[from occupied ga]

I get it, you don’t like dogs.

I neither like nor dislike dogs. I had one as a pet for years and I've had thit cho. It's the wacky owners that act as though their dogs were people that I dislike.

I’d rather my 14-year-old satisfy her “motherly instinct” with a puppy than to think she needs a baby sooner.

I will charitably not pick this up and run with it other than to say my daughter passed the teen years without either a dog or the need for a baby and somehow learned responsibility without having a pet unless you count raising zebra fish to sell to pet stores when she was 7.

[who knows what evil?]

Zebra fish rock...

[netmilsmom]

>>I will charitably not pick this up and run with it other than to say my daughter <<

And that is YOUR daughter.
Mine is different. They are all different. I feel no need to deny her a pet and use that pet to teach responsibility.

It’s why you raise your kids the way you want, and I raise mine the way I want. Both should turn out fine because we are both doing things right for our own children.