A cat has nine lives, so you say. But does cat live to count nine? Yes. Once I read that cats can count. They can count seven. And only seven. Nothing more and nothing less. It does not matter whether that is true but what matters is that animals do have some senses like love, hate, fear. Because of these senses they too are endowed with emotional attachment with the human beings and their own species. They experience ‘experience’ also. We all have observed this or if we minutely observe, we can experience this. Only thing is that they cannot laugh! But they cry!
This is particularly true about domestic animals. Domestication is to say some kind of education imparted to them. When they are domesticated, they are actually educated. Might be owing to close association and intimate relation, they manage to learn a few things and they apply this experience if and when the situation demands of them. They also have joy and sorrow of their own which also they share with their masters and kith and kin. We have also observed the behaviour and mental acumen of the trained animals let alone the pet ones. So animals are just not dullards and we cannot take them for a ride. Intelligent Quotient (IQ) of theirs might not be high enough but their Emotional Quotient (EQ) is fairly even.
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