why animals

When we got on to the topic about animals in class the other day, it got me to thinking. animals really do know what we are felling when we are sad or sick, or gone. they dont know why we are gone, and i am sure that for a second or two they probibly really miss us, but then they move one. they just probibly think that we will be coming back.
it was interesting however that we got on to that topic considering we were talking about something completly different. but that just goes to show how interesting the relationships between animals and humans is. We are so close together with them, but still so far away.
When i see my animals doing something really weird, but they tend to do it all of the time, it makes me think of what they are thinking when they are doing what it is that they are doing. there has to be some sort of purpose for it.