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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 11:34 AM
Subject: Your dog does LOVE you !
To: Gene <Gene@630wpro.com>
From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 11:34 AM
Subject: Your dog does LOVE you !
To: Gene <Gene@630wpro.com>
YOUR DOG DOES LOVE YOU !
630 WPRO radio talk show host Gene Valicenti - thinking he was being oh-so-scientific - told his listeners this morning in so many words : Do not believe that your dog LOVES you ". Forget about sentimental slop " proof " that your pets do love you . Just consult a chapter in the work of that great biologist Charles Darwin : " The expression of emotions in humans and animals ". The fact that the higher mammals like monkeys, dogs, cats and HUMANS have evolved from common ancestor species would suggest immediately that animal emotions - like your dog's HAPPY face , your cat's HAPPY purring - are no more a FALSE appearance than any HUMAN expression of emotions . Does Valicenti think that a beloved dog's PAIN is an empty show ? Perhaps he is lacking in the very emotion which makes people LOVE their pets and FEEL their LOVE : we call it EMPATHY ! It does seem that something of ourselves did emerge from the " dumb" animal world . God was more generous with the LOVE emotion than some narrow minded humans think . Just observe with what PASSION a mother bear guards her babies. So people who think their dogs and cats LOVE them are not idiots ! Darwin or Saint Francis - Animals FEEL too !
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