"It has changed just for a moment"

Mark Twain once noted that "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."

Clearly he was living in the pre-CAT PRIN era.

But seriously, why is it that the anthropomorphic urge achieves such great heights of absurdity in Japan? Perhaps they have decided that since we can not understand the inner lives of animals, we should adapt their outer lives to meet our own inexplicable needs?