tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post3310653499254466172..comments2024-03-19T07:27:06.216-04:00Comments on VOTARIES OF HORROR: More about Animal PsychologyKatherine Woodburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364517253667798449noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-501447998722584132010-03-04T14:37:31.672-05:002010-03-04T14:37:31.672-05:00Some cat (and deer) evolutionary psychologizing.Some cat (and deer) <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1771" rel="nofollow">evolutionary psychologizing</a>.Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182644885948983861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-6200852296293004362010-02-28T11:34:53.003-05:002010-02-28T11:34:53.003-05:00When I was younger, we adopted a cat that was lost...When I was younger, we adopted a cat that was lost in the woods around our house. We didn't keep him long, because this cat was SCARY. For one he was HUGE- He stood perhaps a foot an a half, and was perhaps 2 1/2 feet long from head to tail. The creepiest thing though, was that he could speak. Really. That cat would go to the door and howl "Li-me-ooowwwt" And the occasional "Nwooooooo!" when things weren't to his liking. I can't remember what happened to him, but I've always been a bit freaked out by cats ever since.Mike Cherniskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10977194295402105318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-24317569025519598492010-02-27T18:16:06.052-05:002010-02-27T18:16:06.052-05:00I entirely reject the notion that animals feel aff...I entirely reject the notion that animals feel affection or love. This is the ultimate in human projection. I think it entirely likely that domestic animals have, in small part, evolved to respond to this human projection. In other words, the cats and dogs that expressed what was perceived as "affection" stayed inside or where it was safe, the others were discarded. Over time that would clearly have an evolutionary effect.<br /><br />Thing to remember is that ANY animal till turn on you if the situation demands (and will do so in hideously nasty ways like eating you when you're not quite dead yet.)<br /><br />It continually amazes me to see people think they have fully tamed an animal, especially a wild animal (and am greatly annoyed when the "animal rights" crowd attribute some sort of thoughtful scheming when the animal "goes rogue.")Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450897654318345683noreply@blogger.com