"Furbaby"

[Wingates_Hellsing]

See that really doesn't bother me. Its when you create some ridiculous cutesy non-word that it irks me. Leave English alone!

lolwut?

I R 73H 1337 PWNZORZ! w/ mah DEAGLE!

I really don't think that's ever going to end. If there's one thing English is perfect for aside from borrowing words, it's making them up.

[Boozy]

See that really doesn't bother me. Its when you create some ridiculous cutesy non-word that it irks me. Leave English alone!

You're right - I lost track of the point of this thread. "Furbaby" sounds very annoying to my ears as well. I never use it.

But that's a personal preference of ours. I don't mind it being added to the English language as slang. It's very descriptive, and there's no other word like it. "Pet" doesn't have the same association.

[smileyeagle1021]

I call my dogs "my babies" and sometimes refer to myself as their "mommy". It's hardly a sign of psychological problems.

I fully understand that they're dogs, I'm human, and they aren't my children. Just because someone frequently uses those terms in a playful manner doesn't mean that they're losing their grip on reality.

And, it's a good analogy for how you care for them (there is a lot of similarity between taking care of a child and a pet)... and for some of us, that is the closest we will get to experiencing raising a child.

[Ghel]

I've heard people say that if you treat your kids like dogs and your dogs like kids you'll have good kids and good dogs. Not having either, I'm not sure if I agree.

I've heard people call their kid's pets "grand-dogs" and "grand-cats." Always in a very tongue-in-cheek sort of way.

[elsporko]

My grandmother told people she had grand-rabbits.

[blas87]

I wonder at which point will a human give birth to kittens or puppies?

[anakhouri]

Well, that Kate lady and the Octomom lady already chose to have litters...

[HYHYBT]

When my brother's wife was almost due to give birth to their first child, my brother dreamed that she *did* have a cat. A full-grown, gray and black striped cat. And that everybody else wondered why he was upset when it was such a beautiful cat. Then it got outside, where there were a bunch of others, and he couldn't tell which cat was his son, and again nobody else seemed to think it mattered.

[Skunkle]

Elsporko has it backwards. "Babyfur" is the term used for members of the furry fandom who're into one of the following: the adult-baby, infantilism and/or diaper fetishes, and/or roleplaying as a baby-aged character. Terms "babyfur" and "cub" are interchangeable in some cases - all babyfurs are cubs, not all cubs are babyfurs. Some but not all of my furry characters are cubs. I'm not a babyfur and I don't have any babyfur characters, my youngest character is 8 and she doesn't wear diapers. People who're babyfurs, you'll see walking on the street and you'll have no idea they *might* be wearing a diaper under their clothes - not all of them actually do that, though, and many who do only do it in private.

"Furbaby" is, yes, a spoiled pet, almost always a cat or a toy-sized dog. If your dog is named Chanel or Armani, and has designer-label clothing or any wearables that have rhinestones and/or cost over $200, you may have a furbaby. If you carry your pet EVERYWHERE, and you CARRY him everywhere, you probably have a furbaby. And if your pet has never heard you talk to him or her in anything but 'baby chatter', you've got a furbaby.

[tropicsgoddess]

*walks away whistling*

I do refer myself as Mommy when it comes to my cat. Guilty!

same here...but for my dog. *ducks*

[telecom_goddess]

The furbaby just wuvs their wittle furbaby?

OH my lord

Well I don't think of my cats as my kids...I HAVE kids. But my boyfriend refers to me as their mom....I don't encourage it to be sure