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4) Why did u can feel animals (read: dogs, cats, monkeys, birds) as family members? If you do that, then why you put all those animals in a level that they shouldn't be...
When you get home, and have a cat to soothe you, to play with you, to interact and be satisfied with your presence. In time, the animal itself grows to comprehend your very emotions and signs, something even your family cannot. They are capable of understanding and reacting to aggression (When I was a kid, if my parents were angry at me and started talking to me in an aggressive tone or started to hit me, the first thing they saw was the cat running full steam towards them with its claws ready. And the fact that both human and animal have the ability to attach and bond together is one of the deepest things I have ever experienced (The fact that even with me being physically much larger than my cat, my cat recognized my youth and acted basically as she acted to her own cubs, licking and cleaning and defending them when possible). The fact that they could go angry with us for a period of time and then forgive, and many other human related feelings which allows humans to connect and care about these animals.

As such I value the dignity and well being of these animals as much as those of human beings, and if I ever learned that someone had killed my cats, I swear I would go utterly berserk.