I dont like it either when I see people refer to an animal as it

I often say my dogs are my furbabies or furfriends and that im their Mum , but im fully aware that they are dogs and they do get treated like dogs

I don't like using 'it' but I will refer to them as 'the dogs' or just 'the dog' sometimes. Their ears prick up at 'dog' as it's usually in the context of "have you fed the dogs?"/"shall we take the dogs out?"

Yeah I do that too. I'd also refer to the children as "the kids" though!

I hope they appreciate your hunting prowess

I hate it as well well people call their dogs it. I can understand with a strange dog and TBH i think i dislike it more when people say 'he' about my dogs as they stut about in bright pink collars! LOL I try to say their or your dog so for example, 'Your dog is lovely, whats their name?'

I dont ever call mine 'it' though we do ofter refer to Cassie as 'The Lurcher' Ela and Raina as 'The idiots'

This made me laugh. I saw a beautiful pink and gold martingale collar when I was looking for one for Guinness. I contacted the owner of the site to ask if it could be done in any other colours. I wasn't going to put a pink one on a male dog (to save on the gender confusion I knew would result).

Love it

A friend put a pink diamante collar on her white GSD to make her gender clear. Like your dogs people still referred to her as "he" .

Ah well better than"it" I suppose.

Gelert has been mistaken for a girl a couple of times. I think it's because he's got quite a dainty, pretty little face I should get him a really butch collar with studs on...
I'd rather he was called she than it anyway!