What would you do it you found out that while your friend was watching your dog or pet, she got the animal blessed by a Priestess of the Goddess Temple or by a Roman Catholic priest, but your dog is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or atheist? In this video, 7 different religions are blessing the animals:
What if you found out the Mormons were posthumously converting your pets to Mormons?
I don’t know. Is there any way I could make a buck off of this? Maybe get some Snoop Dogg concert tickets?
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I would be pretty pissed. 
Except I don’t have pets.
The first thing i’d do is stare in disbelief for about a minute. Then i don’t know. That’s such a rediculous thing to do in my opinion, i’d be torn between laughing my head off and pissed at my friend for trying to push their religiousness into my life without my concent. I’d probably laugh and not speak to them for a good long while as negative reinforcement 
Individuals can then choose to accept or reject what has been done in their behalf.
I guess you’ll just have to train your pet to reject Mormon heaven. 
It does have me wondering which level of Mormon heaven proxy baptism entitles one to.
People from various religions may believe that they own the eternal spirits of our pets, but I think they are our souls.
(With apologies to Andy Hamilton.)
Into YOUR life? Doesn’t your dog have a life independent of you? If they didn’t tell you, you wouldn’t even know your dog had become Mormon.
Mike,
I’m not sure I understand you here. You think they (the eternal spirits of our pets) are our souls?
Did Andy Hamilton the comedian suggest that?
And I should have posed his as a poll, cuz many people aren’t saying whether it’s an ethical violation, or whether they actually did the pet a favor that the owner maybe was too negligent to perform.
Billy
What do you say when your dog “gets loose” or “escapes” and consequently “runs away”?
Would you say any of these?
She left me.
He packed his shit and left town.
We’ve separated.
He decided to go it on his own.
My dog moved.
Dave,
We’ve moved out of the dark ages of “dog ownership” and into the light of animal companions.
Can you tolerate it if your companion doesn’t practice all the same things as you?
Billy
I think you’re confusing your dark and light. Dogs are animals that need to be trained to remain subservient to man. The consequences of owning a dog that hasn’t been properly trained are, in some cases, fatal.
Wouldn’t care at all.
Pascal’s Wager, I guess, applied to all the probabilities.
They’re just hedging my bets for me, cuz I’m surely not putting my chips down on that table.
More for hookers and blow this way.
YOu may choose to live in the dark ages with your animal or other domestic companions, but know the domestic human companion poses a much greater threat than any animal companion.
Whether or not your wife owns you, she better have you well trained. many women are killed by their domestic partner, and …
Disney.com | The official home for all things Disney Cause of Death for Pregnant Women is Murder
According to Baltimore TV station WJZ, “Murder is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.”
The story mentions a number of murders, and makes the following even more depressing statement: “In each case, police say the killer was the unborn baby’s father. Ending the pregnancy was the motive.”
Did the murder method happen to work well as a means of birth control?
Sorry to be crass, Billy. I’ve seen wild information tossed carelessly about by you and, even more so, by others but lending credence to a statement like, “murder is the leading cause of death for pregnant women,” is INSANE at the very best. You, as well as the internet article itself, both site the source of the information as a television station. Hello? A TV station is going to be doing statistical and actuarial analysis now? What was the demographic? I know part of it…a healthy (enough to be fertile) woman aged 12 to 45 or undisclosed subset thereof. Is this a group likely to die from disease or old age? I think car accidents are most likely.
But keep up the good work, my man. Knowing that people believe unsubstantiated crap like this is one of the things that keeps a smile on my face and keeps me entertained.
Harper,
Threadjack!
Now, I’ve seen pics of you uni-ing with a dog. Do you have a dog?
Be well!
Billy
Billy, for once, please answer my question. Because I think it will reveal a hidden “dog ownership” mentality in you. How can you turn the tables on me? Did I say anything about owning a dog? No. I simply asked you questions design to enlighten you. Please avail yourself.
Dave,
I’m sorry about that.
However, I think your question deserves its own thread, and when I see it, I’ll gladly join in THAT discussion. Or if you prefer, PM me and I’ll respond.
Would you mind answering MY question for THIS thread?
Billy
In God is Not Great Christopher Hitchens asks this question about a Jewish couple in Italy whose son was taken from them so that he could be raised as a Christian. (The question is asked after a lengthy discussion of the insanity of sanctioning the taking of a child from its parents because of their religion.)
When offered the choice to convert to Christianity in order to get their child back, how could they have refused?
If someone blesses my pets I am happy to acknowledge that they do so for their own benefit and not the pets, and as such is the case, no harm has been done.
My brother was “kidnapped” by our orthodox uncle and given a Bar Mitzvah against our parent’s wishes. Our folks were livid, but in fact, no real harm was done. And our orthodox relatives live in the comfort that my brother, unlike me who was quarantined from them during my 13th year, has at least the chance of being near their God some day. And we live with a great story about how nuts our relatives are.
As JJuggle said, it all depends on the “spirit” in which it was done. If it is done out of love for our pets, no harm done. If it is done to send a message to us, it might be time to reassess who our “friends” are.
And yeah, for anyone new, or who hasn’t figured it out yet, most of what Billy says is not his actual opinion.
Woah! Let’s not go too far with this threadjack, but …
Your brother has become a man and you have not.
Did your brother actually read the Torah and/or Haftarah portion at a Shabbat or other service? Had he learned Hebrew under your parents’ guidance, or did your uncle take him for a LONG period of study?
Did you and your family attend your brother’s Bar Mitzva?
Were you invited?
If you were invited, would you have gone?
Did he have a party? Did he get lots of $$$?
Your uncle can still kidnap you and get you Bar Mitzva-d. It would do you good, and you need not be 13.
Did you both have a bris? Do you have your bris certificates?
Is your mom secretly grateful to your uncle?
What do your parents think of you teaching UU? Do they think you flaunt that in their face to express your anger at them for failing to give you adequate religious training?
Please tell your brother BillyTheMountain said Mazel tov!
I’m glad at the very least you agree that “no harm has been done” to your pets who get blessed. So you won’t object if someone gets your pets blessed. Can we assume you also won’t object if we convert them to another religion? Can we assume your pets are UU, like you?
Do your relatives really think you do not have a chance of being near their GOD because you were not Bar Mitzva-d? What about kids who die before age 13? Implicit in that is the notion that your relatives might believe in more than one GOD, like one for THEM and another for others, which is a violation of the basic tenet of monotheism.
Billy
That’s a lot of questions, Billy.