Unruly Pets=Unruly Kids?

My pets are total brats lately. I'm not sure if it's the warmer weather, the shorter amounts of time I've had to spend with them lately, or if they are on a kick of bad behavior but they are draining the life out of me. Then I feel like a bad pet parent who has these absolutely unruly, undisciplined pets scampering about the world without any human guidance or decency. Before 8am I am filling food dishes while dodging hungry dogs, sweeping up the unstuffed toy fluff, feeding the cat scratching at the door all the while being glared at by the cat as if she is saying "touch me and I will claw your face until it's unrecognizable". Oh, the love. Then the next minute they are all looking at me with their head crooked to the side and with their angelic eyes and I just want to scoop them up and hold them forever.

Since I don't have children yet my husband-to-be and I always talk about how our kids will not be like others kids. I firmly belive everyone has these conversations at one time because nobody wants to be "that family" in the restaurant that the other patrons want to evict from their table because the kids are causing such a ruckus and the parents are screaming at them to settle down that there is no way you could enjoy your dinner in peace. However, I have to wonder if our pets are preparing us for parenthood. I try to discipline them and teach them how to stay out of trouble, but they simply can't grasp the human concept of not drinking out of the toilet or not eating the pizza we left on the ottoman long enough to get a drink in the kitchen. I sincerely hope that when our time comes to be parents to nonfurry kids we are more prepared to bring them up the right way which will not include urinating on our visitors pants and/or shoes simply because they are excited visitors are in our home. In the mean time I will continue to love on my pets even though they are not perfect and pray for the best that we will not be "that family" with "those kids". They will have manners. They will have manners. They will have manners...even though our pets do not. Right?