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Yes I agree. Lately, there is a fairly disturbing tendency to consider and treat pets as surrogates for children or humans in general. This type of pet owner is always quite pathetic and is a form of cope, imho: the eternal refrain animals are better than people simply means that a) you have not learned to manage human relationships b) it is a comparison devoid of any bases and frankly it is yet another symptom of a modern world that has lost the sense of nature
Agreed - humans are social animals. We need a ‘pack’ of other humans to really thrive, mentally.
That being said, my pup really improved my mental health during Covid. By dumb bad luck, I arranged a move right when we went into quarantine. I was in a new place and completely isolated. I work in healthcare, which was particularly exhausting and depressing at that time. Looking back, I was profoundly depressed, but the one thing that would drag me off the couch on my days off was my dog. I researched less busy hiking trails, and found some hidden gems to share with new friends when things opened back up. It’s my only really happy bit of memories for that year.
Pets aren’t a replacement for human companionship, but they’re a fantastic supplement.
Unless the dog is deaf he can still hear you, dipshit. Plus dogs are highly keyed into human emotions and social cues, they know you're upset before you do probably. They will listen to you vent, and they will do shit to help you too, like cuddle up with you or bring you toys. As a bonus, they'll never share your secrets or betray your trust in a moment of weakness or anger, they'll just support you unconditionally.
You're right that they aren't a substitute for healthy relationships with other people, but you don't have to make up bullshit.
I've seen it go both ways on this. You see a lot of 30+ yo chicks with like 5 cats that she refers to as her children, but you also see a lot of people who have one or two pets that they just kind of enjoy having the company of. Personally, I'd recommend at least getting a dog because even a small dog acts as a pretty good nigger alarm and there's a good chance that, that is going to be something of great value in the next few years.
Unless the dog is deaf he can still hear you, dipshit. Plus dogs are highly keyed into human emotions and social cues, they know you're upset before you do probably. They will listen to you vent, and they will do shit to help you too, like cuddle up with you or bring you toys. As a bonus, they'll never share your secrets or betray your trust in a moment of weakness or anger, they'll just support you unconditionally.
You're right that they aren't a substitute for healthy relationships with other people, but you don't have to make up bullshit.
I didn't read your long post but i agree that people get pets for the sake of getting pets with no idea or interest in taking care of them which leads to neglected animals.
The vast majority of people are growing increasingly bitter and narcissistic, which brings with itself inexorable negative fixations against all sorts of things, most prominently against other human beings. They have too much hostility against people to form lasting, meaningful relationships, and keeping pets is their primary substitute for this. Pets have a lot less abstract intelligence than humans and generally have a child-like, submissive nature, and are therefore much easier to control, abuse and neglect.
I might have to disagree with your assessment that it's a behavior that "the vast majority" increasingly have, but it is a behavior at least a good portion of people have, especially in the developed world were jobs foster a competitive environment that enable an antisocial attitude to one another, but that's kind of always been the case as far as civilizations go.
You do have a media that increasingly tends to foster a misanthropic view of other people (though at times justified). Watching the news or the latest blue/grey filtered streaming show about assholes can have a neurotic view of others like that.
That said, I can see why a lot of people turn to pets.
I live rural, not many people around but my dog is always there to keep my disabled butt moving, helps out with fetching and guards the house / kills unwelcome critters. I choose my dog (mastiff) over most humans any day.
It's true that the current Pet culture is a symptom of a alienating modern world.
Animals don't talk back and it's easy to make them happy (or lie to yourself that they are happy)
So they are a good substitute to human companionship for narcissistic people. Humans are complicated and often shitty but when you put pets over humans you are a lolcow.
It's okay to have a pet and care for it. It has been proven to be sometimes helpful with depression, anxiety, recovering... but it's true that Pet culture in the US is exceptionnally r3t@rd3d and complelty unsustainable. People simply have too much pets, they don't discipline them enough, they don't care for them properly, and they allocate them too much resources (fucking dumbasses with their 5000$ designer Cats)
I am also flabbergasted at the number of people who have a pet that they can't care for. They work all the time and the dog sitter does all the work.
I also knew people
that were too lazy to throw away the trash everyday so they had a big bag of weeks old cat shit in their bathroom (they were not fat from their jobs). Or they couldn't bother walking them so they let their dogs shit on the balcony. Or in the pool. Or their room smelled like cat piss and cat food all the time.
I want to gag thinking about it.
I also think that Pets are a poor substitute for a true connection with Nature and the Wild World. They worship their pets but can't name the birds or the trees in their yards. They are illiterate when it comes to the Natural world. They can't be bother to participate in conservations effort for wild species. Pets are one thing but you don't "love animals" if you only loves the ones who can live in your house and depends on you for their wellbeing. You love that they depends on you and are easily accessible, but it's something else from loving "animals".
Tl;dr The pet frenzy is a symptom, a lot of people are longing for a connection to other peoples and to the Natural World. Pets are splenda for something more meaningful and challenging. Go outside. Make friends. Do some birdwatching.
I would argue that pitbulls are worse honestly. I’ve seen way too many videos of seemingly normal pitbulls going ballistic for no reason and mauling their owners beyond recognition. They are one of if not the most needlessly aggressive animal I’ve ever seen, I mean even hippos and otters aren’t that evil and otters are necrophiliacs by choice.
I've known lots of people with pitbulls, there's never been any problems with them. German shepherds though, every single person I know that's been bitten by a dog, including myself, it's been by a german Shepherd. Those dogs are so fucking inbred and schizo.
I don't get dog worship or the people who dress their dog like a circus clown, who are fucking obsessed with them, and cum on their pants and pet random dogs they see on the streets. People say it's the fault of their owners and dogs are never responsible but then claim dogs are some highly intelligent beings. Fuck dogs. The only time I met a dog that wasn't a dipshit was a dog used to being on an island who was really friendly, and I still didn't exactly adore him.
Maybe the way I've been raised is fucked up but we dislike dogs and love cats, and we still treat them like animals that fuck up a lot. People who can't even move a pooch out of their laps because "oh noooo mr doodoo is asleep and he will get upset ;;(" are bizarre. Just move it, it's an animal and it'll forget that shit literally not even three minutes later.
I've known lots of people with pitbulls, there's never been any problems with them. German shepherds though, every single person I know that's been bitten by a dog, including myself, it's been by a german Shepherd. Those dogs are so fucking inbred and schizo.
