Joel from Lansing is seeking advice regarding the treatment of dogs versus the treatment of children.
Maybe you can help me help Joel.
Here’s what Joel wrote in an e-mail to me:
“I wasn’t sure who to pose this question to, but I figured you may have as good an insight (or better) than those I affiliate with.
“My girlfriend has two kids, neither of which is mine. I have two dogs, whom I consider my own children.
“I love her kids, yet she is constantly rude and quite mean to my dogs. Is it wrong of me to treat her kids the way she treats what I consider to be mine?
“I would feel bad being rude and angry to a child but I don’t feel its right to treat my ‘kids’ different just because they aren’t human.”
So, what do you think, gang?
