Am I the only person in the whole wide world?

[gritsar]

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Ok, how long before you would give her a kiss?

I always make the dogs wait when I find them turd munching - no kisses for a while.

What?!? You don't immediately wash their mouths out with listerine? (Has considered it, fortunately dogs aren't kitty crunchy munchers).

 

[gryeyes]

My friends and I called that "Doggie Almond Roca." Whenever we saw kitty litter bits stuck to a slobbery muzzle, we KNEW what they'd been up to.

And it is the reason I bought an automatic litter box! If the dog didn't get into the litter box within 10 minutes of a cat having used it, the temptations were swept away to the collection bin. Wonderful invention!

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Luckily no kitties here - at least that are in the house - we do have mystery kitty prints that show up in the snow (so I guess they could be hunting roca when outside

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But ours do have "favorites" - goose is prefered slightly frozen, chicken/duck they like the next day and road apples - any time

 

[Orchid]

I like my own two kids. The rest I take on a case-by-case basis, and in most cases - I don't like them. There are a few notable exceptions, though.

I never. EVER. Volunteer to babysit. Not sure what kind of grandma I might make someday...probably the kind who doesn't like their grandkids until they're 10 or so.

 

[gritsar]

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Funny how we started out talking about human kids and then moved on to what our furry kids get into. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[SilverPhoenix]

I must confess to not reading the whole thread yet.

(But don't worry, I will!)

But on OP's topic, I really don't care for children myself--especially babies, and the thought of pregnancy freaks me out to no end! I know for a fact that I will never have children. I would bet a heap of money on it if I had a heap of money to bet. I just don't like them, and I have way too many moral issues with humanity to ever want to contribute to our species, and personally feel I have other, "better" (for me) things to do with my life. The whole motherhood package just does not appeal to me at all. I don't mind being around children who are past the toddler stage for short durations of time, but that's it...short durations of time. More than that and I'm planning an escape. I have trouble even being in the same room as infants. They scare me, and I find them creepy like most people would find a very large spider creepy. My hands even sweat THINKING about being in the same room as a baby, much less touching one. It's unusual, and I'm polite about it, but that's just how I am. I've never liked babies in the slightest. No offense intended to anyone of course, but that's just me.

The interesting thing is that my mom is a labor and delivery nurse and loves her job.

Baby non-human animals, on the other hand...

 

[brownlikewoah]

I don't like kids either. My boyfriend and I are still young (23 & 24) and neither of us have plans of kids... They gross me out, the smell of baby poop makes me want to hurl, and I don't know how to interact with them. I also can't get over the cost, I'm too selfish, I like to spend my money on ME!
I like dogs, play with them when you want to, ignore them when you don't want to, leave them at home alone for a few hours and no one can call cps on you haha

 

[pkw]

I love my daughter. She is a good girl (especially for a 16 year old). In 2007 my daughter had the MRSA virus and she was on life support for a week and every day the doctors thought she was going to die and then with all the prayers from us, family, friends and even strangers she pulled thru. It was the worst 2 weeks of my life. I am so thankful to God for letting her live.

When it comes to other peoples kids that is a different story. I don't like most peoples kids.

 

[EweSheep]

I had to laugh thru the whole thread! Great reading! Thought mine was the "worst" kid there was.

Growing up, never wanted to have kids, no maternal instinct at all, not even with animals. Don't get me wrong, I do care for them, give them kisses and hugs and all the superficial ones. Not the kind of hard core, innate kind of thing. Wanted to be a nun. Well that never did happen. Went to college, babysat animals and my recently divorced sister's kids, her two boys.....she had a hard time managing them to be good while I can whip them up to be sweet little boys.

Well the table turned on us, I had my dd when I was 39 years old. That is old to be having kids, mind you and your body does not do things like a 20 year old does. I can not run as fast, get sick as often as my dd does but I still love her to pieces even she drove me up the wall. Man, what a learning curve for me! Doesn't babies every come with instructions?!

As an infant to three years old, she was WONDERFUL baby! Just wonderful, curious about everything about the world around her and oh she loves to eat different kinds of food, experimenting with things. Even she enjoyed playing in the soapy dishwater in the sink, having a ball. Just so precious! I am glad those three years were the best in our lives, even hubby was around but he worked alot so he did'nt see her much.

With other kids, nope, no loving dovey kind of thing like I have for my daughter. I am more tolerant of crying babies, like the low pitch, not the high pitched screams. Then after a five minute listening in, I have to leave or turn off my hearing aid. Kids in their all out temper tantrums, I can not handle it or walk away.

Kudos to people that CHOOSES not to have kids...that is NOT selfish! you are doing us a big favor if you were not ready to have kids. It is not meant to be at that time or never meant to be.

I love Bill Cosby and his Parenthood. Sometimes kids have so much hatred toward learning that they think that knowlege or their brain matter would ooze out of their ears!!!!! And the story line with repeating words sounded like machine guns...."Stop! Stop, stop, stop, stop,stop,stop,stop,stop!" "No, no no no, nononononoNO!" The kid would go "huh?" Sometimes I have to watch his shows to "get me back to earth" and one day I can laugh about it!

Yep, I am selfish by not wanting any more kids. Yep, NO MORE!

 

[pardygwyn]

Can't say I'm big on other peoples' kids. They weird me out and I spend a lot of time wondering when the parent is going to crawl down my throat for some perceived slight. I like mine, though. It surprises people who know me through work or some other non-parental channel to hear that I kiss and hug my boys all the time. I may be a lackadaisical parent and a workaholic to boot, but I do love my boys!

Oh, and babies are pretty much the exception to every rule in my book. Put me in a room with a baby, watch my IQ dissolve into bouncing walks and lilting babytalk. Babies up to about a year in age can do no wrong in my books. After that, they're someone else's kids.