It's not a good idea to compare children to pets. There is no comparison.

That's why I said I can only imagine.

It’s about the same as having a puppy except instead of a couple weeks it lasts 5 years.

Hah, yeah. I raised a mini Australian Shepherd from a puppy, and naively thought that experience had at least somewhat prepared me for parenthood.

(It didn’t. At all. It’s an insanely wild ride.)