I agree that some folks are a little weird about their pets, but after 3 years working from home, these animals do get trained to assume someone is around. Dogs shred stuff, etc.
Also, some people treat their inanimate cars with more loyalty and love than a pet, so it’s not really that weird.
Some people treat anthropomorphized _companies_ with that loyalty and love, so it doesn’t seem weird at all.
A car, treated right, will last upwards of 100 years, whereas pets have a more finite lifetime. And all they really need is to be stored and used right, with a little maintenance work. Either case is an irrational idolatry though