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I'm sure that any animal unlucky enough to be under the will of people are.. My friends dog looks very shifty at times.. Especially if its done a poo. I doubt that in the wild many animals experience guilt as a side effect of pooing.
People love to anthropomorphise their pets. But keep in mind that the most advanced primates, besides us, have no more mental capacity than an average human 2 year old. I love animals. I majored in biology. In everything I've ever seen, guilt is beyond them. Anyway, domestic animals have developed over time to be very good at manipulating humans. That's what you're seeing. They're just showing their submissiveness when you seem to be acting all alpha about that poop on the floor or whatever. They don't get it, but they know their place and what they have to do to keep the pack leader from biting.
Well when my dog did something wrong she definitely knows it and kind of gave us a worried look. We never ever beat her for doing bad things or anything, she just knew it was wrong. Once she gave Me this look when I walked into the house and I later found that she had got into a package of toilet paper and ripped it all up and it filled the hallway. Haha it was very cute , I miss honey she was such a smart dog <3
That doesn't make sense as ALL animals that have been "domesticated" have wild ancestors.
As for "completely instinctual," got science? Apparently not. Other (note I say "other" as humans are also animals as well) have culture, planning and abstract ability, and manufacture and use tools. That is NOT "completely instinctual." Humans have for too long ASSumed that we are "special" and "unique" when in fact we are not. We've tried to deny that other animals also have many of the same abilities we have, but to different degrees. And of course the REASON humans came up with these self-serving assumptions is all too clear: if you marginalize another being, you can more easily justify exploitation and abuse (this applies to other humans as well as to other species).