So, we're not supposed to call pets "pets"?

[Chickengal505]

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THEY DID?!?!?! OH NO!!!!

 

[Gingerlilypad]

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Does that mean if they're not satisfied with the service, they can go elsewhere?

Maybe I don't get it, but isn't being in prison supposed to be a punishment? Heck customers make a choice to go somewhere...should I apply for a multi-million dollar grant to see how many prisoners would be there if they had a choice (other than the whole doing the crime thingie).

 

[Gingerlilypad]

I call all my critters "babies" or "chick chick". For some odd reason my cat Sparky won't respond to "kitty kitty", but when I call "chick chick" he comes running. My dogs I also call stupid, nasty dogs, stinky poos. Of course nasty dogs is after they roll around in the mud by the lake, and stinky poos are after arguing with a skunk.
My guineas think they are chickens, and my chickens think they are supposed to sit on my feet or ride on my scooter with me.
I wonder how my babies would react if I called "companion animals". Probably give me the stink eye.

 

[Judy]

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Now that's even more nuts than the companion animal thing, if that's possible. IMO of course.

 

[maple]

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...but they aren't payin for their stay. ooooh that's just too much.

My "pet" spurred me today... I might have to call him a customer!

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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[sadies chicks]

So I went outside and asked Archie (aka Archibald Major) if he felt degraded when I called him my pet. He just looked at me and continued to eat his tree. Don't think he cares much.....

(partly cause he has NO IDEA what I just said so why would he care what he is called??....)

 

[maple]

...I'm on page 2 but my first thought was... "companion animal" was the term they used for service dogs/animals? Pets is like being owned in my opinion...I own them, I care for them, and I want to own them and care for them...that's why I got them.


A companion is making them equal to you...also my opinion...and Ceasar Milan (The dog whisperer) would say, no, YOU'RE ALPHA...you're the leader of the pack...a companion is a boyfriend or girlfriend...not a pet. bunch of weirdos.

 

[maple]

archie LOVES his tree.

 

[maple]

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All that is old is new again. During the U.S. `Gilded Age' (~1880's) `cultured/sensitive' `persons' felt compelled to refer to Chief Sitting Bull as the `slightly recumbent gentleman cow', the mere mention of chicken `leg' at the `proper' dinner table could cause a woman of a certain breeding to swoon away.

There is a puritanical strain running through our culture that erupts like a boil on left and right depending on the `season', spreading the stink of euphemism hither and yon.

Still combatting the use of `gender' when what is meant is `sex' (gender being the sociocultural construct of aspects and attributes that are associated with one or the other sex but often `borrowed'): end of `not getting past this peer's review' rant

Apologies for getting too heavy with the `petting'

ed:clarity

This is funny...my 9 year old is starting to pick things up and questioned the usage...realizing there are 2 definitions...what the chickens do to make babies and if they are boy or girl chickens once they are hatched. Seems the "gender" thing was called sex during class and she was confused and asked me on the way home from school. I sucked up and explained things better to her...and enforced the, say "mating" if you are refering to the chickens or animals... and try to stay away from using the other word...which by the way made me teary eyed that my baby is growing up and figuring out the chickens are not playing "tag-you're it" any more. sniff sniff ...and also got me to wondering what her school mates are talking about on the playground or wherever they are having the opportunity to discuss things of this nature. hmm...to be a fly on the fort walls....