Is this wrong?

Question

I think puppies and kittens are far cuter than babies. Is this wrong? Also, what might cause me to feel this way?

Answer 1

You want to know why you feel this way, and I have a few ideas.

A) You have been around babies, and they can be noisy and very demanding, also stinky at select times. Because of this, you may think of all babies as equally noisy/demanding/stinky. They can make parents tired and crabby. Maybe you look at a baby and think of how one would make you tired and crabby. You probably, then, ascribe to the "I'll never have kids of my own" line of logic. There's nothing wrong with believing this unless you are intentionally mean to babies.

B) Alternately, if you've not been around a lot of babies, maybe they make you nervous. They pull long hair, dangly or hoop earrings, and your necklace could be their new chew toy, which is a choking hazard. You have be relatively cautious with a baby: newborns can't hold their own heads up, if they are bottle-fed the nipples have to be sterilized so they don't get thrush, and as babies learn to walk...well, that's just about heart-gripping for everyone else, anticipating their first fall. And, everything and anything they can find will go in their mouths, so your house has to be child-proofed to the nth: no more nifty knick-knacks laying out in the open.

C) Puppies and kittens don't spit up their food/drink all over your new dress. Plus, they learn very quickly to go potty outside, with proper training—in a litter box or on a puppy pad, so there's no need for you to change a diaper. They don't scream red-faced at you when they are hungry, wake up in the middle of the night, start teething, or for no reason you can think of (because they have colic or if they are sick, etc.). They aren't expensive (they don't need clothes or diapers or a crib to sleep in), and they teach you some responsibility, only without wearing your nerves raw.

Baby animals such as these are furry, which adds to their appeal, but babies can be just as cuddly.

However, you don't have to carry around a kitten (which weighs a lot less than a baby), and even if you do, you don't have to huff along a diaper bag, too. You can leave the kitten or puppy at home when you go places without the little cutie, something you cannot do with a baby. Kittens and puppies are less demanding of your attention, and while they may be happy to get it, you can be replaced for them by anyone else as attentive or responsible (that, too, isn't true for a baby who has bonded with the mommy and daddy, or the main caregivers). Finally, you don't have to teach a puppy or kitten how to talk, nor would it make sense for you to read to them, and they don't really need you to tell them about the world around them so they will one day be able to verbalize about it.

---Even if you may not be thinking some of this stuff conciously when you see a baby, as opposed to a kitten or puppy, some of the above may be attached to your subconcious impressions of what one is compared to the others. I advise you stop comparing them as such, because they really represent different types of love (or affinity).

A baby needs and needs, I know, while a kitten can lick itself clean. 'Apples and oranges,' as they say, but both can be so cute.

Answer 2

Sometimes puppies and kittens ARE cuter than babies.

I don't know how old you are, but there's a pretty good chance that as you get older this will pass. And, when it's your baby, you may not know what you ever saw in puppies or kittens. On the other hand, some people really never do develop the parental instinct.

Either way, there's nothing wrong with how you feel. Just be careful not to be making any babies you don't really want yet.

Answer 3

Well I do too. Actually, I don't think babies are all that cute. Little children can be very cute--especially pretty little girls. Well...once they get hair (and begin to look more like porcelain dolls than those squishy plastic ones). But puppies and kittens are so cute. They're furry and plump in all the right places. And their cries are much sweeter (more tolerable that the harsh baby's squeal). Soft.

Answer 4

I dont think babies are that cute either. In fact babies make me uncomfortable.

Have you been around babies much growing up. Because i noticed all my friends that are like "OMG BABIES ARE SO CUTE" have been around them a lot. and I've never been around babies Ever. So when i see one it's like NEAT. lol.

so that might be why. I have no idea.

Answer 5

Cause they are less annoying then human babies?

Answer 6

Why would that be wrong? You have a right to your own opinion.

Answer 7

No. Sometimes adults HATE kids.

Answer 8

i dont think so. some people enjoy pets instead of children.theres nothing wrong with it