[gedy]

I agree that some folks are a little weird about their pets, but after 3 years working from home, these animals do get trained to assume someone is around. Dogs shred stuff, etc.

[jcutrell]

Also, some people treat their inanimate cars with more loyalty and love than a pet, so it’s not really that weird.

[jen20]

Some people treat anthropomorphized _companies_ with that loyalty and love, so it doesn’t seem weird at all.

[thomasjb]

A car, treated right, will last upwards of 100 years, whereas pets have a more finite lifetime. And all they really need is to be stored and used right, with a little maintenance work. Either case is an irrational idolatry though