• Severed_Fate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Another interesting question is what will be your reaction if in those five minutes your pet say they hate you for no reason

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      1 year ago

      I have had many pets and currently also live with two feisty forpus parrots. The female sometimes bites me (as every forpus owner will recognize) and i know very well why she does it; i am touching her aviary to clean, or to provide food or toys. It’s not that she hates me, but she is incredibly territorial. And i fully respect that, because i understand her. It’s not personal at all. She is learning though, nowadays she hardly ever bites anymore and she is starting to inhibit the impulse, for instance if she notices i didn’t want to touch her stuff but merely wanted to offer her a treat.

      (But if a pet would tell me they hate me, i would want to know why and fully respect it)

      Btw, i think chances are bigger that a pet would tell us: i’m so bored for a big part of the day, because i can’t read or scroll on a phone, rather then tell us they hate us…

      Edited to add: parrots are not really domesticated yet. It’s only been a couple of generations since they live in our homes, compared to for instance our dogs.

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        1 year ago

        My dog is old and going deaf and blind. Anytime I leave him he whines, I had to leave him with a friend for about a week to attend a wedding and apparently he whined the entire time. I don’t know what I did to deserve this kind of love but I know he doesn’t hate me.