[marktwain]

“These days, I see some (unmarried) young women walking with dogs in strollers and saying they are their moms. Did they give birth to those dogs? They are really crazy,” he said.

It is a trend I find creepy.

Women and Men calling animals their children.

It was always known pets were some women's child substitute; but calling animals children is creepy.

[kearnyirish2]

The term is “fur babies”, and they cost a lot less than real children (in both money and emotional investment). When they get sick, you put them down; can’t do that with real children.

The freaks putting dogs in strollers/dressing them in clothes are just another segment here to whom I could never relate.

When a woman cohabitating with a man gets a dog, she may as well get a hysterectomy; she’s accepted her lot as a “dog parent”.