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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course.  You have to worry about and provide for a defenseless child you brought into the world.

If that responsibility doesn't age you, you probably aren't doing it right. [/quote]

You do the same for pets though! You bring defenseless pets home and have to feed, train, exercise them, etc.[/quote]

A pet is not a child. Raise a child and you will admit the difference. Promise.[/quote]

+100. I love my dogs. But there is no comparison. None.[/quote]

If there is no comparison, you aren’t doing it right. I feel sorry for your pets.[/quote]

That is crazy.  And I have cats that I love dearly - but I wasn’t pregnant with them - no going through „morning“ sickness, pregnancy fatigue and depression, no major abdominal surgery to birth then, no constant sleep deprivation for months, no triple feeding them - almost all day nursing/pumping/feeding, etc.  No not having the hands free/time to make healthy food and not being able to leave them alone to go exercise. There are just so many ways that having a kid ages you in a way that having pets doesn’t.  
I have a newborn so I’m not listing the later stresses but truly there is no comparison.

And I am someone who slept on the floor in a closet for the sake of my first cat and in the final days of his life also slept on the floor and carried him to the bathroom in the middle of the night when he was paralyzed and couldn’t go himself. (It was only a couple days between sudden paralysis and death…)

That being said I do know a number of people who think having kids keeps them active and young (but they are well beyond the newborn stage).  I definitely have grayed more since giving birth.

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