hume- section 5- of animals

Hume says we all know there are a few similarities between us and animals. Such as the anatomy we know that animals have circulation of blood much like we do. Hume says animals and humans alike have the ability to learn many things from experience. In turn, learn its surroundings and know of fire, height, depths, water, etc. He says also humans and animals can be taught by a reward and punishment system. Children get a lollipop if they are good at the doctor's office. Dogs gets a bone if they perform a trick well. Both species learn if they do something good, they will be rewarded. Then hume says animals are also made with instincts, as are we. We sometimes have gut feelings about things and act upon them. If animals learn like us, infer things like us, and even have instinctual feelings like us, that makes us very similar species. Just because animals look different and don't speak (which I feel is contradictory, as seen in some of my other posts), we don't think much about then as being similar. But then again in a way, we do. We talk to pets, we care about them, give them food, and shelter. We actually do kind of treat pets as children, interresting.