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Is/Are your pet(s) your friend(s) or your baby(ies)?

Asked by tinyfaery (44082points) August 7th, 2008

Someone once told me people treat their pets in one of 2 different ways: either like a friend, whom they like to hang out with, enjoy their company, etc., or like a baby or a child. I definitely treat my cats like they were my babies. I baby-talk to them, carry them around like babies, they even whine and fuss like babies.

If you have more than one type of pet, do you have different relationships with the different species? Are you more likely to treat one species of pet like a friend and another like a child?

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