Anthropomorphization: Maybe we've always done it, but not to the extent as it appears to be taking over our collective consciousness in the 21st century. The attribution of human form or personality to things not human in the case of small animals has seen an expansion of the pet industry to something which would have been inconceivable 30 or 40 years ago. In parallel, the place of the horse in society has diminished, since the invention of motorised vehicles at the turn of the 20th century. Horses became less and...