THE ANIMALS We Are Loving As HUMAN...........................................

• THE SCIENCES

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• PLANET EARTH
• "ALL OF THIS PLACE CERTAIN HUMANS" WITH ARE PET ANIMALS " CHAIN.

Pet Animals Gourds Home and Catch Pets :

• Historically, we relied on our pets to herd livestock, guard homes, and catch pests. But most of us don’t need animals to do these things anymore. Pets have never been less necessary. And yet, pet ownership has never been more common than it is today: half of American households contain a cat, a dog, or both. Why are pets still around?
• Anthropomorphism means ascribing human qualities to animals. And certainly love is something we know first through human experience. But I think that different species can have different forms of love.

Emotional attachment to their pets :

• WHY KEEP PETS? Such a question will never have occurred to some people: there has always been a dog at home, or a cat, or maybe rabbits or guinea pigs. So many households in the West include pets nowadays that it's salutary to note that a mere two centuries ago, when domestic animals were everywhere, pet keeping was almost exclusively the prerogative of the rich. Of course, increasing affluence has allowed many more people to keep animals as companions, but that alone cannot explain the massive surge in pet ownership in the last century. Survey after survey shows that people feel deep emotional attachment to their pets and think of them as "one of the family."

• Many of the "Stone Age" tribes whose way of life survived into the twentieth century kept animals as companions.
• A capacity to regard animals as friends and not merely as food may therefore be as ancient as our species. It has never become universal, however: lots of people feel no attachment to animals or inclination to keep them as pets.

• Any theory as to why pets are such an important part of many people's lives must take account of that fact.

I saw pets mainly as interesting and accessible animals,

• who had grown up with dogs, cats, and, at one point, an unintended greenhouse full of rabbits, introduced me to the joys of greetings.

• SENSITIVE NOSES :
• Theirs is a world of smelly information to which we humans, with perhaps the least sensitive noses of any mammal, are oblivious.

These animals as little people :

• Most owners treat these animals as little people, talking to them as if they understand what is being said. I seemed to do this as much as anyone else, despite being well aware that such comprehension was almost certainly impossible.

HUMAN Own brains have indirectly molded :

• The workings of our own brains have indirectly molded them, and now that we have largely liberated them from their former utilitarian roles, these influences are becoming ever more paramount

 Animals Are Quite Kids’ Best Friends:

• Their cuteness attracts us (well, most of us) instinctively: the features that kittens and puppies, and to a lesser extent adult cats and some dogs, share with human babies seem to trigger our protective and caring side.

• Some animals continue to straddle the line between utility and pure companionship.
• Dogs have served many functions, including hunting, herding, and guarding, thereby earning more opportunities to form bonds with individual people than any other species.

THE HUMAN RESEARCH AS ANIMAL SUBJECT :

• Anthropologists—to study the personal relationships that people have with animals and, to a lesser extent, that animals have with people

• Thus Anthrozoology has focused most on those types of animals that serve widely as companions: dogs, cats, horses, aquarium fish, leisure horses, and so on.

A few species provide only a modicum of companionship or at least Aesthetic :

• Aquarium fish have remained popular, but cage birds—once among the most popular household pets and now the province of specialists—have all but disappeared.

• AT A TIME in history when our need for cats and dogs as working animals has declined sharply, our urge to keep them is actually growing. Dogs and then cats are far and away the most popular household pets.

• Rabbits, cage birds, guinea pigs, hamsters, and assorted reptiles make up most of the other animals kept in British and American homes.

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• From an animal rights—and sometimes welfare—perspective, the latter may be an important distinction, but it is difficult to draw a hard-and-fast line, in terms of the emotional bond experienced by the owner, between a pet that lives in a cage and one that doesn't.