This is a interesting thread to me. I have an innate sense of feeling for animals. It hurts me deeply to see an animal lost, in pain, cry, just about any emotion I sense from them. Just the other day I saw a dead bird and I turned it on it's side as if to comfort it. I saw a worm trying to make it across the hot sidewalk and I picked it up and carted it off to the shaded cool grass. I think we as BPDers empathize with struggles, loneliness and pain because we ourselves live it on a daily basis. We also empathize with people who are also struggling.