r/aww • u/thetinydancer1 • 7h ago

Our Pomeranian plays Bruiser Woods in Legally Blonde. She waits for her cue, then walks onstage all by herself

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u/MothmanIsALiar 6h ago

Anthropomorphize is a nonsense word because humans are animals.

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u/Cactuas 6h ago

It's not nonsense to point out that animals are usually not experiencing certain situations exactly as humans would. We are all animals and we all experience emotions, but it's a leap to assume dogs experience the same emotions as humans do, just as it would be a leap to assume a cat experiences the same emotions as a dog.

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u/MothmanIsALiar 6h ago

I think its silly to assume that emotions are new rather than an integral part of the evolutionary experience. I have emotions. Chimps have emotions. Why wouldn't squirrels have emotions? We all have a common ancestor.

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u/ColdCruise 5h ago

But we are able to process and understand emotions in a way that no other animal can. We experience them differently because of this.