g, you may know that i injured my arm and it very difficult for me to write. i'll be fine but it will take weeks.
i wish i could go on longer, but living together as a pack with our dogs, unusually so, has removed any doubt from my mind that animals can and do express a wide range of human feelings and emotions. we see it constantly -- joy, sadness, guilt, embarrassment, temper, sulking, etc., and of course unconditional love. we would love our dogs without these expressions and we have no stake in proving anything. yet it is there to see in so many unmistakable ways that it would be pure denial of what we see with our own eyes to think otherwise.
i'm glad that more scientists are recognizing this. i just wanted to make this point, but i will not be posting for quite a while. in case other posters read this, i want to thank them for their good wishes. jc |
