@mutageno Another case of the furbaby insanity. No, your cats (or dogs in those cases) are not your children. Stop putting them on an equivalent level. She claims to not want children, but her maternal instincts make her want to care for something.

If she does not realize that she actually wants children (most women do), she will find herself in quite a bit of misery when she is older with no family to call her own.