YES! I love animals and I cannot be more than a casual acquaintance with someone if they do not respect animals as well. It's different if it's just ignorance, such as MIL who is old school and doesn't really understand puppymills and things like that. But someone such as your co worker who says he thinks dogs are disgusting, I could not be friends or even respect someone like that very much.
And if someone cares for animals very much, they get extra brownie points in my book.
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