Pet Thinking Research Paper

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Have you ever wondered, What is my pet thinking? Do they even feel any emotion, or love toward me? Well i'm here to settle the little debates in you head to rest. There have been many studies, arguments, and yes, even experiments that have proven this theory to be….Correct! Now i am going to go over the reasons I have discovered that prove this thesis to be accurate, and true.

Now first we need to take a glimpse into the mind of an animal. Have you ever seen you animal when there very asleep. Well if you have you could probably notice that they make noises, or even move in their sleep. This is because something called REM sleep causes both humans and animals to go to sleep. Now the reasons humans don't make such a fuss in their sleep, as animals, is because humans have common sense, and animals lack that.

Now onto the more convincing part of this essay. You may of heard the saying to you your dog is a part of your life, but to your dog, you are their life. Now let’s dive into this phrase a little more. Now if you focused your life on one thing, you would devote your entirety to that one thing. Now step into the life of your animal,to them, you are that one thing. So of course the animal is
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There are many debats Online that try to create the illusion that animals can’t feel emotion, but there was one that really made me scratch my head. In this debate the person who is trying to disprove this thesis, here's is what they said;There is no doubt that such animals can be rewarded and threatened, but their behavior is no guarantee. Now There are several things I could say, but let me just say the main thing. I don’t even need to explain that when you threaten an animal, they don't come near you again for a while. I mean for god’s sake there have many cases on the news about animal abusers, and how the animal will neglect itself from the family. So if the animal didn’t have emotions, why would it do

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