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Haha, I see I've created a bit of confusion in trying to segue from the reference thread- my bad. Hope this clears things up now.

 

As a preliminary statement of position, I shall not comment on what I think are "proper" bounds of a human-animal relationship. But I will say that while I can hardly find it wrong to wish to express/profess such a deep love of an animal to the point that one would want to 'marry' it, that this does entail a bit of a contradiction in terms of the definition of 'marriage' to me. This is no grounds to either claim 'marrying your animal is wrong', of course, but I would be thinking about matters of cultural sensitivity, proper consideration of all moral agents involved (certain aspects of the 'marriage' would be purely for the edification of the person and not his/her partner), and proper consideration of what the relationship actually is and how it plays out.

 

Having said that, I think the dynamics of any relationship can vary and there's also this big debate on how to compare humans and animals, so apart from saying guardian can be an appropriate term, I will not claim that it is. Further discussion pending, of course