Dogs

Also quite a quest to learn to speak a dog to make that call.

And they lie for fake points. Weird.

Advertisers are a bitch

Self censorship?

Did I not read Fuck and Shit in the dog tag?

Fun fact: every dog have, in fact, a real mom that's actually a dog and their separation was most likely non consensual.

Yes

It's also off-putting when veterinary staff do it. I get that it's easier than remembering the human client's name, but I'm not my dog's mom, for several reasons:

1. I'm not a woman. Y'all are just misgendering me.
2. He's a son of a bitch, not a human
3. If he was the son of a human, that human was my grandma. I took him in after her death. That makes him my half-uncle.

Do you also feel uncomfortable when people use the words adopt and foster when it comes to pets? They're also child-related words but I feel like those aren't as controversial to people.

I prefer it to “owner”

I adopted my cat in her old age. She's...someteen years old. I don't actually know, her known history starts when she, an adult cat, followed my cousin's dog in through the dog door and demanded tuna. Like 13 years later my cousin passed away and I had room for her now ownerless cat.

I did no parenting to this cat. I am more a pillow than a parent to Izzy. I am her caretaker, she is dependent on me for her food, water and safety, but she isn't a child, and I didn't raise her.

It is weird for the traditional view of pets as property, beasts of labour, ornaments, or other living in-person. However recent decades has seen a popular shift towards treating select sentient animals (experience emotions) with some degree of sapience (reasoning/higher cognition), like cats and dogs, as people. Humans treat them as individual persons with their own subjective experience, desires, and lives worth living.

So when a human adopts a non-human animal under this view, they are also taking on the responsibility to care for the animal's needs and we'll-being, not just for what the animal provides the human (as would be the case of a beast of burden) but primarily for the sake of the animal's own worthwhile life--the human takes on a guardianship/parental role. This is why people are more and more being referred to as mom/dad/parent of their pet. More and more people are adopting animals as non-human children. Vets like to enforce it because it reduces animal cruelty and makes people more likely to do basic care.

This isn't to say many farmers don't try to give their animals a good life or recognize them as feeling beings with their own personality. They do, but not to the same degree as treating a pet as a non-human child.

I always find it really off-putting.

No, it's weird.

Until you have pets who care.

...whistle?

I just wonder who does it. The poster? Is it because of moral reasons? Is it because they want to profit off this shitty meme and are smart enough to know they cant monetize it? Are they originally posting on some forum with strict curse word rules? Is it an automated system that does it? Is it ragebait? I have so many questions regarding this practice.

I think its reposters, fishing for memes and cleaning them up to fill up a shitty facebook group that they then monetize. People then pick it up from them and post here.

Oh boy it’s that time again!

There’s too many mother uckers, ucking with my shi.

Because OP (not here) wants to get the post exposed and swear words are not advertiser friendly which will get it deprioritized from the algorithm

That censorship was so shit I had to zoom in to notice lol