To not want to be my dogs 'mummy'?

[SpaghettiTwirlerAndProud]

I have a 10mo DD, I am her mummy. Not the dogs. Everyone seems to refer to me as his 'mum/mummy'. When I took him to the vets and the vet took him away to be weighed she brought him back in and said "Here you go, back to mummy." and quite a few other people have made other comments (can't think of any straight off the top of my head).

It just really bugs me.

AIBU?

Hi Spag. I am definitely my hound's mummy. But that is mainly because one of the reasons we adopted him was as a DC3 substitute. I guess they see a lot of people in there for whom the pet is their child and they are their 'parent' iykwim. I do have certain rather maternal feelings towards him too, like when he does something clever unusual because he is a bit of a dufus I get a little flush of pride. Or when he runs really fast or something, DH and I go a bit 'aaaahhhh', our big old furry fella.

I was in a pub years ago, a large labrador was sprawled across the floor, a woman stroked him and said" who is your daddy? Looking up at the men seated at the bar. One of them replied " I have slept with some bitches in my time but I can assure you he is not my son!"
Cue customers laughter!

If one is the dogs mummy then one is surely a bitch?

Oh, and call out our surname as well as his name at the vet's too, like one of the DCs. So they call something like " 'Muttley' Jones not our actual name! come through please."

A couple of years ago I was walking our dog and bumped into one of her friends. I had never seen the Dad before (only Mum and her DC's). I introduced myself and said 'Hello, you must be Indies Dad'. He looked horrified for a moment and then softened and replied 'You're right, I've never thought of it like that'.

DP and I even disagreed about which last name DDogs would have when we registered them at the vets (I won). I can't imagine being called anything other than mummy to them. If you don't like it, just ask people not to use it and us dog mums can carry on humanising our babies behaviour.

I'm not my dog's mummy. I'm his goddess

I used to work in a vets and calling dogs with their sirname's did raise a few eyebrows, but most people quite liked it. They are a member of the famiy after all.

I am my dogs mummy, i am my passed away dogs and rabbits mummy too, and the rats, but not the snakes or hamsters - there are LIMITS

I have no problems with other people referring to themselves as their pets (yes, I said it, PETS!) mummy or daddy. Just don't refer to me as my pets mummy.

It's lucky I didn't bump into you at the park then Spag

I love taking Mortimer to the Vets.

'Mr Mortimer Crow Mxxxxxxn please'

I've told my DH that until an actual human child appears out of me, the dog is my baby, and I am his mummy

LittleDog IS my baby boy. He is my sweet likkle bubkins too he even gets in the bath with me

Never seen a surname like that Stratters! Mxxxxxxn. How do you pronounce it? I imagine it to be Umzen.

Forgot to add :o

I don't refer to myself as mummy in respect of the dogs - I do call them the pack or,with mock poshvoice, the hinds (hounds) so "Come on pack/ hinds, lets go for a pee" last thing. Obviously I don't pee in the garden.

Dh calls me the "Alpha", or "monkey", so when he talks for the dogs, he says things like "Come on, monkey, throw the ball fgs", when he talks to the dogs, he says "the Alpha is calling you" etc.

We are odd.