Is it true that all of our pet animals think that we're their parents?
When we raise a baby animal as a pet, does it spend the rest of it's life in the mindstate of a juvenile... We feed it, look after it & care for it's every need. It will never need to fend for itself.
Will it never mature into an adult (in mind), and only it's body grow old?
2007-10-08 23:17:14 · 7 answers · asked by Xerces 5 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Animals don't look at things the same way. For instance, dogs have a pack mentality and look to owners for leadership, not parenthood.
They all get smarter as they age, learn the best way to survive in their environments and develop very specific preferences about how they live their lives within their physical boundaries. So of course, they mature in mind just like an animal in the wild would. They simply have a lot easier time finding food.
When you start treating animals as if they are simply small children, you have behavior problems and wrong expectations. They don't think like people and if you truly want to understand them, you need to understand the species and how it would live in the wild.
2007-10-08 23:45:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think it depends on 2 things the type of animal or breed it is beacuse some are more independent than others and also their individual personality which animals do acutally have!
My cat once she got to 2 years old she became independent would go out all the time got angry if you picked her up and used to like going hunting in that way she grew up but my other cat which is a very domestic breed a maine coon shes a big baby she wants to be with us all the time and she meows if shes hungry/scared/ sleepy expects us to do everything lol.
2007-10-08 23:27:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
animal's will always have mental development even if it is in captivity or domesticated..
It has something to do with their traits honed by thousands of years of evolution...
and also, not all animals think that we're they're parents. som do, but not all...
2007-10-08 23:29:51 · answer #3 · answered by Livin'TheLife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not parents, but servants. Especially my cat in the middle of the night, every night.
2007-10-08 23:27:45 · answer #4 · answered by mistymiss 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We need to love somebody or something. And expression of love is to care after that cute little something. Where it go?! I am agree that we produce a fully grown monsters (kids are included)
2007-10-08 23:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by Everona97 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
being most animals have the brain function of a young child, this is probably true
2007-10-08 23:21:02 · answer #6 · answered by cheri h 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
there animals they eat all the time..
2007-10-08 23:21:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