Good choice. You should probably not have kids anyway.
Re:Parenting and Panic
by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:45PM
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I’ve got one of those too.
Re:Parenting and Panic
by duncancarroll on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:46PM
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Thank you! The comparison of kids being easier than dogs is so misleading I don't even know where to begin.
I didn’t say they were easier, I said that I thought the disruption to a person’s life was a lot more comparable than people think. If you’re footloose and fancy-free without a kid or a dog, both a kid and a dog will require serious lifestyle changes and will take up a ton of your attention. My contention is that people overestimate the responsibility required for kids and underestimate the responsibility required for dogs, or any pets for that matter.
I occasionally leave my two dogs at home, outside, alone, over night.
Their water is on a timer.
Dogs can go days without food.
You can leave a dog at home alone.
Dogs can eat rotting food, including meat.
Dogs can be trained to sit and wait in silence.
You can put dogs in a cage for hours and they just take it and wait.
If I can’t be arsed running with them I get in the car and they run on the footpath beside me for 10k.
If a dog gets to ill or too physically incapable you can take it round to a mates place and shoot it in the head.