New Delhi, April 16 -- Social media has recently been flooded with dreamy, painterly videos showing pets wandering through flower fields or lounging in sunbeams, all set to melancholic music and filtered through what's being dubbed the "Ghibli" lens. It's part of the latest visual trend inspired by Studio Ghibli's iconic animation style-moody, magical, and nostalgic. For pet parents, like me, the temptation is undeniable.

But beyond the aesthetic delight and sentimentality, trends like these raise a more complex question: what happens when the desire to share our pets online begins to shape how we parent them?

This recent trend, for instance, has allowed people to showcase senior pets and rescued animals in a gentle, poetic way. The emo...