Moving on with our overview of crippling parental strategies imposed on kids that may create problems for our animals, this podcast looks at guilt. I’ve never decided to my satisfaction whether owner guilt is the result of its position as the driving force in the marketing of many pet-related products and services or the opposite. That is, is guilt such an obvious motivator in so many human-companion animal relationships that clever marketing types immediately recognized how capitalizing on this emotion could induce us to spend more money on our pets? Whatever the answer, there’s no denying what a potent role guilt plays in many human-animal relationships. As with the other problematic parenting approaches we’ve been exploring, the question is whether a guilt-driven one serves the animal on the receiving end of it as well as it may serve us.
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