[susannah59]

We’ve been way “Disney-fied.” A lot of people think the world is a Disney movie, an amusement park, or a petting zoo.

I’ve noticed that just about every wildlife program anthropomorphizes animals. (”The mother coyote is worried that she won’t be able to feed her babies.” Really? Coyotes worry? How do you know?) A lot of people seem to believe that animals really are people, too.

I find hogs to be scary, myself. I have a relative who was bitten on the face by a hog when he was a child. He was literally scarred for life, emotionally as well as physically. My ex’s late mother had an aunt who had one arm amputated below the elbow following a hog attack. And those were domestic hogs, not feral ones.

[RedMonqey]

"I’ve noticed that just about every wildlife program anthropomorphizes animals.”

I know what you mean. It used to be cute that these type program "anthropomorphizing" animals to make urban audiences better relate to animals in the wild but now it has reached to levels that animals ARE people.

Nope, they aren't

Mostly because animals have no rights(not like humans) and they do not recognize the rights of others.

Mammals do however, have "emotions" inbred in the mammalian part of their brains to care and feed their offspring. Whether this is "worrying" can be debatable.

When my father was a young boy, he was playing with a piglet which started to squeak. The mother sow heard it and charged my father and was on top of him and torn at his ear. His father came running and knocked the big sow off him.(No mean feat if you ever saw a adult hog.) My grandfather warmed Dad if he hadn't been there to get the sow off him, it would have killed him. My dad believed him and stayed away from playing with the piggies!

Our dad told us this tale at dinner one night after we told him what we were doing all afternoon. We were playing "rodeo' with a bunch of piglets.(Catching them and tying them up)

We found something else to do the next day.