Why do people draw cartoon animals without trousers?

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Like I'll see this anthropomorphic cartoon animal or character on FurAffinity or some other website/tv show, wearing up to a shirt, shoes, scarf, hat, and/or other things, without trousers! This has been a topic that has been bugging me for a while, waiting for an answer.

I just find it weird that the person decided to draw it without any trousers because I find wearing trousers necessary and I just find it weird without them. Even with some furries having digitigrade legs that you can t fit trousers on, I still just find it weird. I don't know how to explain it. And one time someone told me that people don't usually depict animals with trousers. Well yeah, I know, but WHY do they not usually depict animals with trousers? Is it some sort of neural circuit that makes us think that way? Or what? Please answer.

Cartoon characters don't have to wear any clothes, unless they are human.

It's probably because covering our butts is one of the few things that separates us from the other animals.

People don't generally put trousers on real animals either.
I have seen a lot of dogs and cats with clothes on but none of them had their butt covered(other than a skirt).
It might have something to do with it.

Being a cartoonist myself who was heavily influenced by all the classic "funny animal" cartoons I saw as a child, I have no idea why this is such a big screaming deal. They're not humans, they're animals. If it's so offensive, then I guess we should go put pants on elephants at the zoo. Wow, can you imagine how much fabric you would need!? Plus elephant skin is like rough concrete, so pantyhose on the females would be out of the question.

Donald Duck doesn't need pants, he has feathers! I think I heard that years ago on an episode of Blossom. Daffy Duck has always been naked and no one complains about that.

What is this world coming to!? It's like you can't break the rules or use you imagination when making cartoons anymore. But that's whole point of cartooning, ignoring stupid trivial rules and logic and reality. If you want them to be exactly like real life, then watch live-action shows instead, although those are usually even less realistic.

I have to go now, and draw some half-dressed, barefooted, technicolored wildlife wearing fingerless gloves to soothe my brain...