[rquote=2615271&tid=148321&author=karezza]Someone told me animals feel pain.
I don't believe them. Do you?
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They have a different pain stimulus, reaction and adherence to humans. A pain for animals can be bearable while for us it includes an intelligent and emotional response.
For instance, when a Dog responds to love and companionship, it's based upon an autonomic response from their time as pack members and used by tribes during the stone age.
We fed dogs, we gave them a place to say and the domesticated habitat has been a part of them for... a very very long time now.
It's the same for all animals. Basically operating on an autonomic basis or responding to stimuli - the level of that response is based upon the need involved. For us, humans, since we have a cultural, emotional and biological need as well - pain means so much more to us than animals.
So when people say animals don't feel pain - they don't feel pain like humans do.