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Are You An Animal Lover — Quick Test
Think you love animals? Take this quick test to find out if it’s true.
In a survey of 1,000 British adults, a whopping 85% classified themselves as ‘animal lovers’. Are you one of them? Take this quick test to find out…
It’s a cliché that Britain is ‘a nation of animal lovers’ so you might not find this statistic surprising but even in many other countries, I’m guessing the results would be pretty close. Many of us tend to pride ourselves on our love of animals and wear it as a badge of honour, a kind of status symbol proving we are good people.
As a society, we abhor cruelty and detest those who abuse animals. Cases of animal cruelty that hit the news headlines are met with howls of outrage and outpourings of righteous anger.
Yet, despite telling ourselves and others that we love animals and would never do anything to hurt them, many of us are deluding ourselves and lying to our closest friends. There are not nearly as many animal lovers around as we would like to believe.
The problem is that people even manage to fool themselves, by way of intricate mental gymnastics, that they love animals when, in fact, their actions belie the truth. It may very well be that you genuinely believe yourself to love animals, but is it really true?
