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I think that is a great one! I am fine with Dog owner.
Defiantly against dog parent same with calling pets fur kids because I do think too many people see dogs as little humans in fur coats. I love my dogs as much as anyone else and they are part of my family, but I cringe when someone asks how are your fur babies or fur kids? They are not my kids they are my dogs and there is nothing wrong with that. People need to start letting dogs be dogs. My dogs are very happy being dogs.
This. The pet parent/furbaby thing is grating.
Around here, though, virtue signalling being the blood sport that it is, they call them their "rescues."
Technically in the bird hunting world there are owners and handlers. Sometimes one is both (like me). So owner is fine. Legally I own them.
There are two cattle dogs on the ranch I hunt on. They have about 2,400 head spread out over 10 or more square miles. In the main shop there is big board that lists all the sections, # of cattle, whose covering them- tasks for the day/week.
The dogs are on the board. I think they consider them 'hands' and not 'owned' necessarily.
Dog owner was fine when I had dogs. Ex-dog-owner now works, too.
I guess you did not know there was a push in Boulder, CO, to call them “guardians” instead of “owners”.
This euphemistic renaming is getting ridiculous. The dog does not license itself, or voluntarily go to the vet, or buy its food, or decide what its schedule is (unless someone abandons it to become a feral...as in dangerous thing that is in limbo between two worlds).
Owners take care to make sure their (their, as in the possessive form) domestic animal is in their human world, fed and sheltered and kept safe both from harm and from causing harm.
But hey, we are now supposed to call homeless people “the unhoused.”
If you bought a dog, and could sell it to someone else if you want to, you are the owner.
Owning an animal is no different in that regard from owning a car or a houseplant.
I love animals and while we no longer have a dog, we have five cats. We love them to death and would never willingly give them up, but when push comes to shove, we are their owners. Not their parents (that makes me cringe). Animals are not children.
Sometimes I own them, other times they own me, I don't care what is PC we just live in reality. In my house we refer to who ever is home that day as the Dog Nanny.
I refer to my dog as my dog- daughter. She's the best!
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I love my dogs as much as anyone else and they are part of my family, but I cringe when someone asks how are your fur babies or fur kids? They are not my kids they are my dogs and there is nothing wrong with that. People need to start letting dogs be dogs. My dogs are very happy being dogs.
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