Lonely axolotl?

[sara]

<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>Quoting Roy van Grunsven on Friday 19 January 2007 - 09:38 (#POST118208):</font>

It's really amazing that you know what they think.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

But those axolotls are that persons pets, and as it has been pointed out, they have 'tiny brains', why shouldn't that have a good idea what's going on in it, beings, you know, they're probably with them every day?
If we can't Anthropromophosise our animals a lot of fun goes out of keeping them, as long as the animals are not being hurt, where's the harm of thinking highly of them?

 

[natashja]

can we all agree that al emotions are in fact just responce to chemicals and hormons in the brain, as it reward us for behavior that is good for our survival ?
and if we carry this thought throug why should aaxies not have simular responses they may not be aware of the felling name but im willing to bet that they " feel good " when they do something that will insure there further survival and breeding.
and as far as what they will or will not do in the wild this no longer applyes to the axelotls that we have in our homes as they are the result of selective breeding of speciment that are pleasing to the breeder in color and behavior and this brings me back to the chemical responce in the animals brain.
if you are trying to breed a pet you will not breed the solitary (reade natural) animals who fight you breed the sweet cudly ones who is piling in the corner the animals who would have died in the wild because of lacking self preservation. and if these "defective" animals have been bred to be group oriented then yes they can be "lonely"

and as sara writes
If we can't Anthropromophosise our animals a lot of fun goes out of keeping them, as long as the animals are not being hurt, where's the harm of thinking highly of them?