Should Your Family Get a Pet?

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Are your kids steadily wearing you down on the topic of getting a puppy? Are you convinced that a "low-maintenance" pet like a turtle or fish will be a happy compromise for everyone? Here are some important points to consider if you are thinking about getting a family pet. Amy and Margaret discuss: Their soon-to-be-patented "pet decision matrix" Why smaller, "lower maintenance" pets are NOT less work than bigger ones How having a pet affects things like family travel, budget, and household labor Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Malinda Larkin for AVMA: "Pet population continues to increase while pet spending declines" Jacob Bogage for The Washington Post: "Americans Adopted Millions of Dogs During the Pandemic. Now What Do We Do With Them?" Lisa Damour for NYT: "What Do Teenagers Need? Ask the Family Dog" View our pet decision matrix! We're on Spotify! Please rate us and follow us there, even if you listen elsewhere. If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend! https://spoti.fi/41ZShqS We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, family pet, family dog, family cat, pet care, getting a pet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've already had a rat. We've had 12 of them. They lived in our house. One jumped out of the oven once while I was making cookies. What fresh hell. Laughing in the face of motherhood. Beware the slippery slope of because we have one pet now we need to get to. With Margaret Abels and Amy Wilson. A kid doesn't mind if they're in charge,
0:22.5	but they do not like when no one's in charge. A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas
0:28.8	so you don't have to. A cat is low maintenance, but it's not free.
0:37.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome to What Fresh Hell.
0:39.8	Laughing in the face of motherhood, this is Margaret.
0:42.1	And this is Amy.
0:43.1	And this week we're going to solve for you whether or not your family should get a pet.
0:48.1	Are we going to solve what kind of pet everyone's family should get?
0:51.2	What kind of pet should you?
0:53.6	Probably not, spoiler alert, but maybe you're going to.
0:56.2	This isn't for the person who knows they hate animals. Go with God. See? Margaret. Yes. Right. Or absolutely
1:03.0	loves animals, which means you have a pet already and good for you. This is for the like,
1:06.9	I'm not really sure I want to do this, but my children are wearing me down. This episode is for you.
1:11.8	Can we tell who we are in that rubric? Oh, for sure. For sure. Yeah, that's like where we are in this,
1:19.7	because you and I have, to no one's surprise, have a separate pet-owning approaches and stories and
1:25.3	everything else. But this came from Liz, who wrote in to ask,
1:29.0	has there been an episode about family pets?
1:31.1	We were in the process of researching our first family pet.
1:34.7	Liz, we are here for you.
1:36.0	My husband and I both had pets growing up,
1:37.8	but not since starting our own family.
1:39.9	Thank you, Amy and Margaret, for your show.
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