I'm sorry the punishment phase on your dwarf gourmai didn't work out as well as you'd hoped, like it had for your uncle's bad fish!
Yes, I think our animals make us angry, just like children anger their parents sometimes. My parrots can anger me if they keep screaming loudly when I'm trying to watch TV or talk on the phone. My Eclectus likes to tease the Quaker until she screams, then he tells her, "No, no, no!" What a brat! My Tonkinese cat angers me the most of any animal I've ever had. He chases and attacks the Bengal on a daily basis, upsetting her to the point of insanity! I get very, very angry with him. But I also happen to love him best out of all the animals - mischievous little devil that he is! His worst punishment is the squirt bottle of water. Sometimes I chase him all around the house screaming and squirting water at him. Then he's very lovable and subdued for a short time!
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