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Originally Posted by Scott McD
You obviously have no clue. We have had 3 rescued cats here before. 2 were treated cruely by previous owners. They don't act, behave, and do the things around the house you would expect from a 'normal' treated cat. One of the cats took approx 2 months before it trusted anyone. It always waited one of the cupboard doors because it thought it should be locked in it all day, like it was before. Even though we never ONCE put it in there.
Do you think they have a short memory span or something ??
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Cats and dogs do not have the same range of emotions that humans do. They don't lay around and feel sorry for themselves or their circumstances.
Yes, they can be conditioned to fear among other things, and it may take a long time to remove that conditioning, but it's not the human emotions you seem to think it is. Let's try to remember, cats and dogs are not humans and don't have human emotions.
It has nothing to do with memory span. Animals neither sit around remembering the good times nor lamenting the bad. Please, that's what humans do.