Long time friend is happily childless, and until a year ago was happily single. Now she's all loved up, her mother and sister (who has two kids) are really ramping up the 'When are you going to have a baby?' routine. To be fair her mother has been doing it for years, but now it's 'Now you've finally found a man you haven't got an excuse anymore'. She keeps telling them she's not interested (her partner isn't either) but it either falls on deaf ears or it's 'you're being selfish, you'll regret it when you're older' etc.
Friend and partner have now decided they want a dog. She made the mistake of mentioning this to her mother and sister. Their reactions were priceless. 'Do you know how expensive they are? How much looking after they take? What will you do with it when you're at work?'
Surely they must see some irony in trying to push her into bringing human life into the world, whilst telling her that a pet is too much responsibility?