Don't you think it's wrong to call our four legged friends animals...?

Question

Just look at some of the humans around and they way they behave
perhaps they should be classed as animals

Answer 1

I agree, our four legged friends are reliable, trustworthy, and many other good things beside - not what one can say about all our 'human' friends.

Answer 2

Our four legged friends are animals, but I don't think it's derogatory to be called an animal. They are animals and I love animals and I think animals have rights - that is why I am a vegetarian - I believe they have the right to live instead of being eaten. I think what is needed is to treat our four legged friends (animals) with respect, compassion, dignity and love/friendship. Animals most certainly give us love, friendship and I think they do respect us.

I do think it is wrong to use the word "animal" to describe people that we think are behaving badly. When we do this, we are insulting our animal friends. I'm not saying that our animal friends understand this, but we do and then we think less of our animal friends - it's really a mindset, framework - how we judge people. If I want to say that a person is bad, I won't call him an animal - I would rather say he is a barbarian (an uncivilized person).

Answer 3

This is a marvelllous question and you are absolutely right. I have always said that wherever you live, there will always be animals in the street and I am talking about other humans! There will always be people who by ignorance, lack of education, impaired mental processing or whatever, will always act like animals and shame the very race we call the human race. I hate to admit this but my best friend for the past ten years has been a beautiful german shepherd dog .... she is always there for me and has always given unconditional love ..... perhaps we could all learn something from animals .......

Answer 4

Humans are classed as animals.

Answer 5

Scientifically humans are classified as animals. What separates humans from the Animal Kingdom as used in layman's language is the presence of a soul. If we are soulless then our "acts of free will" are simply reactions to input into our cerebral cortex.

Answer 6

my best friends got 4 legs don't ever trust those with 2 cos sometimes it's an insult to animals to class these in the same group

Answer 7

Humans ARE animals. We are more likely to call ourselves humans than animals because "human" is more specific, just like I would be more likely to call a cat a cat than an animal. Animal is just a wider classification.

Answer 8

Animal
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For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation).

?Animal
Fossil range: Late Neoproterozoic - Recent
Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and others.
Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and others.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758
Phyla

Subregnum Parazoa

* Porifera (sponges)

Subregnum Agnotozoa

* Placozoa (trichoplax)
* Orthonectida (orthonectids)
* Rhombozoa (dicyemids)

Subregnum Eumetazoa

* Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry)
o Ctenophora (comb jellies)
o Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones)
* Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry)
o Acoelomorpha (basal)
o Myxozoa (slime animals)
o Superphylum Deuterostomia (blastopore becomes anus)
+ Chordata (vertebrates, etc.)
+ Hemichordata (acorn worms)
+ Echinodermata (starfish, urchins)
+ Chaetognatha (arrow worms and Pterobranchia)
o Superphylum Ecdysozoa (shed exoskeleton)
+ Kinorhyncha (mud dragons)
+ Loricifera
+ Priapulida (priapulid worms)
+ Nematoda (roundworms)
+ Nematomorpha (horsehair worms)
+ Onychophora (velvet worms)
+ Tardigrada (water bears)
+ Arthropoda (insects, etc.)
o Superphylum Platyzoa
+ Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
+ Gastrotricha (gastrotrichs)
+ Rotifera (rotifers)
+ Acanthocephala (acanthocephalans)
+ Gnathostomulida (jaw worms)
+ Micrognathozoa (limnognathia)
+ Cycliophora (pandora)
o Superphylum Lophotrochozoa (trochophore larvae / lophophores)
+ Sipuncula (peanut worms)
+ Nemertea (ribbon worms)
+ Phoronida (horseshoe worms)
+ Bryozoa (moss animals)
+ Entoprocta (goblet worms)
+ Brachiopoda (brachipods)
+ Mollusca (molluscs)
+ Annelida (segmented worms)

Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Meta­zoa. In general they are multi­cellular, capable of locomotion, responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms. Their body plan becomes fixed as they develop, usually early on in their development as embryos, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on.

The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animal, of which animalia is the plural, and is derived from anima, meaning vital breath or soul. In everyday usage animal refers to any member of the animal kingdom that is not a human being, and sometimes excludes insects (although including such arthropods as crabs). The use of the word animal in law typically reflects the common pre-scientific use of the word, roughly equivalent to what modern biology would classify as nonhuman mammal. For example, wildlife laws commonly use phrases such as "animals, birds and fish."

The biological definition of the word includes human beings. Therefore, when biologists use the word "animal" they refer to all members of the animal kingdom.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Animals don't start wars against their own species or tend to wilfully neglect them. I've never met an animal that 'bored' me but since everyone has the power of speech but not everyone has something interesting to say I have met some very boring people.

The very hands and brains that enable some of us to be creative enable others to be catastrophically destructive.

Answer 11

Of course they should be. In case it hasn't occurred to you before:
we are all animals, albeit a species very good at changing their environment to suit themselves. A lot of the problems of humans stem from the fact that they consider themselves superior to nature and not part of it.