From July 13, 2017
What's With Animals Posing As Humans?
There is a bank ("financial institution") here in Canada which seems to think that animals act like human beings and take hotel rooms and hang out in outdoor cafes.
Just recently I saw a television commercial for another company that uses the same premise. In this ad campaign is an Owl dressed in a bathrobe; a rather sporty and sharp bathrobe, but a bathrobe all the same.
I love animals, but find the idea of them trying to be 'us' absurd. Wild animals are too smart for that nonsense.
There's a name for this particular activity, which escapes me at the moment. The ad I hate is the one with animals and a phoney British accent. Is this supposed to give it a touch of class? It doesn't!
ReplyDeleteWe love to anthropomorphize animals. It's natural. Cats don't need the service. They are already little characters....in the human sense.
ReplyDeleteAs for accents: I know a cat that does a spot-on Cockney accent, and a Scottish brogue. It gets me every time; even if I can't always understand what he's saying. (Maybe this: "Feed me, you useless layabout!")