What does our devotion to animals - or lack thereof - says about us, wonders Anna Hartford.
Humans are forever giving animals human-like attributions, for example, Grumpy Cat - the late cat who spawned a thousand memes."Does my cat love me?" I found myself typing this into Google the other day. . It's hard to know what I was looking for.
After all, these well-meaning bloggers were in no real position to answer my question. I may as well have asked"Do cockroaches appreciate sunsets?""Do dassies worry about their weight?""Do flamingos ponder the afterlife?" And we're especially prone to attribute human traits to animals: we imbue them with moods, emotions, beliefs, desires, values, intentions and aspirations. The evidence of this is everywhere: our myths and fables, our children's books and movies, our memes , are filled with speculation about the inner lives of animals.
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