I call my animals "my kids, my son, my daughter". Not weird at all to me. Just like some people like to dress their yorkies, others don't... To each their own, as long as we love and take care of them does it matter?
Many of my RL friends and family think I'm a wack for even being on YT. "A forum for yorkies???, now that's crazy" lol
But I think we all pretty normal here.