Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You, from HowStuffWorks.com.

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Caroline and I'm Kristen.

Kristen, people talk about pit tarant and there's a general kind of like negative assessment

that goes along with that and I can offer a negative assessment.

I was at the mall one day eating lunch and a woman in case you're not sure what a stereotypical

pit tarant looks like.

Is it different from a cat lady?

Is there a typical cat lady?

Well we'll see, I don't know, let me know.

I was enjoying my sandwich on my lunch break at the mall and a woman approximately around

the age of 70 in like a long, long wig and a hot pink jump suit.

Like you're already a sweatsuit perhaps it had a word on the butt.

She walked by pushing a stroller and I thought isn't that adorable?

That lady is taking her grandchild out for a lunchtime stroll and when I looked down

there was a dog in the stroller.

Oh and that is the image that I had in my mind when we started researching and reading

about pet parenting and the perceptions thereof.

Yes, someone wrote in with a suggestion about pet parenting because I feel like culturally

it's on the one end of the spectrum.

There is the person who might think to put their miniature dog in a stroller and take it out in public.

And that's normal.

And that's typical animal carrying behavior.

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