sure

Of course they do. It's part of being alive.

Yes, they do.

Cool read. Crows respond to a human pointing by looking in that direction; dogs reunited with their returning military owners respond by jumping, yipping, and licking the owner quickly and repeatedly; plants have been recorded "screaming" when a leaf is torn off. So I believe anything living/growing has feelings on some level.

Your article was interesting; however, it makes one sad to imagine the suffering man inflicts on animals and the planet! ??

At what point in the development of humans, from fertilised egg cells to adults, do they acquire feelings and consciousness? I think it is the same with animals in the evolutionary development. I would even venture, that plants have them at some level. I regard some animals as I would a 2/3 year old child

I wonder if octopus grieve.
[bbcearth.com]

"There are essentially four components to death that psychologists have identified: Irreversibility, non-functionality (the dead do not respond to anything), causality (the biological basis of death), and universality: all living things will die, including yourself.

“When, and in what order did we acquire these components?” she asks. “To understand the extent to which non-humans possess any of these components can tell us a great deal about the evolutionary origins of our own cognition.”

Of course animals have feelings. The higher up the eolutionary scale, the greater the potential range of feelings.

I had this argument when I was in high school with a kid next to me. He went on and on for 20 minutes about how animals had no feelings, etc.

It finally occurred to me that perhaps, maybe, he had never had a cat or a dog. So I asked him if he has ever had a pet.

Without missing a beat, he said, "I had a worm once."

From observations, it is apparent to me that dogs and cats do. I had a cat given to me (years ago), that if, when I can home and did not go directly to the refrigerator and give him something to eat, he would tear into my legs with his claws. It was either kill him or give him away...opted to give him to a guy and gal I knew who wanted him due to his beautiful Grey fur and green eyes(he was a handsome devil). A short time later I heard the guy took him out and shot him due to his newly acquired habit of jumping into the warm, freshly laundered clothes basket and urinating. So in that case, that cat seemed to be expressing an emotion when he clawed my legs...anger...as did the guy who shot him for peeing in the warm clothes, fresh from the dryer.

We are animals and we have feelings, so...

Interesting. And disturbing.