Pets vs. Kids

Everyone always jokes about how having pets is like a test drive for having kids. They do, after all, share many similarities:

• You have to pick up after them
• They sometimes ignore your attempts at discipline
• They eat you out of house and home
• They are expensive
• They follow you around and beg for snacks
• They wake up too early and too often
• They are sometimes destructive
• They sometimes have disabilities that change your lives
• You can no longer just go on vacation alone without hiring a babysitter
• If you have multiple kids/pets they will fight with each other
• They don't communicate on your same adult level
• They have to be potty trained, but even when they are you aren't free: you still have to take them to the bathroom and clean up after them.
• They eat things they aren't supposed to
• They want your attention at inconvenient times
• They pester you to play all. the. time.
  

If you have pets and you can't deal with the above items, then you probably won't enjoy having children either. On the other hand, when your dog comes up to you with a big sloppy kiss, plops his head in your lap and looks at you with those unconditional love puppy dog eyes, it kind of makes all the bad parts fade away. I imagine this is how it must be with having kids. They drive you bananas and melt your heart simultaneously.

That being said, I'm sticking with my fur babies for now.