Any other aspies not really interested in animals?

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I used to really like animals when I was younger but nowadays, I don't really care that much. I don't feel that close to most human beings or to animals either. I still really like cats, but nowadays even cats I could almost take or leave.

Honestly I care more about human suffering than animal suffering though neither of them bother me as much as they ought to. I guess I just feel kind of dead inside.

I like pets and petting zoo animals when am right next to them but otherwise don't think about them, and have never had/wanted a pet. Although might end up with an assistance dog, maybe. And know what you mean by that dead inside feeling and it bothers me too sometimes.

I wonder if that would change if you guys got pets. Not that I expect you to get one to satisfy my curiosity.

Liking animals or liking animals more than people is Aspie "trait" #5 out of 5,000 that I don't have.

I don't have much interest in animals either, I turn a blind eye to most animal suffering unless it impacts me, such as the meat i eat. I'm completely indifferent to their existence, i can pretend to like them if necessary, otherwise they're just objects to me. Sorta like decoration.

There's only two animal i have any feelings towards- mockingbirds and crows.
Crows behave alot like people, the only animal i have ever felt the deepest regret to after i killed one.
Mockingbirds on the other hand, I hate and would like to see them all dead, eradicated, preferably in the most painful way possible.

If i care about animals I wonder whether they will taste good...

I have pets, a bunch of goldfish, they're just decoration. and food... I ate one, just wondering if they taste good. they don't taste good.
I doubt if i get some other pet my views will change, i find all the regular meat monotonous and i want something a bit different... dog, cat, rabbit, snake, parakeet, parrot, finch... just to name a few things i'd like to taste. my mouth just waters thinking about it. I'm pretty sure the pet store will not sell me a dog if i plan to eat it...

What about hunting them? I like that.

I'm not much of a pet person, and I wouldn't buy one for myself. My family had them growing up.

I like animals well enough, and they like me.
Cats especially.

Feeling dead inside sounds more like existential angst to me than anything else.

To quote Buffy:
"I touch the fire and it freezes me. I look into it and it's black. Why can't I feel? My skin should crack and peel. I want the fire back!"

I couldn't be indifferent towards animals no matter how hard I try...as of late I even have a hard time eating meat a lot of times, since I am not entirely sure how it was farmed...I prefer meat that doesn't come from a factory farm or meat that has been hunted. I don't think killing animals for food is wrong, animals kill animals for food and it bothers me when a wild animal kills a human that invaded its territory and then the law enforcment or whatever goes and kills it....

So yeah I am fine with hunting for food, though I despise the idea of people hunting for sport.

To be fair, most sport hunters eat their kills, are staunch environmentalists, and keep down populations of animals like deer, which without careful culling will overpopulate, overgraze, and starve.
While this isn't true for all hunters it is for the vast majority.

Not that I'm into hunting.
I've never been and never plan to go.
However, it's important to fully understand the impacts of sport hunting, both positive and negative, before passing judgement on the activity, imho.

I used to have similar views to you on sport hunting.
Until I really looked at the activities & impacts and found that however one might feel about their activities because of the relative unpleassant & violent nature of some of those activities, they do in fact serve an important purpose and generally do more good than harm on balance.

It sucks when one's self-righteousness melts away in the harsh light of facts, but one has learned that these experiences are humbling & serve to temper one's arrogance.

I loved pets when I was little and was excited about having a cat when I was nine and ten and as I got older I lost interest and I am not much of an animal lover. I still loved my cat and never got rid of her and when she died, I was disappointed but I didn't cry or mourn. I don't feel the same way about them as other people do about their pets who are crazy over them and see them as their children like they are people.

I do like animals. I don't own any though.

The last one I owned was a little bird called Tooty Frooty.

If I ever was to own one in the future it would be either a dog or a sphinx cat.

I have even more difficulties getting along with animals then with people.
That people "assume" i will be like most everybody else and adore animals has caused me troubles. I am always being told by owners that I was the first one their animal bit, that that hissing the animal is doing when he sees me happens rarely if at all.

Me and children usually get along great

I like animals but I am not particularly fond of them. For that I don't feel so different from many NT.

I don't like most dogs, although it varies on a per-animal basis. It is not that I am afraid of them or hate them, but I often find them boring and a bit stupid.

I do like cats, and I would consider keeping one but I think it is too much work and responsibility (I enjoy travelling and would not know whom to leave it to).

When I was a child I had tropical fishes and I enjoyed looking at them and taking care for them, but I wouldn't say I felt much empathy for them. I found nd it interesting to watch them live and I really did my best to keep them healthy and happy because it is just the right thing to do for any animal you are responsible for, but for example if one died because of a disease I was not particularly sad.