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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got my dog when he was such a little puppy...[b]as far as he is concerned, we are his parents, the only one he remembers, and he views us that way.[/b]  Also, the kids call us mom and dad, so referring to us by any other name will just confuse the dog, as I am sure that he associates those words with each of us.

I do refer to him as my furry child or my canine child or my non-human child, because I really do view him as another child that depends on me and that I bear responsibility for.  That doesn't mean he gets treated the same as the human children, though.  We always joke how he gets pissed off about how the human kids get all the good stuff and why doesn't he.  When "On the Basis of Sex" came out, we had a lot of jokes about how he was planning a movie "On the Basis of Fur".  I think we basically treat him like a dog -- he has a dog bed, isn't allowed on the furniture, only gets scraps from human food, doesn't generally go on vacation with us, etc.   But it's a pretty decent dog life, I hope.[/quote]

How do you know?  Did you he tell you this?[/quote]

You can 100 percent tell.  If he is sick, scared, hurt, etc., he comes to me and gives me the same look my kids do.  There are many examples from the animal world of cross-species adoption and animals imprinting on other species if they are raised by them from a very young age.   It’s not an unusual thing.  You seem to me implying that beings can only communicate verbally, which runs contrary to our understanding of mammalian behavior, as well as early human development and even communication between people of different linguistic backgrounds.[/quote]

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