I'm shocked at some of these comments. I can't speak for cats, but I have four dogs. All of them are considered my children, just adopted and canine. They are just as much a part of the family as any human. In fact, they are better than some humans because they show unconditional love, something no human will ever truly do. Imagine if your pet died, and someone berated you for being more upset about your mother's death. It's the same thing. Your mother may have been the most important one in your life. To someone else, the most important one may have been their dog or cat.

Look, you loved your mother and miss her terribly, its understandable, but try to understand, a hell of a lot of people value their furry family members as much as or more than people, while it may seem alien to you, i feel the same about people that actually have the ignorance it would take to bitch out/threaten to hit with a shovel someone that values pets on the same level as people simply because YOU feel it was insensitive or just wrong to equate losing a pet to losing a family member, seriously, get some perspective, its invaluable. Hows that for a run on sentence?

that is incomparable. losing a cat is way worse than losing a mom :P

Cat vs cougar

Wow...I'm really sorry ;/

I'm really sorry OP, for your loss and then for this person's insensitivity. In high school, I had a friend who had recently lost her mother to cancer and was talking about doing the relay for life to raise money and awareness for the cause. Another girl then started talking about how when her dog died, she spent time and money doing a walk for dog cancer-- yes, the money was going not to cure cancer in humans but in pets and she was not interested in doing the other walk as well-- then got angry when the girl who had lost her mother got upset with her for comparing the two situations and for prioritizing finding a cure in pets. It was her attempt at sympathizing, but it was a really poor and distasteful attempt.

Wow that person is a retard... How could u think those r in the same universe of pain. FTL lol.

I'm sorry for your loss. My 'friend' did the same to me by comparing the death of my dad to her dog...

Losing a pet that you've owned for a long time is very upsetting and traumatic but much easier to get over than the death of a member of your family

Honestly, I was probably more upset when my cat died than I would be if my mother died. I'm less attached to the woman who gave birth to me than I was to one of my pets.