9 Emotions Felt By The Neurotic Pessimist Puppy:

Humans aren't the only ones with anxiety...

1. After the cat takes her spot on the couch: ANGER...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY that an aggressive force will always win out over compromise.

2. After her owner leaves for work: SADNESS...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY that sadness is the emotional fate of all who live on this tiny spinning globe.

3. After catching a ball: HAPPINESS...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY that happiness is as fleeting as that ball's soaring flight.

4. After she eats her food, forgets she ate her food, then goes back to eat her food and there is no food: CONFUSION...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY that nothing is ever truly knowable.

5. After a long run with her owner: EXHAUSTION...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY that her youth has passed and there is nothing she can do to stop the inexorable march of time.

6. After performing a trick correctly: TRIUMPH...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY that she will never live up to the new standard she has set for herself and she will forever be fruitlessly fighting to regain the glory she once had.

7. After her owner farts: SURPRISE...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY that her owner noticed that SHE noticed and is now self-conscious about it and therefore their relationship will never again reach the towering heights of joy it once did.

8. After hearing thunder: FEAR...

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...followed immediately by ANXIETY about feeling FEAR, because it confirms her deepest suspicions that we all just creatures of instinct with no guiding principle other than self-preservation.

9. After hearing a strained tone in her owner's voice: ANXIETY...

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...followed immediately by CRUSHING ANXIETY.