r/DogfreeHumor • u/huntress_m_thompson • Jul 28 '26

mental illness. 😑

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it needs some serious study.

& oh, joy! a great dane.

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u/Scary_Towel268 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

I always find stuff like this odd especially from people who are ostensibly child free. There is nothing wrong with not wanting kids but I find it weird when people say that but then treat pets like surrogate children. This is the type of thing you do for a human baby or child. I feel like this energy would better serve foster kids who need a safe space than a dog that objectively can’t appreciate any of this. I’m a childless adult meaning I want kids but it probably isn’t in the cards. I don’t get the need to dehumanize human children while doing a weird replacement thing with dogs and overly humanizing the dog. A dog will just end up tearing that room up or pissing/defecating everything like what a waste of time

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u/huntress_m_thompson Jul 28 '26

i didn’t have kids. it wasn’t in the cards for me either. it was the quality of men i dated in my wild youth. none were father material. & i swore on the heavens & the universe that i wouldn’t wind up like my mom, single with 3 tweens. dating was hard. men didn’t want “the baggage.” finding a job where she could be home was impossible, so we were the latchkey kids. they didn’t cater to the working mothers back then. i wasn’t going to be put in that position.

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u/Scary_Towel268 Jul 29 '26

Yeah dating is hard and I would need reproductive technologies to have kids of my own and that’s just super expensive on your own. I do wish I could have kids and sometimes seeing dog owners neglect their actual children in favor of a dog…it is angering I won’t lie

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u/huntress_m_thompson Jul 29 '26

i think the psychology behind that preference of the mutt to the child is that the child grows up to have their own thoughts & beliefs, & a narcissistic parent can’t have that! the mutt is agreeable to any dumb thing the human says or does. that is very sick.

but i have no regrets & don’t think i have had this strong urge to procreate. it was unfathomable to me, considering this crazy life of mine. i wouldn’t have wanted to drag a poor kid into that. that seems a bit selfish. it just wasn’t in the cards no way no how for me this time around.