>>8724913other people don't have the psychic superpowers to tell whether an anonymous poster on a Japanese manga forum loves his dog as a pet, or thinks his dog is a fully sapient furry baby who will one day go to college and help clean the house, only to commit suicide when "furbaby" refuses to stop shitting on the carpet
lacking knowledge of your actual thoughts, assumptions must necessarily be made, based on past experience
when people assume you're a mentally derranged psychopath because you have a pet, it says a lot about the usual crowd they associate with