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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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Friend, neighbors, and neglected dogs.

Reddit Animals

The plan was to keep him but they ended up finding his owners and giving him back was very emotional. Their dream is to run a dog ranch for abandoned neglected dogs so it’s really hitting home. They love there dogs and are amazing owners. A few days ago a stray showed up and they took him in.

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My rescue dog had to be euthanized due to aggressive brain tumor only after a month of having him and I feel shattered. Ways to cope? Would it be wrong to buy a new puppy?

Reddit Animals

My rescue dog was 5 years old and I wanted to give him a loving home after being abandoned (probably due to brain tumor symptoms), but I am too scared to take a new rescue dog so I think about a puppy. I am scared I will fall into depression otherwise, my dog was a huge emotional support to me since I have PTSD.

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Paradise Regained

10,000 Birds

I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. And this was once a wonderful patch of bird-rich understory. Now it is just… grass. Still, the current pandemic’s extreme social-distancing requirements have limited my site options. No doubt, my low expectations were key.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Put simply, many people just can't handle the truth--or too much of it at once.

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Take Wing and Fly Here by Priyanka Kumar

10,000 Birds

As a result, I couldn’t help siding with the people he was accusing of abandoning him. She engages in a borderline emotional affair with J.K.’s It wasn’t like he was ever making an effort to be there for them, so why should they do it for him?

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. We should not abandon our meat-eating habits, but remoralize them, by incorporating them into affectionate human relations, and using them in the true Homeric manner, as instruments of hospitality, conviviality and peace.

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