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In reality, pets are stolen children - puppies and kittens and other sawed-off little creatures that have been kidnapped from their rightful parents and brought up like human kids. And it almost works for most of us, except for a bizarre deviation of the little creatures. They have hair all over their bodies instead of in the customary locations of human beings. I don’t know about your family, but only a small percentage of the children in our family have ever been overwhelmed by their own hair, and then only during the teenage years. Those real human children have long since fled the nest. So we have dismantled the swing set that was once a child magnet. Today, we live only with imaginary children/Bill Hall, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
Question: What do you think of Bill Hall’s tongue-in-cheek contention that pets become substitute kids for empty nesters?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Frum Helen Back on March 23 at 10:32 a.m.
Tongue-in-cheek? I don’t think so. This is normal living in our house. But I think way down deep, we enjoy our hairy children more than we ever did the two legged ones.
marmitetoasty on March 23 at 11:37 a.m.
Im replacing my lads with a Llama when the last one eventually leaves home :)
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Lynne on March 23 at 11:41 a.m.
Conway,the puglet, is my baby. (And if anyone had told me five years ago that I would be dressing up, talking baby talk and letting a 20 lb ball of fur “surf” the furniture, I would’ve told them to bring a straight jacket at the first sign of such absurd behavior!)
He stole my heart. And then some.