Jayne ,'Ariel'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But you just explained your weird pet thing, growing up.
This isn't about my weird pet thing -- this is not only an entire country, but most of the black Americans I've polled recoil the same way and call pet kissing a white thing.
And, it's not just black folk.
Hmm. The only pets I ever had as a kid were hermit crabs.
Also -- that "weird pet thing" isn't so much a weird thing, as an animal as utility thing. Kissing work animals is ... probably not so common. They were work animals we liked and played with, but still guard dogs.
Crap, I'm still up.
Anyway, no, the person in my story didn't have pets, as far as I know.
Europeans kiss and coddle pets, so it's not an Anerican thing. I think viewing animals as workers rather than companions, no matter what culture you're from is the key to how you treat them. The farmers in upstate NY where Jason's parents used to live don't kiss barn cats--often they don't even name them.
I kiss my cats all the time.
I never said it was an American thing -- did anyone else?
I have no personal experience with work animals, but still think kissing animals is kind of gross.
No, ita, I just thought your observation was intriguing and was trying to explore it further is all.
I kiss my cats on the head all the time. I thought everybody did that.
Me too. Huh.
Well, this is an interesting discussion.
And I guess I didn't read ita's earlier explanation all that carefully.