All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.
Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.
The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.
No animal admires another animal.
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?
