Who(m) do you love?

And while we're on the topic...


(Warning! Someone will get mad at me for saying this, someone who thinks animals are people)


I get it now, why people get rid of their pets when they have a baby.


Not that I'd do it myself, dump my Dave or my Kittenhead just because of Mose, but I do get it.


See, it isn't just that pets are a lot of work, and add stress to a day already filled with nonstop work. It's that there are ways in which pets stand in direct conflict with good parenting.


Take for instance... the shedding season:


Babies must crawl. Developmentally, they have to crawl.


Dogs must shed. If they didn't, they'd turn into Yettis.


And no matter how you groom your dog, and no matter how often you sweep, inevitably doghair tumbleweeds will roam your house with wild abandon, as will your baby.


Which means that eventually (soon and often) your baby will find a clump of your dog.


And eat it.


My solution (because I do love my dog) is to believe that doghair is good for Mose, will help him develop allergy-resistance. But each time I find him curled up with his thumb in his mouth, clutching a ball of dirty Dave-hair in his hot little fist...


I have to wonder.