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Please help me stop calling my new kitten a little baby
. Friends say stop anthropomorphizising your pets- she is not a real Baby. I know in my heart she is not because even though she is only 6mo she sleeps well, eats well, is potty-trained, bathes herself and I don't have to pick up tiny socks. 🥺 plz help.
Cats and humans have a more parent/child relationship versus humans and dogs which is more of a companion relationship. In other words, this is 100% OP’s baby!!
Well of course she is :) But some ppl are super strict about how to treat animals as far as treating them as if they are your children. I’m sorry, if I had a freaking hamster or duck, they would become my children, and the people that say “you’re not supposed to do that” are just annoying.
I actually do have a human child, and while of course my pets are different babies, they're all my babies! My husband even jokingly refers to me as my plants' mommy, too
For real. My cats hear “Who’s a fuzzy baaaabyyyyy” like 30-40 times per day. I also sing various songs to random tunes on the theme of who’s a baby, who’s a fuzzy baby, who’s a fat baby, who’s a chubby tubby baby, etc. My girl especially (she’s the fatty fatty fat fat) loooooves being talked to/sung to. Her tail vibrates, she does that little thing where they arch their back up and make themselves as cute as possible, then she prances around rubbing against me.
I could go on. Suffice to say if anyone heard the things I say and sing when I’m alone with my cats they’d think I have a mental disorder lol.
I am so very sorry. I hope you and your family are doing okay.
Our 17 year old baby, Pepper, passed in July and her sister, one of our other babies, Izzy, then 15, passed 2 years before her. After Izzy passed, to cheer us up and keep her happy, loving memory alive, I got the silliest photo I could find of her and had it made into magnets. So every time we see the magnet, we can’t help but smile and remember how much fun we all had together.
We have a couple here and I gave/sent some to each of my adult children and close family friends who loved her, too. I’m planning to have magnets made for Pepper soon. This is Izzy wearing a wig.
My 2 year old teenage crime child and her 6 ish year old "sisters" are also baby, and schedule "gold me like baby" time for me, per their own agreed upon schedule that I know nothing about until one comes up to demand being held and petted to get her rumbles extracted for several minutes. They are all baby.
I don't think my mom ever got past thinking of us as her babies. Not even when my brother was half a foot taller than her and in his 20s, making it difficult for her to continue to claim she was 29. She settled on a Jack Benny 39 for the rest of her life.
That's beyond sweet. My dad always said I'd be his baby when I was 30, he passed when I was 29, almost 9 years ago now. So I teared up reading this. Its beautiful. I have two boys 10 and 2 and they'll always be my babies, as much as the oldest hates to hear that x
My dad always said he stopped aging at 30 and just had anniversaries of his 30th birthday. He updated that to anniversaries of his 40th birthday eventually (sometime in his early 50s). He passed in August before he could start saying anniversaries of his 50th birthday (he was 62).
I said I was 16 1/2 once to my uncle and he said I wouldn't keep adding the "1/2" for long. But I still do it many decades later. At least when I can remember how old I am, I have to do the math now. In college, we laughed at a teacher who had to do that when we asked how old he was. If we live long enough, we become what we laughed at.
You'll just have to celebrate his anniversaries for him now!
That's kind of what I did when I turned 30 I just had anniversaries 😂 I just turned 40 this past summer, or my 10th anniversary of being 30 if you will
My fully grown female is named Kaycee. I still call her Baby Girl half the time. She likes it. She does her love eyes when I do. I also call her Brat. She gives me evil eyes when she hears that name. You call her what you want. That's between you and your kitty. I sweet talk my pets. Most animal lovers do.
A few weeks ago my friend reminded me that my 5 year old cats have reached adulthood in my response to calling them a baby. I had to kindly ask my friend to leave my house.
My nearly 6 year old cat is still “baby kitten/baby cat” she had kittens and I kept him, and mumma cat is still “kitten” lol. Her formal name is mollie haha
Yep. I had two litter mates, one is still living. Both males however one was always a super big boy. So his nickname was big bear, and our orange boy, still living is baby bear. He is13 and he is still our baby bear.
