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To think Xmas cards to dogs and cats from 'mummy' and 'daddy' is OTT?

26 replies

sighsighsigh · 22/12/2009 14:07

I've just been into Clinton cards and found special Christmas cards along the lines of "Merry Christmas to my Cat/Dog from Mummy and Daddy".

Personally I was and thought it was a bit over the top. After all it is a card - for an animal too. But why on earth is a pet owner the animal's 'mummy' or 'daddy' ?

OP posts:
mulledfruitshootandcheese · 22/12/2009 14:09

They have edible pet Christmas cards in Sainsbury's!

ButterflyEmma · 22/12/2009 14:09

YANBU - I agree tis a bit OTT!

Original poster
sighsighsigh · 22/12/2009 14:10

Edible cards for a pet have a purpose but these cards were paper!

OP posts:
Earthstar · 22/12/2009 14:11

Because lots of pet owners refer to themselves as mummy or daddy - I am not crazy about the terms but it is in very common use - haev you never come across it before?

LastOfTheMulledWine · 22/12/2009 14:12

My brother's ex-wife used to buy them. She also used to wrap the yappy little scrote in a blanket and rock it to sleep. And on its birthday it would have a bbq with presents and cards and she'd cook an entire fecking salmon on the bbq for it and nowt for the assembled guests who frankly, were only there to witness the car crash unfold.

It's dead now. But she's named her new baby after it so that's a nice tribute isn't it?

displayuntiltwelfthnight · 22/12/2009 14:13

sadly there are a number of poeple in the world who think of themselves as mummy and daddy to their pets

quite why these people delude themselves into thinking their pet can actually read a card they give to them is beyond me

maybe I'm just miserable

yanbu

InMyLittleHead · 22/12/2009 14:15

I love my cat (he is, quite frankly, the best cat ever and I'm not going to have an argument about it). DP thinks I'm mad for talking to him all the time. But even I don't think he can read... YANBU.

ginormoboobs · 22/12/2009 14:17

YANBU , I worked in a card shop and it was a certain type of person who bought these cards. We also had people come in and buy cards for each others dogs
Dogs and cats can't read. Why do they need a Christmas card.
Mummy and Daddy to a dog is just wrong and strange. They are not it's parents!
I have never and will never buy a card for an animal. It's weird.

Pikelit · 22/12/2009 14:20

I love my terrier. Litle bastard. But I am NOT his mummy because I am a human. His mummy is another Jack Russell.

Now a friend has bought him a Christmas present (unwrapped) and the dcs are likely to do something but I give him the giblets. The best Christmas present a dog could have. I wouldn't contemplate buying him a card, even if they came giblet-flavoured.

It's yet one more attempt to get the gullible to part with their money.

snowedinwithJjandtheBean · 22/12/2009 14:47

YANBU

a friend has two friends who are lesbians in denial a bit odd, and they came to a bbq in the summer we were at with there ''babies'' two of those pitbulls that have caused trouble in the news, anywho, they called themselves mum and mummy and i wanted to they also do partys and so on, said they dont want children, they why are you behaving like those dos are, bloody weird imo!

pigletmania · 22/12/2009 14:50

YANBU really sad, they have discovered another way of making money out of us mugs

Pikelit · 22/12/2009 14:56

I'll bet all these deluded pet owners refer to their doggies and pussies as "furbabies" too.
Gah!

BouncingTurtle · 22/12/2009 14:58

I am a bit stupid when it comes to my cat, he is a great old soppy fluff ball... but even I draw the lines at these sorts of cards.

Any excuse to make a bit of money out of the gullible!

Iklboodolphtherednosereindeer · 22/12/2009 15:02

There's a brilliant far side cartoon with a small dog looking at its owner saying something like:

I've got brown eyes, she's got blue eyes
I've got yellow hair, she's got black hair
I've got four legs, she's got two legs

Wait a minute....SHE'S NOT MY MOTHER!!!

ImSoNotTelling · 22/12/2009 15:12

I guess some people only have their pet to celebrate with

Other thn that, it's bonkers, but doesn't do any harm IMO.

(cat lover)

nickytwotimes · 22/12/2009 15:14

Yanbu.

I hate hearing people refer to themselves as Mummy or Daddy in relation to their pet.

Hopefully · 22/12/2009 15:18

OTT, yet hilarious.

UnquietDad · 22/12/2009 15:26

Oh, gawd, people who think their dogs and cats are their "babies" are high up on my cringe-ometer.

jumpyjan · 22/12/2009 15:42

I bet my MIL has bought one

GroundHoHoHogs · 22/12/2009 17:35

OMG! THAT tops it.. till then the most idiotic card I've seen was From the Bump....

Mind you, at least these cards are from a person that is out and about in the world..

The only card more ridiculous would be a card FROM the cat or the dog to Mummy/Daddy.

Sad, sad, sad...

nothingofthesort · 22/12/2009 17:38

YANBU. Maybe their cat/dog can read?

Tis worrying.

MamaLazarou · 22/12/2009 17:43

YANBU

I worship and adore my two cats, but even I would draw the line at giving them a Christmas card.

LuckySalem · 22/12/2009 17:47

YANBU - I love my animals and get them a present every year but I'd NEVER get them a card - unless its was edible!! lol

WynkenBlynkenandNod · 22/12/2009 17:54

I would say they are barking but as someone who caved to child pressure in the pet shop yesterday and forked out £3.49 for a dog Christmas stocking, I'm not sure I'm in a position to criticize.

UnquietDad · 22/12/2009 18:54

LOL at barking. Nice piece of intertextual irony there.