While I agree, anthropomorphizing is still a problem when it comes to relations with animals. I mean we are a wee bit special and we tend to expect too much from other animals. They really are simplier beasts in comparison.
But then again sometimes we can't explain how or what we feel to ourselves, let alone what other fellow humans do. So I belivie it is presumtious to say "animals do not have emotions like we do!" or "they do!". The best we can do is being "optimistically cautious" I says!
Edit: also the article is a great guide on how to drive your cat insane.
All I know is that when a cat walks his paws up my leg, insistent that I grasp him under the armpits and lift him into my arms, and subsequently puts his paws over my shoulder and purrs at the top of his lungs once I indulge his wishes, he derives some form of succor from my having been there; and that is no small thing indeed!
But then again sometimes we can't explain how or what we feel to ourselves, let alone what other fellow humans do. So I belivie it is presumtious to say "animals do not have emotions like we do!" or "they do!". The best we can do is being "optimistically cautious" I says!
Edit: also the article is a great guide on how to drive your cat insane.