Wow some very good posts! Argenta you are right, the thread started about bonding but went into emotion and perception and I think everyone here would agree that BP’s are very sensitive little guys. The numerous threads devoted to reducing their anxiety levels, helping them feel safe and relaxed in their environments so they will eat etc…show they are in some ways very susceptible to anxiety indeed.

Connie when you keep comparing humans to animals, I think you’ re projecting a bit. Intellect aside, humans vary a LOT in their ability to feel emotion, bond, empathize etc… We may live in groups and have some ingrained behavioral traits for survival purposes, but that is not the same as complex, deep emotion or true bonding. I am not just referring to individual sociopaths either, there are large cultures where bonding is at a minimum, empathy is rare and watching ones own small children starve to death while the parents eat their fill first is common practice.

I know this thread is not about the lack of human emotions, but when humans keep being compared to other animals it does factor in.