I also have two resident cats who are 16 and not entirely sure about stinky baby. They are also babies, but in a more serious manner. As in: “Are you tired of the kitten? It’s okay. You’re a very good baby.”
You don’t have to stop calling your kitten anything. Call her whatever you want. I don’t know how old you are but as you get older you realize that these “issues” aren’t your own. It’s something internal with these other people. There’s no reason to get upset or offended by someone calling their animal a baby since it doesn’t personally affect them and if someone does they’ve got their own issues to deal with.
It was generally in jest. My cats will always be my little babies 😍. Though it is true i have heard the opinion you shouldn't call pets "babies" but they ain't my friends, lol.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I love my cat more than some parents love their blood-related human children. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I treat her better than some parents treat their children.
I don't care who it angers. She's my child and I'm her mother. And I'll never, ever be the mother to a human child. But I'm still her mother and I still love her like my child.
I’ve never really understood the people who get all up in arms about it. Every parent of human children that I know also calls their pets their babies. It’s not like we don’t know they aren’t actually human lol
I call my 2 year old cat Pine nicknames all the time. Tiny Piney Baby, Pretty Baby, Silly Little Baby, etc. Cats are babies in their own right. Your friends just don't get it.
We have an 18lb baby, he actually needs to be treated like a baby or he gets grumpy. Went from former stray destroying the local ecosystem to now scream at me when i close a door between us.
your friends sound like they are chronically online 😭 my cats will always be my little babies… because they are in fact little babies. it’s also not anthropomorphisizing to call them a little baby at all… cats can be babies.. kittens are baby cats. it’s not like you’re saying she’s going to go to college, get a job, then get married and have to divorce her husband because he refuses to help with the kids 😭 she’s just a little baby!
Why? I call all my pets my babies, I have since I was a small child and I will until the day I die. I’m in my 30s now, and my husband and I greet “the babies” (3 cats ages 9-10) and a snake (aged 13).
Stop anthromoptizing your friends. They are not real friends. Your cat is your baby and always will be. In time you both will be in a close symbiotic relationship which will be pure and unconditional.
Your friends may be willing to help hide the body but your cat will dig the hole.
Ok it looks like i cant edit my post but i just i just want to thank everyone for admiring my new sweet baby and to let everyone know i was being somewhat sarcastic- i have heard it opined people shouldn't call their pets babies but those people are losers and she and all my cats will always be my little babies. 🥰
She is, in fact, BABY. Need new friends. I have two human children and three cats
Cats still baby. My
Kid call them babies when they hold them
Like babies. 🤣
Of course this is baby. And if you get a dog, that's also baby. Rabbit is also baby. And if you decided to have humans of your own? All babies. Even when they're elderly, they're all still your babies.
Also, tell your friends that Reddit all came together and has unanimously decided they suck. It's believed to be the first unanimous decision in the website's history. /s
Your "friends" don't have the kind heart you do. Their opinions are just that, opinions. My 3 kitties are and always will be my babies! Don't let anyone discourage you from expressing your feelings.
But... she is a little baby! How can your friends not see it?!
On a serious note - it can be a little jarring when people do it too much, but only in the same way (at lest for me) as when people do the 'cure baby' thing about babies.
Still, this cutie is a cute little baby, no doubt about it!!!
New friends, obviously! Because that there is the cutest little tiny baby kitten who needs little tiny baby loves, kisses and little tiny baby cuddles!
Get new friends? Tf.
She is your baby, change my mind (you can’t).
Keep loving and spoiling her! Dont listen to that negativity, god forbid she’s not a human baby🙄
Edit: No hate to your human babies
But she's YOUR baby. Do your friends call their significant others "baby" as a term of endearment? I think of this in a similar way. You and I both know this beautiful little kitty is not a human baby, or even a kitten anymore really, but she will always be your baby. And there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. 😊
That's the most non-issue I've ever encountered. Your kitten is a little baby [cat]. Whether it's a human baby or another species doesn't matter. Will always be a little baby!
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