Yeah... But dogs are better if you're not looking for a human relationship

Nigerian here and I disagree with Bassey. I’ll take a dog any day.

I don't know humans kinda suck. Scratch that we are terrible

I do get where you're coming from, I promise I'm not just jumping on the bandwagon here but.. my dog has never lied to me, my dog has never betrayed me, my dog has never abused me, cheated on me or broken my heart. My dog truly loves me unconditionally. Come to find out, family doesn't always love as unconditionally as they tell you when they're raising you. BUT my dog can't help with my social needs and the eventual need for human interaction, that's what my husband's for 🤷🏼‍♀️

No one said they replace human connection? Also, a dog has never raped me whereas a human sure has.

Second this

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From Asi's flag I can see they are Nigerian. Hello fellow African, yes we do not understand why EU/USA love dogs so much. In my country (SA) they are just security guards, unless of course you mean the handful of white people who basically follow EU/USA culture and love dogs a lot.

How is their personality?

What's more sad is putting your expectations on a child to procreate

But that can happen even if you have kids

oh and I am not Chinese, Sri Lankan here.

I had to scroll way too far down in the comments before I found anyone expressing this thought. I don't think the artist was saying elderly Germans prefer dogs more than children, but instead was speaking to the difference between Western households generally more prone to the "nuclear family" of parents and their children living separately from other family members, as opposed to a far more common extended family living arrangement regularly seen in the rest of the world. Not to say there aren't examples of both types of family arrangements in either China or Germany, just one model tends to be predominant.

NICE! You probably had a great, special relationship with your grandma also!

True! As kids get older, they become more peskily opinionated, more clever/tricky, and more capable of doing evil things to get their way. It's a constant arms race and it is exhausting. It's cruddy for the parents because parents must generally be lawful good or lawful neutral....but kids, kids can afford to be chaotic evil, and evil doesn't have to obey laws or decency or morality. They don't have "that line" they won't cross.

I think this may be a "you don't know till you've had one" thing. I didn't like dogs till I had a dog. Then I felt it was the most amazing creature ever and I would run over your kid if you harmed my puppy. But then, I had a kid, and now, I would still be super mad at you if you walked into my dog and crushed his paw or something..but if your kiddo was 3mo, I would feel bad for you and understand that you're sleep deprived and working off fumes... And also I would probably think your 3mo is still damn cute, and encourage you to hang in there. It's weird. Kids are not cute at all till you have a kid, then suddenly your kid feels cute, and other kiddos feel cute, and you totally feel bad for other sleep deprived parents, and dogs and cats still matter, but you're no longer as over-reactive or over-protective of them. Still love them, still protective, but the dog or cat feels more like a 8 year old who generally knows not to eat tons of Legos; perspective changes.

I absolutely adore my kid but I don’t feel anything when i look at other peoples babies or are around them. I don’t really think they’re cute or anything. But I do think all doggies are cute. So I’d have to agree puppies are cuter than babies in general.

Cats and Dogs all the way

Cat is better 200%

When you can make it work, having a dog, a cat and a child is the best.

Why don'tcha just name the kid Spare Parts in that case?

Some kids don't care about their parents or grandparents either. At least animals are grateful.

That's why we have Life Alert, or even just a cell phone in a pocket. I wouldn't trust anyone to regularly check on me.