I do hope that the fine line between what animals' reactions are and anthropomorphism isn't blurred any more than ...ah dang it. Too late.
Consider that animals have been observed in "natural" and "domestic" environments forming social bonds, displaying behaviours of individual recognition, and perform such actions as fight-or-flight, mate attraction rituals, infidelity, and playfulness, it's not so unusual that vertebrates at least generate and make use of chemical signals fully similar or identical to that of humans.
There's a woman named Temple Grandin who has made very humane slaughterhouses.* She was able to design and produce slaughterhouses that are humane and that reduce the anxiety of the animals before they die quit a bit.
This is a bit better, actually, than those methods of slaughter that are religiously based.
Ah, well, anyway. Animal feelings. Okay. Curious things. Curious things indeed.
(For more information, as Kittynh. She's a big fan.)
