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And Dino, your diagram speaks so much truth that I just crapped my pants.
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Because 99% of the time, off-topic conversations end after a few posts regardless of whether or not there is any moderator intervention. In fact the one that Havoc 'intercepted' was already finished by the time he got there.
Or they continue as a side-note debate alongside the main debate, as here.
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Firstly, one would need to take the likelyhood of a human falling in love with an animal (for genuine reasons other than publicity), then multiply that by the unlikely event of an animal making the concious decision to become romantic with a human.
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Was that supposed to make no sense? I think I can see what you're saying but ... damn maybe it's too early in the day for me to be thinking this hard?
I dunno. As far as I can see, animals express love in a purely survival driven way. You could say that, in a more complex way, so do we. But if you strip it all down, at the root of love is survival of a species, the human species. Animals such as cats and dogs will be affectionate toward their owners, because they know that if they do not show affection they don't get fed. Cats that get fed even though they've shown no affection will remain unimprinted if no other handling is made, which demonstrates that cats can learn the advantages of being affectionate. This kind of materialistic affection most probably associates with various emotions, E.G. happiness which triggers serotonin release, and over time probably develops into a sort of sentimentalistic, loving relationship, which has the advantage of reinforcing and making permanent this survival technique.
u make me laugh Kimon 
