Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26955524-20161126192429/@comment-25936766-20170226222920

ChishioKunrin wrote: Animals do, indeed, feel negative emotions. At least, it's certain that mammals do, anyway. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to develop PTSD or separation anxiety, and they wouldn't be able to grieve themselves to death. .....Not all mammals. Ones who can include elephants, mice, and dogs. Cats maybe, but far more rarely if so.

However, generally they don't even become traumatized, because they lack sapience. They basically don't give any damns for long, they're like children in that regard. If anything traumatizes them, it's pretty much always physical.

As for "grieving themselves to death".......what? Never heard any of that ever happening, ever.

Besides that, like Lucas points out, Ozpin's tale doesn't make much sense. Humans were also created by Steve, Lord of Darkness, yet the Grimm actively seek them out. Grimm supposedly were meant to destroy life, but even in V2 we were told they ignore animals most of the time.