How do humans physically look from the animal kingdom's perspective?  e.g. how does your pet dog/cat see you?
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Dogs see you only as another member of their pack. You are smarter and different but to them you are not a human, just a leader. That's why when you sleep next to your dog, the dog always has it's head toward your feet. The dog is watching for enemies in one direction and you are (as a member of the pack) watching for enemies in another direction.
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Animals is a fairly broad category.  Coral and Sea sponges are animals, but I would hesitate to say that you can insult one and hurt its feelings.  As we go into more evolved animals, we get to social insects, such as honey bees, which appear to not have highly developed emotional feelings, but they certainly do think.  They will carry their dead far out of the hive and drop them in the woods.  When a forager finds food, she comes back to the hive and does a complicated little dance involving distance traveled and the angle of the sun related to the hive.  \n\nNow when a lot of people think of the question "Do animals have feelings?"  dogs and cats are the first animals that come to mind.  When it comes to them, the answer is unquestionably yes.  if you are mean to a dog, it is going to be afraid of you for a long time.  After my dog would misbehave and I had to growl at him he would come to me an hour later and lightly lick my hand to appologize.  So yes, dogs and most likely cats have feelings.\n\nNow on to the least thought about animal, humans.  All humans do in fact have feelings.  Some seem to not have any, but all people have feelings at some level.
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No.\n\nFish can see in five colours. We can only see in three (although some women can see in four). Humans have a blind spot caused by the wiring of their retinas; octopuses do not. The resolution of human vision is not as good as that of hawks. A hawk's vision is about 20/5; they can see an object from about four times the distance of a human with 20/20 vision.\n\nAnd that's just the eyes.\n\nOur skin is not as thick and tough as a rhinoceros', so provides us no protection. It has no fur to keep us warm. We are not the fastest organisms. We are not the only organisms that know how to use tools (see Caledonian crows, some apes and beavers).\n\nAs far as evolution is concerned, if it survives, it's superior. If it doesn't survive, it's inferior. By that standard, all animals are superior, and by inference, all plants.
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I think cats and dogs are quite symbolic in the portrayal of the 2 sides of human nature lol. Thus sometimes I have cat days, where I want to be left alone and do my own thing, but i also have dog days where I'm sociable and silly and eager for company.\n\nI have a cat, but I would get a dog if the time was right ;)
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Cats can see as well as humans,and at times better.Cat vision is designed for detecting motion,useful for hunting.Like humans,cats have binocular vision,although not as well tuned as in humans.This means a cat most likely sees in 3-D,as do humans,which is very useful for judging distance.And there are many other facts at this site http://videoforcats.com/catvision.htm
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Eyes... you can tell alot about people through their eyes.
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there might be other creatures that we are not capable of seeing, some call them ghosts, or demons or spirits. We are limited the 5 senses to sense the world around us.\nWe know dogs can hear different frequencies that us, they also have different senses, some say they can see ghosts or other invisible things to us. \nImagine if all human didn't have eyes and could not see, we would have no consept of color, we would not know the difference between day or night. same thing now, if we had "other" senses we could've seen or sensed new and different things that currently we have no understanding to it.\n\nI think the ghosts interact with us and we sense them but we usually think it is our gut feelings.
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Humans like to think we are special and unique and different than our animal brethern, but are we?\n\n1. We share many characteristics, instincts, genetics, phenotypes etc with animals\n\n2. We use tools, but so do many animals, contrary to what was believed previously.\n\n3. We have languages, but the animals appear to as well, and appear to be able to understand some of language (dogs, horses, chimps). Some animals, like chimps, have been taught to use sign language and even type on computers, and some claim appear to use language creatively. \n\n4. Some animals have similar ratios of brain mass to body mass as humans, or even have better ratios. Many cetaceans might be as intelligent as humans, but not have the ability to manipulate the environment in the same way since they do not have hands. \n\nSo the entire premise of this question is a bit suspect, frankly.
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The only person who could answer your question would be either a person who can also see ghosts, or a person who has a ghost-detecting machine.  That person would then need to confirm that the cat/dog sees the ghost that the person is also seeing/detecting.
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this one cause a arguement. my ex-boyfriend thought cats and dogs have no bones in their tails. may not have been the answer you were expecting but i still think it's a pretty dumb thought.
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The Bible does not give any specific teaching on whether pets / animals have “souls” or whether pets / animals will be in heaven. However, we can take some general Scriptural principles and shed some light on the subject. The Bible states that both man (Genesis 2:7) and animals (Genesis 1:30; 6:17; 7:15,22) have the breath of life. The primary difference between human beings and animals is that man is made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). Animals are not made in the image and likeness of God. Being made in the image and likeness of God means that human being are like God, capable of spirituality, with mind, emotion, and will - and - have an aspect of being that continues after death. If pets / animals do have a “soul” or immaterial aspect, it must therefore be of a different and lesser "quality." This difference probably means that pet / animal “souls” do not carry on after death.\n\nAnother factor to consider in this question is that God did create animals as a part of His creative process in Genesis. God created the animals and said they were good (Genesis 1:25). Therefore, there is no reason why there could not be animals on the new earth (Revelation 21:1). There will most definitely be animals during the millennial kingdom (Isaiah 11:6; 65:25). It is impossible to say definitively whether some of these animals might be pets we had while here on earth. We do know that God is just and that when we get to Heaven we will find ourselves in complete agreement with His decision on this issue, whatever it may be.
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Yes.  All animals have feelings, they aren't as strong or  prominate as humans but they feel some emotions.  For example cats.  When I was a kid we had two cats named precious and rocky.  And everday when I left for school they would stand with me until the bus came.  Then when I would come home they would be waiting for me.  Other evidence:\n\n-Elephants bury the bones of deceased\n-They adopt abandoned baby elephants after their mothers die\n-Cats nuture each other, I've seen our cats clean eachother\n-Dogs are loyal and have saved others lives
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My dog definately knows when I am in my pain (probably cause I am grouchier than usual). He will get in my lap or lie down with me and kiss me or lie right on my shoulder. He gives me this look that just makes me laugh. I do think and studies do show that pets help with healing
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For fun, curiosity about what they look like from a different angle?
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It's not true.\n\nMost animals don't have much in the way of eyes at all, of course, but you're probably more interested in vertebrates.\n\nMost vertebrates have very good color vision.  The primary exception is mammals.  (Snakes are also an exception, for similar reasons.)  We got a bit shafted because our ancestors in the Mesozoic (age of dinosaurs) were all nocturnal.  Nocturnal animals don't really need color vision (black & white works better in the dark), so our ancestors mostly lost it.  Then the dinosaurs died off and mammals retook the day and have been putting color vision back together ever since.\n\nMammalian color vision is, thus, not quite as good as that of the rest of the vertebrates.  Cats and dogs do have color vision, but not as good as ours, and ours isn't as good as that of most reptiles.
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No. It's just their own way of showing their affection towards their pets. In fact, I have read that those people who are attached to their pets are the most loving, caring and sweet people in the world. :)
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Most mammals have pretty much the same nervous system set up as we do.  \n\nThere might be a few differences in the number and size of some of the major sensory nerve bundles.  Humans don't have much in the way of an olfactory nerve, while other critters would have much larger nerves to carry more information.