Being Human: research into humanization of Animals

I read a paper entitled "We're a nation of pet lovers" By Ginger E. Blume, Ph.d. The paper focuses on Pets as they are the most effected. One of the interesting facts on the paper is dogs may be the ultimate social parasite, playing on human emotions and making us believe they have a range of emotions human feelings. Many people see their dogs as a in between species, half human half animal. Scientists say in the animal kingdom it is rare of one species to injects itself fully into another species life. 

Us Humanisation animals can cause many problems, such as the animals becoming dependent of humans. When animals are raised in captivity this problem can be devastating. When animals are raised in captivity to later be released in to the wild. if they become dependent of humans, they will died. Now a problem close to home, dogs are pact animals and Humanization can cause them to think they are in control. This has caused cases of master mutilation.