Growing up I kept getting told “treat animals like animals and humans like humans. Animal can never be human” — roughly translated from Hindi.
It always felt strange to me. I never got to bond with any animals when I was a kid because that’s the way everyone in my life growing up was like. It’s the exact opposite of my relationship with Cedar. #dogsofcoso #truestory
Had an inverse experience: when I was a kid I spent some years in an abusive household. I had a dog named Sheba, a half-husky. When things got bad, she'd sneak in the house, find me, and lay beside me, usually putting her arm over me, and she'd stay until I went to sleep. Usually got scolded for sneaking in, but it never stopped her.
So, in my experience, humans can be the animalistic ones and animals can have the good soul. It was enough for me to joke that a dog helped raise me, at least. 😂