AS and Animal Welfare

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I'm definitely an animal lover, I have two cats and talk to them as if they are people and I'm sure they understand me.

I was sitting down watching television with my dad the other day and there was a programe on tv about injured animals, like pet rescue or something. I said " I feel more sorry when a animal dies than a person." my dad laughed, and just looked at me and said "I bloody dont." Maybe its wrong for me to feel that way but I can't help it.

If I saw a lost dog or something I would be the first person to bring it home and care for it untill it's owners were found, my dad on the otherhand would leave it.

I definitely care for animals more than people, they love you unconditionally, you dont have to explain yourself to an animal, they dont judge you and animals are not confusing, they have no underlying motives what they do and show is pure....unless I'm bad at reading animals too

I love most animals, that is, mammals and birds. I would more easily execute a human than slaughter an animal...

I have two cats who I'm very close to, and they to me, I believe. I'm not certain if I'm closer to any particular human. I love animals of all kinds, and often wonder whether I should really kill flies. However, I'm very much a realist in the sense that I believe humans evolved to be omnivorous, and therefore we should eat vegetables AND meat. I've come up against something of a hard prejudice against vegetarianism because I don't believe we know enough about proteins/nutrients in meat and vegetables yet to determine that humans can gain all the particular molecular fuels that they need to be entirely healthy from vegtarian food alone. I believe if you kill an animal, it should be because you need it to eat, and I have no trouble with that because it is what I (perhaps mis-)refer to as the "natural order". I don't however condone the mistreatment or killing of animals for non-esculatory reasons.

I've been in love with animals my whole life. I just love them. I don't watch stuff like 'animal precinct' and that type of TV show because I go into a rage.

I'm the same way, I can't watch those types of shows. When it comes to eating meat, I'm ok with it because I believe that some animals are put here to provide us with food. If someone is going to hunt or fish, I think it's ok if the animal is going to be eaten. I don't like the idea of hunting or fishing just for the fun of it.

Yup me too! I can't bear cruelty to animals. I feel like killing people who hurt animals.

I've been an animal lover my entire life as well--my obsession is and always has been dogs. That said, I viciously disagree with Grandin over dogs--she really does not understand them that well from what I've read of her work, although as far as I know she's great with herbivores, and she committed what I tend to view a cardinal sin when she advocated breed-specific legislation (against Rotties, interestingly, and not the usual pitties). I want to be either a vet or an animal behaviorist--in large part because I'm dying to refute that 'white factoring = unstable temperament' thing Grandin asserted with a proper study over temperament correlations to coat color. Albinos come from an entirely seperate gene. Besides, if she is right, I want to know whether the link is to albino genes, dilute genes such as merling, or white factoring genes, any of which can cause a white-coated dog, although I suspect she just met one too many unstable albino dogs (she seems to focus a bit on albino Dobies) and anyone who's breeding for such an unhealthy coat color isn't going to be responsible enough to properly socialize and breed their dogs for temperament.

Ahem. I would guess that Aspies and auties tend to empathize more with animals because it's so much easier to 'read' an animal than it is to 'read' a human, and animals tend to have much simpler motives and be more 'honest.' Certainly that's the way I've always felt. I've never had to panic over whether or not my dog is angry with me and won't tell me--although that 'unconditional love' thing is complete bull, incidentally; animals won't truly love you if you mistreat them or don't care about them any more than a human will--and I always, always know how my dogs are feeling. Also, I would guess that the more developed senses of many animals would provide another way for Aspies and auties to empathize. I tend to be just as disgusted at certain scents, like perfume, as my dogs are, although I'm not nearly as enamoured with rotting squirrell carcass as they are.

I love animals too, especially cats and dogs, and wild animals too. It upsets me that there are so few tigers left in the world...we may not have any in the wild soon, and other animals are so rare too. Yet there is never an endangerment (if that is a word) of people.

Animals are just themselves, that's what I like, they don't pretend to be something they're not, they're just natural.

I have always liked animals especially reptiles. Sharks and other sea animals are of interest to me I want to be a zoologist, herpetologist or marine marine biologist

Yeah, I meant that you dont need to pay them compliments for them to love you, you dont have to pretend like everything is ok for them to love you and they love you for you. Obviously they wont love you if you mistreat them. I guess unconditionally was the wrong word huh, I just couldn't think how to say it at the time.

I love animals (I have 2 dogs and a cat ), and I can't think of any species that I really hate. I can't stand killing insects (if I find them in the house, I catch them and release them outside), and a few days ago I became almost distraught about accidentally killing a daddy-long-legs.

I love all animals, unconditionally (am also a vegetarian). Their thoughts are honest and simple, and they ask for very little out of life.

It makes me very upset to hear about an animal being harmed, but I really couldn't care less about most people. I suppose there's always the feeling that, on some level, the human deserved it.

Hate to get all technical on you all...but humans are animals....my least favorite kind as a group but animals never the less.

I like furry animals....more fur the better.

It looks like I'm the only person here who isn't much of an animal lover. I especially don't like dogs. They scare me.

I love animals. I get along better with Chico, than I do with anybody that I deal with offline. I can talk to Chico about anything and I know that he won't hurt me. I love it, when my little Furbaby cuddles up to me. I also feel emotional when animals die. I could care less about people dying, because so many people have jerked me around.

That's a horrible thing to say, even if it's meant as a joke. Many humans make some huge mistakes, but it's still very sad that the people that love them have to deal with losing them.