I'm about to catch hell for this one: your relationship with your pet is not the same as a parent's relationship with their child and you cannot use your pet as an example while giving them (often unsolicited) parenting advice.
I *know* I'm gonna lose followers for that, but the number of times someone without chilren actually told me to *spray my toddler with a squirt bottle as discipline because it worked on their cat* was absolutely unreal.
I also had a woman look me in the face and scream, "You will never love your baby as much as I love my cat! NEVER!" when I dared to say that there was a difference between having a pet and having a child in casual party conversation.
