[henry quirk]

All of Jim's citations come from 'For the Love of the Dog Blog'.

Not exactly the kind of unbiased source I was thinking of.

In all the stories cited: 'misinterpretation of circumstance', along with the unjustified attribution of human qualities to an animal, explains everything.

Please understand: these are some wonderful animals, but in not a single case did these animals do what they did out of 'love', unless, as I said up-thread, you want to generalize love to include 'familiarity coupled with good feeling coupled with physical pleasure'.