This Generation Raises Dogs Like Kids. And Honestly? That's Not Weakness — It's Something Else Entirely
This Generation Raises Dogs Like Kids. And Honestly? That's Not Weakness — It's Something Else Entirely The guy in front of me at the pet store was having a crisis. Not his crisis. His dog's. "Honey, which one?" he murmured into his phone, holding up two bags of dog food. "She didn't like the salmon. She keeps walking away from the bowl. I think she's doing salmon poops now and she doesn't like it." He wasn't talking to a vet. He wasn't consulting a YouTube video. He was calling his roommate to adjudicate a food dispute between himself and his golden retriever. I watched him walk out with the duck and sweet potato. The dog, waiting in the car with her head out the window, tail wagging like she'd just won a court case. And something about that moment stuck with me. So What Are We Actually Doing Here? Here's the thing about this generation and our dogs: we talk about them like they're our kids. We buy them birthday cakes. We...