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out_of_touch

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,686
You did not give birth to that pupper. You are not that pupper's mom/dad.

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CrazyAndy

Self-requested ban
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
4,071
I don't care for that trend either but you actually don't have to give birth to someone to be their parent.
 

Papercuts

Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,129
Most people would consider an adoptive children's caretakers to be their parents.
 
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out_of_touch

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,686

Cenauru

Dragon Girl Supremacy
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,101
If it's twitter, it's usually a 50/50 chance that they're a sockpuppet account trying to pretend to be normal
 

Jakke_Koala

Member
Sep 28, 2018
1,173
It's just for lonely people to show other people they are lonely, without saying they're lonely.
Just let them do what they do
 

Deleted member 10193

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,127
If you buy a child or take one in off the street, have him castrated and make him do tricks for your entertainment, then 'parent' is not the word most people would apply.
I adopted my cat from a charity, she has her own bed, I feed her 'gourmet' cat food. I don't expect anything from her and I don't try and force her to do anything she doesn't want to do. I wouldn't call myself a cat dad but I'd die for my cat. Why does that mean I should be ridiculed?
 

Lord Fagan

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
2,367
Era has a serious, chronic problem with threads that beg to be ignored, and you are not helping, OP.
 

Westbahnhof

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
10,118
Austria
"Recent"? I've heard (and read,online) that stuff since I was a child. I'm 30 years old.

Also, ignoring all the joking potential and light heartedness of the thread, I reaaaaaally dislike OPs phrasing and reasoning.
I know a few people who didn't give birth to their kids, and while this is very different, the line "You didn't give birth, you're not their parent"... idk bout that man
 

Muffin

Member
Oct 26, 2017
10,346
Why the hell do you care? How does this affect you negatively?

Let people feel about their pets how they want to. You dont need to "correct" them.
 
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out_of_touch

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,686
Why the hell do you care? How does this affect you negatively?

Let people feel about their pets how they want to. You dont need to "correct" them.
It's selfish and doesn't take their pets feelings into consideration. Pets may or may not approve of humans calling themselves pet parents, but we'll never know because pets can't talk.