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Originally Posted by Apothos
A teddy bear doesn't have a personality, nor does it show appreciation or affection for looking after it.
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Taking into account dante's reply and your post to him, is any of that behaviour (food for interaction) different from owning a tamagochi egg? or a teddy bear with some sort of algorithm that demands attention.
TBH its more the nature of the relationship compared to human relations im interested in. I may be completely misunderstanding but it seems to be about reflecting attibutes that you'd like in a relationship onto a fairly generic feline. Do you break-up with pets? ie take them back to the store because they do object to you coming home late? that would perhaps be an indicator of fairly significant behaviroul differences between individual cats, as it is people seem to buy 'a cat' from a shop take it home and by some remarkable process 'get along'.
I think if you took all the cats in the world and just swapped them around people would still 'get along' with their new pet, mostly because its a one way 'projection relationship'