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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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I definitely do.... I see it everyday with my own animals. I see joy and I have seen depression. The love is evident whenever they seek me out and are not content until they can be on my lap.
Kay
Absolutely!!
Anybody who thinks otherwise is obviously emotionally challenged themselves!
And anybody who thinks animals have no place in heaven is also an idiot!!
So there!
Animals love, and laugh, and mourn. They experience greed and fear and dislike. Their emotions are varied and real. I have no doubt.
Positive that they do. Nearly everyone of you have met my dog Gina, in fact Tom said "oh yeah, and your date was a real dog" at one of his superbowl parties.
She is a soul like any other, she truly 'feels' and has 'emotions'. She lets me know when she is sad and happy. She is a very intelligent dog. I have tried to teach her to count, yeap you read it here, but thats where her limits are.
I don't even think I really have to give my opinion on this one, Cin. Anyone that knows me has already heard me go on and on about things like this :)
I'll just say "ditto" to all of those posted so far.
For those that disagree, take one look into the eyes of a formerly abused animal when you hold him and love him and reassure him everything will be alright....tell me you don't see emotions and feelings in those eyes!
Heck yes!
Have you ever seen two dogs fighting?
Or a dog wagging their tail when they see you come home?
Or how a cat purrs when you love on them.
Yes I do believe that animals have emotions, but I also believe that we as animal crazed humans (I proudly count myself among these), project human traits and emotions onto our animals as if they were another human being. Animals process some things like us and some things very different than us.
We have an obligation to care for animals in a loving and humane way, but it becomes dangerous to equate them entirely as human with every right a human has.
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