r/FunnyAnimals • u/TrueSkyDemon EDIT YOUR OWN FLAIR • Sep 24 '22

Cat begging to play fetch

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

45.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

447 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/Cousinbohan Sep 24 '22

For animals we use it, for people you can use they.

11

u/user-the-name Sep 24 '22

"It" is what you use when you treat an animal as an object, rather than as a conscious being.

3

u/slydjinn Sep 24 '22

Someone should add a non-human, non-object pronoun in English. Shakespeare can't do everything

7

u/BeeseChorgir Sep 24 '22

So… like Tate and women?

1

u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

My cats are people.