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I love when small children identify all quadripedal animals as “doggy!”

It always reminds me of the time Plato offered the definition of a human as any “featherless biped” and Diogenes busted into the Academy with a plucked chicken screaming, “BEHOLD A MAN!”

i love the implication you were there when it happened. good times right

There are only seven kinds of animal, just fyi. My toddler has compiled a handy taxonomy:

• “Kitties”, self-explanatory, however this also includes anything smaller than a cow which is not readily identifiable, and is not a—
• “Pup”, a recent addition (thanks hop on pop), anything which is
  obviously a dog, although anything not obviously a dog is a kitty.
• “Cow”, anything you would find in a barnyard is a cow. Goats, horses,
  Eeyore. Poor Eeyore. She knows Pooh and Tigger and Rabbit, and “Cow”.
• “Birdies”, this kid is very good at identifying birdies, and also
  windows, the portal through which one sees the most birdies, which are
  naturally also called birdies.
• “Owls”, we don’t know why she knows how to identify owls, specifically. Some sort of strange baby power.
• “Bears”, which is good, it’s important to be able to say “omg there’s a
  fucking bear” so you can run away or play dead or whatever one does
  when one sees a bear. Also includes the teddy variety.
• “Howms”,
  which are, thanks to an affinity for Big Cat Rescue and the fact that
  she likes to watch tiger videos, any and all big cats. They are named
  after her stuffed tiger, who was named with the word she used to use when she meant “meow”, back when she thought he was a “kitty”. Cheetah? Howm. Leopard? Howm. Lion? Howm.
  Seahorses? For some reason also Howm. They’re all Howms.