I agree with Karen (as I do most of the time ).

What is love? If your bf brings you flowers he may just treat you as the leader of the pack

In the last 20 years science could prove that animal societies show much more "social" behavior than was ever expected: e.g. in feral cat colonies, the cat mothers take care of the kittens together and "help" each other.

Of course a behavior like that makes it more likely that more kittens survive- so it is better for the whole group.

Pets have much more differentiated emotions than some of the strict old school behaviorists can detect. As long as nobody has a better name for it I call it love.

Filou says he agrees strongly