for the most part these people shouldn't be allow NEAR children let alone have them...
Posted on 04/19/2019 8:31:03 AM PDT by Stravinsky
About three months after I’d given birth, I was invited to a recently-befriended mum’s house for a gathering of new parents and babies. As my bleary brain tried desperately to remember each adult’s name, and at least the gender of their corresponding tot, I suddenly realised we were one cooing, spewing infant short of a full set. How odd.
Later, as I happened on the lady I’d identified as childless refilling her mug in the kitchen, I inquired about the “little one”, wholly prepared to praise her willingness to leave him or her with someone else at such a young age. The tiny dote, she explained, was indeed with a neighbour. I gave her an encouraging smile. Then she got out her phone and proudly showed me a snapshot of her bundle of joy, on Instagram, of course. Blinking into the sun from the comfort of his very own swaddle, Buster was the smuggest schnauzer I’d ever seen.
Buster, it turns out, was just over two months old – a true “fur baby” in advanced social media parlance – and his doe-eyed owner assured us that she was just as consumed with sleep training and feeding regimes as we were. It was only when chatter turned to nipple cream, and how it serves wonderfully as lip balm, that her contributions to the conversation dried up.
Buster’s owner is among a growing breed of young people opting for pets over kids as the burden of raising a tiny human is losing its appeal for commitment-phobic, cash-strapped, travel-obsessed or simply career-prioritising millennials. Government data published this week shows that, for the first time since the ONS began collecting data, more women are getting pregnant in their 30s than in their 20s.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
My guy is two now and so far no problems. We had a mini poodle that has seizures now and then but as long as she didn’t fall off the back of the sofa it wasn’t too much of a problem. She was 14 when she crossed the rainbow bridge.
I would have preferred a wire hair or a short coat, but I have a long coat because he needed a home when his first owner married a marine and couldn’t have a dog in base housing.
Bravo Zulu
Then there are “millennials”, like my son and his wife, who for health reasons, cannot have children, and cannot afford to adopt...
Truth!
I can’t really blame the “greatest generation”. For the first time in modern history, ordinary Americans were able to provide suitable housing, education, enough food to be healthy and avoid nutritional deficits, and more than 2 changes of clothing and a single pair of shoes a year, for their kids. Yes, many times they went overboard, but not out of malice -— they thought they were doing the right thing, providing things for their families that they, themselves, could never have dreamt of, growing up.
Yep. And if it comes down to it, which it has; I have taken dogs out to the woods and shot them. Because I love them, and they are dogs.
Yep. And if it comes down to it, which it has; I have taken dogs out to the woods and shot them. Because I love them, and they are dogs.
You my friend, are an asshole.
Oh. Poor baby. Are you gonna be nice and pay a nice sum of money to a vet to put him down for you?
Reach deep down inside, grab your intestinal fortitude, take your dog on a loving last walk or car ride, and do the honorable thing, say a prayer, and put your dog down.
Or are you a coward?
A dog is a dog, not a human.
for the most part these people shouldn't be allow NEAR children let alone have them...
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