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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 5:50 pm
 


Title: Dogs feel jealousy, science confirms
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Posted By: Regina
Date: 2014-07-24 07:45:21
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 5:50 pm
 


Ask any dog owner and they wi tell you that dogs can and do get jealous. You don't need a study on that.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 5:52 pm
 


Dogs are very status conscious within the pack. In the days of yore it determined who got to breed and who got to eat.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:14 pm
 


I wouldn't put any "human" emotions on animals.

"In no case is an animal activity to be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes, if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of processes which stand lower in the scale of psychological evolution and development"

Can you say, "stimulus–response"?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:44 pm
 


raydan raydan:
I wouldn't put any "human" emotions on animals.

"In no case is an animal activity to be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes, if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of processes which stand lower in the scale of psychological evolution and development"

Can you say, "stimulus–response"?


Yet animals do show fear, sadness, anger etc., or are you of the mind that animals can't show any emotion?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:56 pm
 


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:13 pm
 


Public_Domain Public_Domain:
He's just saying that it is unwise to pretend that animals feel emotions the way that we do. If we paint them up as human, we are not giving the proper considerations for how their emotions actually work. We like to think we understand the internal voices in our pets' minds, but we do not, and we are foolish to make any decisions based purely on our interpretation of their emotions.

For example, letting a child play around a dogs face is a bad idea. You make think your loyal and timid friendly beast won't snap, but that dog does not react to situations like a human would. You simply can not fully understand what will set off an animals fight or flight reaction to what we consider very benign situations.

I don't believe ray meant any harm with his statement.


I know he didn't mean harm but to say that some emotions are human and can't exist in other animals is false. Having been around animals all my life (mainly dogs) they do have emotions that are very similar to ours. I've seen anger, fear, joy, embarrassment just to name a few.

You don't need to tell me about confusing an animal with a human. The girl I have right now is loyal and friendly to a fault, but she has no experience with young children and I wouldn't trust her around them. Her one problem area is "prey drive" especially around smaller things, rabbits, squirrels etc, and young children tend to have the same pattern of movements as small animals. I don't think she would do anything as long as I'm there but I don't know for certainty.

At the end of the day she is an animal, and is not a human. And as much as it would pain me, if she ever bit a young child I would have her put down. :?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:15 pm
 


To call them "Human" emotions is to put the cart before the horse. It is far more likely they are Mammalian or some earlier Evolutionary branch where Emotions began to form.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:19 pm
 


sandorski sandorski:
To call them "Human" emotions is to put the cart before the horse. It is far more likely they are Mammalian or some earlier Evolutionary branch where Emotions began to form.


Thanks, I was trying to say that but seemed to get a little tongue-tied. :oops:


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