It's normal to refer to ourselves as mummy and daddy to our cat right?

[Kenworthington]

Right??

NO....

I arrived at a very official quarantine centre yesterday to visit my cats who have just flown half way around the world. Once I'd shown my photo id and import papers, disinfected my hands and shoes and put on a white overall to avoid cross contamination, the receptionist announced through the intercom that "Fluff and Snowy's mummy is here to visit them!"

My parents refer to our cats as their "grandcats"

I, however, am The Catleesi, Mother of Kittens

Yes, we are 'mummy' and 'daddy' to our cats and dog. I tend to refer to myself in the third person when I talk to them - 'Mummy wants to sit there' etc. We have no human children, and never will, so I don't think this is likely to affect anyone.

I refer to myself as Granny as my daughter is the cat's mummy. DH not so keen on being Grandad though.

Me and dh are lady and gentleman human

My mum calls the kitten her grand-kitten :-)

I don't be actually call myself the kittens Mum, but I bloody love him so much. So much more than I thought was possible for a furry thing.

No, I try really hard not to. There's an instinct in me to say "mummy has to go to work" but I quite deliberately ignore it. I have petless friends that automatically refer to me as her mum though - so I do think there's an instinct. I think it's partly as was said further down, I have to come to terms with my childlessness. That means in the bluntest, hardest of terms I am never going to be 'Mummy'. So referring to myself as such around the cat is not going to help with that.

We do and DM refers to Harry as her furry grandson. That stems from her being told by a stranger how selfish I am for not having children - she decided after that to say she's got a grandson and not mention he's got a lot of fur, four legs and a tail!

Of course: they are my babycats. And they're DH's fluffy babies. And DS , hulking great teenager he is is their little boy (ignoring the fact that he's older than them and, er, not a kitten)

Beware, though, if you text messages from your animal babies to your other halves. I once received a toe-curlingly embarrassing text from a client's Labrador which the lab had meant to send to his human daddy. It's not often that solicitors get legitimately to take the piss out of their clients but this was irresistible

Going against the grain but I find it really weird. They're pets not children You can love a pet dearly but it's nothing like a child is it. The only person I know who does this is an elderly relative who never had children. Each to their own though if it makes you happy

It's simply because we are our pets' caregivers. DH and I are "Mummy" and "Daddy" to our cat (and our kids!) - it's simply a natural way to refer the primary people in a caregiving relationship. If it doesn't cause any problems or misunderstandings, it should be fine.

I refer to myself as 'catmother' to the cat, but only in private..

I'm in the minority, but God no. I'm happy to affectionately call the cats my "fur babies" and even joke about DS being their "brother", but referring to myself as their "mummy"?! A step too far and massively cringey IMO.

I think when it comes to cats, "slave" is a more appropriately title anyway

I don't, but only because it seems to me to take away their 'catness' in some way? I love them because they are cats, not babies or children. When I have been lucky enough to have cats in my life I prefer to think of them as my companions. That absolutely does not stop me being all gooey over them and talking to them in silly voices and all, but I am not 'mummy'.

We are mum and dad. DCat is 9 so mummy and daddy feels weird.

OK I may clearly be in the batshit crazy list, but I really do love ours as much as the dc, I feel so protective of them as they can't tell us if they're unhappy.

I can usually tell when they're about to come down with something the vets are now used to me bringing ours in right at the beginning of illnesses. The first time I did it was when our older boy was coming down with crystals in his urine and the vet wanted to send us home as he felt nothing was wrong. When I insisted they keep him in for observation they realised I was right.
The vets told DP they'd never had any cat in at such an early stage and because it had been caught so early they were able to deal with it much more easily.

It's exactly how I can tell when my dc are about to come down with something.

They do feel like my babies to me.

I accept I may be nuts. But they're very very loved and as to who would I save if the house burned down, I wouldn't leave without all of them dc and furries.

Don't you have to have given birth to become a parent, or at least adopt/foster from the same species?
Do pet owners really think their pets are their children? How weird.

It feels more natural when you are saying to cat "oh look, here's dad home" or "if you want fed, go see dad". using DH' s name would feel odd.

Hell yes!

I'm grandma to two of mine, as they're the children of my original two! 😂

Me and my DP do this. I'm pregnant with my first baby and it feels weird to be calling each other mummy and daddy to our little cat, but it's good to get used to the names for when we are parents.

My cat has a posh voice and I voiced him too when we first got him at the age of 11 wks having met him 2 mins!!!! He arrived at our flat, instead of curling up like a lil kitten, he sat upright next to (thank gawd) a crystal vase, looked around the room with great disdain and said : A F L A T ? I WAS EXPECTING A COUNTRY MANSION DEAR LADY. Hence his name is Sir P!!!! I am still Mummy though :-/

-2- Gillybeanz - they are just words "Mummy and Daddy" not a biological description! I agree with the poster who said it'd be more weird using Daddy's name eg Fluffy, Geoffrey is home now, Whiskas stocks and shares have dropped somewhat :-/

Oh, I'm surprised. We have a cat, I'm not it's Mammy. Never occurred to me.