• @[email protected]
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      People who get creeped out by what other people choose to refer to themselves as creep me out.

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        I like to think of pets as my friends, but deep down I can’t help but feel they are my prisoners. I don’t have pets anymore.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen
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          101 year ago

          Maybe you did have prisoners then. We couldn’t force our dogs to run away if we wanted to. If we leave the back gate open and go inside, they just wait by the back door. If we leave the front door open, they just stand there and watch the world. If they ever lose track of us at a park, they go crazy and start running all around everywhere looking for us. Basically dogs that are part of your family know where they want to be, and it’s with your family.

    • @cm0002
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      Or when referred to as “fur babies” “fur son” “fur child” it’s weird. I don’t know what’s wrong with just saying pet, it’s the proper classification for their position in a family hierarchy

      • Altima NEO
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        31 year ago

        I don’t mind the parent thing, but fur babies just makes me think of furry cosplayers in diapers, which is a thing.

      • @Geek_King
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        Those terms are absolutely rampant on dating apps. It creeps me out too.

      • @Bonskreeskreeskree
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        Who decided it was the proper term? Some all mighty beings or humans of the past just using language to define things?

        Edit: yall downvoting without responding are hilarious. People make up words and language changes all the time. Here yall are butt hurt about how people chose to refer to things.

        • @[email protected]
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          Here yall are butt hurt about how people chose to refer to things.

          Here yall are butt hurt about how people chose to downvote.

    • @HeapOfDogs
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      I understand the sentiment, but when I hear those words I just hear love. Maybe a different love than I feel but still love.

    • QuinceDaPence
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      I blame the places that say you’re “adopting” the animal.

      No. Legally they are property, I’m giving you currency in exchange for personal property. Doesn’t matter how you have to word it for legal purposes, I’m buying it from you.

      • @wreckedcarzz
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        Imagine calling living beings “property”. Your boss should also refer to you as their “property”, as they exchange money to own you for a portion of your life.

        You’re adopting, or you are a piece of shit. Can’t have it any other way. Next you’ll be like “well we used to own slaves and I don’t see why that went out of style”.

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        No. Legally they are property

        According to which laws, exactly? My country has animal wellbeing laws that classify pets as companions and living beings, their legal status is explicitly above personal property.

        • QuinceDaPence
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          Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R.R. Co

          1897 U.S. Supreme Court holding that dogs are personal property. This has since been the prevailing law throughout the U.S.