All Animals Have Deep Emotional Lives
All animals have feelings and personal preferences
It always amazes me when people say that animals don’t have feelings.
“He’s just a dog. He doesn’t know the difference.”
But he does have feelings and he does know the difference — if he didn’t, why would he wag his tail when he has his favorite toy or cry when I leave to go get groceries?
It’s because he’s a feeling, living being — just like you and me.
All animals have feelings and individual interests
When I first got my dog, I was a young teenager who wasn’t thinking about what kind of life I wanted to give my new pet. All I knew was that I wanted a house dog and that I wanted one right now.
I wanted to spoil my new dog rotten and do all the fun things that people with dogs did. We would be closer than peas in a pod — he would be the Phineas to my Ferb, the Pluto to my Mickey, the Dino to my Fred.
It turned out not to be that simple. My new dog had terrible anxiety. He was highly sensitive and afraid of everything — even his new toys were scary to him.
I didn’t know what to do.
