• AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yeah, but, “empathy coughing” would be low on the list of my Occam’s razor responses. That’s like… good dog, but at the same time, why did you cost me a lot of money dog. They just exercising empathy but don’t know how.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      I’m sure if you brought your dog to the vet and they said “maybe it’s only faking being sick to fit in” you’d say “what the fuck is wrong with you, run some tests”