All Creatures

here’s to pet parents

Taking care of an animal is not the same as taking care of a child. Still, having a pet requires many of the same responsibilities. That animal is part of your family, depends on you and yearns for you to love it unconditionally. Here’s why all of us with pets in our lives can be called parents too.

1 We feed them.

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