Monday, May 31, 2010

pets as children, part 2

Puppy is my child. Coworkers, deal with it.

Despite referring to Puppy (mostly in my head, mind you) as my kid, I promise to refrain from the following behavior:


- posting ultrasound / the-second-after-birth pictures of Puppy on facebook

- entertaining (read: horrifying) my coworkers with Puppy's successful house training stories....or accidents

- giving the hour-by-hour details of Puppy's twenty-four hour bug

- bringing sick Puppy in to work because Doggy Day Care won't take 'em until 1 day without a fever

- discussing every behavioral milestone of Puppy's




(no offense if you have done any of the above. I guess my dog just isn't "child" enough to me to blast facebook/work/the bus with it.)

3 comments:

sciedgrrl said...

there is a "support group" for people whose friends/coworkers over share :)

http://stfuparents.tumblr.com/

i think my biological clock actually turned off after finding this site.

Ψ*Ψ said...

People at my university bring their dogs to work, and 3 PM is puppy playtime out on the lawn. It's pretty adorable.
(Sure, they put up NO DOGS ALLOWED signs, but those were promptly removed by offended faculty/staff/students.)

Doctor Pion said...

I'm waiting to see if any of the people who jumped all over one blogger for writing about her cats will attack you for writing about Puppy. Is there species-ism in the academic blog world?