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Animals in general are capable of emotion and motive on some level, and also have some degree of self awareness.
However, i think people's reactions to these situations have more to do with preconcieved ideas about animals and humans than anything else.
Spiders are just as innocent as a cute little sharpei, but they are ugly as sin, so they get the reputation of being bad. plus many have poison.
if people were getting bitten and dying from poisonous sharpeis, public opinion would sway pretty quickly.
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