Promoting 'Humane' treatment of 2D animals

[Ashim]

My mother has a dog and I live at home. Five year old Staffy. Why do you ask?

Your statement about dogs' emotions seemed odd to me. I agree that humans project emotions onto their pets (just as they do to other humans) but pets still have their own emotions too. Usually people who have pets will attest to the pets' own emotions and personalities, so I thought maybe you didn't have pets.

I'm not sure if dogs/cats have emotions. I mean sometimes I'm not certain that my wife has them.
Feelings, yes for sure, but emotions?
That would infer the ability to self reflect.

From the wiki defintion:
"emotion is the generic term for subjective, conscious experience.... "