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Dogs Feel No Shame No Matter How 'Guilty' They Look, Behaviorists Say (VIDEO)
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)That animals feel the same emotions in the same circumstances.
On the other hand.... OOOOOH KITTIES!!!!
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 27, 2014, 10:56 PM - Edit history (1)
I remember being a kid when we had a Cairn Terrier. Whenever I was feeling blue, he'd come up to me and pawed me until I was smiling and gave him a big hug. It always worked.
One time, while I was travelling with my parents in the motor home, he totally panicked because I was hiding up above that driver's compartment and he thought I'd got left behind at the last rest stop and he couldn't see me. He only relaxed when I called out to him.
No, dogs feel real emotion and are not just automatons showing behaviours that get them fed. I'm convinced of that.
ETA: ambiguous grammar.
ashling
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uriel1972
(4,261 posts)I do not dispute that and never would. The flaw is in thinking that they would given the markedly different evolutionary paths, feel the same emotions in the same situations as we would.
Having owned cats I know them to have their own idiosyncrasies and moods. However they aren't by nature highly social creatures like we are and they have different responses to triggers.