About dogs and other animals, does anybody think that dogs can have feelings?

All animals have feelings .

Only Christian anti Nature propaganda

has always professed that this is not so

so that people would feel better about killing them

and to give the false impression that people were more important than animals.

even trees have feelings

ANIMAL EMOTIONS

GRATITUDE

and i once rescued some gold fish from a certain death in a drying pond .

picked them out of the mud and put them in a pond with water.

I then sat by the side of the pond,What happened next was amazing ,all 6 of them came in front of me and jumped up from the water ,and then disappeared,Gold fish are not known for jumping out of the water.

SORROW

Elephants have a funeral when one of them dies ,with each elephant going to the dead one and touching it with his trunk to say good bye,

Dogs can die of sadness.

baboons have a very strict social orders .as do most apes and monkeys,they can do things for revenge and even for humour,

Memory

Killer whales have brains larger than us ,and they can see 4 dimensions ,we only see three,and they can remember certain people that they know for many years after ,so do Grizzlies,and Dolphins

PLANTS,Fear

some information indicates that plants do have feelings,emotions and maybe even intelligence.

The north American Indians ,dance around a tree singing that they are going to kill it,they then quickly turn around and chop its neighbor down,taking it by surprise.

this suggest that they believe the tree has feelings.

There once was a famous experiment,whereby 7 people walked into a room where there was a big plant,that was wired up to a lie detector.

One of the people had a knife and cut some parts of the plant.

then later when the people were brought before the plant again,the lie detector gave a violent leap in its readings ,when the person with the knife was brought before it.

the same experiment was done with trees and in all cases the same result.

so who says who has feelings or souls

Not every animal has feelings.

Ask yourself - what are emotions? From an evolutionary perspective, they are a guidance system for behavior. They influence what actions you will take or avoid taking in the future, based on (generally) what is good for you or your kind, or bad for you or your kind. Evolution will not select for adaptations that an organism can not use. Something with no changeable behavior, like a jellyfish, would not benefit from being able to feel because it could not change what it does.

So, in order for feelings to be relevant at all (and naturally selected for), the organism must first have behavior. Most animals fit this category, but not corals, sponges, etc. Second, the animal must have a nervous sytem capable of generating, relaying and processing complex signals. It isn't enough to say that if a worm twitches when put on a hook that it "felt" it. Detection of harm along the body isn't the same thing as running that input through a complex brain and interpreting the data as "pain". It is easy to see that higher animals such as dogs can feel, and we can even use an MRI to map the activity in its brain as it happens, to prove it. Many of the structures in our own brains that we know are involved with emotions (like the amygdala) are also present in those species.

Trees can indeed respond to nearby trees being harmed, but this is because they have evolved proactive measures in dealing with pest damage - damaged trees releases chemical signals that trigger defensive reactions in neighboring trees (like starting to embitter their leaves). But you can't argue that something without a nervous system "feels", because there is nothing to process the reaction in an emotional context, and therefore no way to "have" that feeling.

If you kick an animal does it yelp? yes.That means that it FELT pain. Animals use body language,clicks and whistles,colors and other forms of communication. As for MARRIAGE.....They MATE.They are not religious and therefore do not need a ceremony. There soul purpose it to reproduce for the sake of continuing the species,emotions have nothing to do with reproduction. Only humans have complicated things with emotions.We believe we are better than or above nature....we are not. Nature always has been and will always be,long after humans are LOOONNNGGGG gone.

Some species, swans for example, may form a deep attachment brought about by the release of a hormone, oxytocin, in their brains (its the same thing that happens in humans). So sure some species can "fall in love" but most just hook up for a short time (dogs for example for reproduction) they tend to pal up with other animals as they like companionship and it helps form a pack... their safety net. They def. have fear and all of that sort of stuff though... some animals also dream and have nightmares.

Why not! They too have their own way of communication. They too have feelings. Watch at them when they are having sex. When a male dog moves around a female dog, she reciprocates her feelings. And a mother dog caressing her kids, etc.

in my opinion, i imagine those who're convicted of cruelty to animals ought to ought to stay by an same form of torture that they've inflicted on the animals. for instance, someone who fights canine ought to ought to strive against a guy to the shortcoming of life each and every nighttime earlier mattress. someone who starves and neglects an animal should be starved and neglected in detention center, and so on. for sure, it truly is basically wishful questioning. The criminal justice device is unhappy. quite the position I stay in Canada. people get little or no punishment for even homicide, no longer to point abusing a nasty animal. i'd basically opt to work out the justice device, in all international places yet quite Canada, beefed up somewhat. the position a violent crime is dealt with as very intense, even in the route of animals. two decades in detention center would fulfill me. at present, the longest sentence i have heard of the following is 4 months. :(

Haven't you ever seen a dog weep when che puppy is run over by a car?

all animals have feelings coz the have nerve cells which everyone should have which helps them feel the feelings...