zooophagous:

The notion that an animal is incapable of feeling affection towards humans if they aren’t constantly infant like and servile is such a dumb bastard of a thought.

There’s really something infuriating about the notion that an animal lacks feelings because it dares to be independent or set boundaries for itself. There’s nothing wrong with an animal that doesn’t feel like being a living doll. Be it a cat or dog or horse or whatever. If the animal doesn’t respond to you, find a new way to motivate it. Don’t write it off as hateful or rebellious, that kind of clickbaity bullshit only sets back communication between people and their animal charges even further than it already is. It also makes behavior science in general look like bullshit, which is really unfortunate when the time comes to try and convince people to change a potentially harmful method.