Same, I have a dog and I love him a lot. After owning this dog for a while and seeing how smart he is, I would feel guilty owning another pet in the future I think.
Also, a question that I've had for a while is, if they actually don't have a conscious or if we just don't know if they have a conscious since we can't understand them. Recently there havebeen more and more studies that show that dogs are self aware. I think just the fact that they have different personalities and that they have favorite toys, foods, sides of the bed, etc. shows that they at are conscious enough to make decisions yk. How could we say that they're smart enough to choose what to sleep, but not how to live?
With the amount of domestication and inbreeding we have done to dogs, i doubt they will survive if they are not pets. I see that as the most unfortunate part. I'm really interested in what the future in animal rights will look like, but tbh I'm not invested enough to participate lol
Haha yeah ik sorry