This topic was brought up elsewhere on this forum and deserves it’s own thread. I was asked to provide sources to some of the statements I made on that other thread. For those who want specific references, it’s easy enough to simply type “do dogs and cats get angry and retaliate” and dozens if not h…

[quote=“Prissie, post:32, topic:78020”] will start a new thread on this topic and provide from links to various sources. [/quote] So you stated you will provide the sources but then tell us to look it up ourselves. Or is that what was edited out by the moderators? Otherwise, why bother with a n…

This is all accurate based on modern understanding of dog and cat behavior. In addition, the guilty look that some humans use to rationalize that the pet understands they did something wrong beforehand is actually a fear response to to the anger/frustration they sense in you when you see an acciden…

[image] Prissie: and probably every other animal on the face of the planet do not possess the intelligence, complex emotions and thought patterns that humans do. They don’t get angry in the sense that they experience an emotional reaction to a perceived slight and subsequently plot some sort of …

Answering the question that is this thread’s title, I’d say it takes a certain measure of human arrogance to insist that humans “know” something unknowable to be a fact. We do it a lot in spite of a long history of getting facts wrong.

What I specifically asked about was the [image] Lack of support from THS taxonomy that categorizes depression as a basic emotion and anger as a higher one that requires a developed level of thought. I don’t think anyone on the other thread said that animals [image] Prissie: possess the i…

I had a male siamese cat that was very demanding. He slept next to me pretty much every night. In the morning, he’d get up and start heading out of the room, looking at me while he was walking. If I didn’t get out of bed, he’d walk towards the wall, turn around, look right at me and that little s— w…

My little porker used to get on top of the bookcase headboard of the bed, then jump straight down onto my stomach so I’d come wide awake, jumping up & gasping for air…and he’d keep going — off the bed & out the bedroom door, where he’d be sitting in the kitchen next to his food dish, waiting for me …

[image] MaggieUU: So you stated you will provide the sources but then tell us to look it up ourselves. Or is that what was edited out by the moderators? Otherwise, why bother with a new thread? Here’s a good source to get you started. Do Animals Get Angry? The Science of Animal Emotions - B…

[image] MerryPuppins: And yet: The article you quote seems to support my point on two levels. The first is that these crows are being attributed a characteristic that is human-like in nature that does not exist (anthropomorphism), and the second is that animals react in response to a threat…

Great article, thanks for sharing. While it’s interesting reading, it doesn’t reveal surprising information and certainly nothing that makes @OnTheRoadAgain post, the one which triggered this discussion, invalid, particularly in a casual context as this forum is. What they say, basically is that …

Do dogs, cats, and other animals get angry, retaliate, hold grudges and "snub" their owners?

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Newpetlover 29 June 2026 09:08 14

I never said depression is an emotion. I was just surprised by this statement:

But, anyway, it seems you have finally got my point

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Do dogs, cats, and other animals get angry, retaliate, hold grudges and "snub" their owners?

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