What would a modern world full of anthropomorphic animals be like?

I've always been a fan of anthropomorphic stories, probably because I've always been fascinated by animals and the natural world generally. It was Richard Scarry and Rosemary Wells when I was very young. When I was older, I graduated to such things as Brian Jacques's Redwall books and Robin Jarvis's Deptford Mice Trilogy. I've even found some decent anthropomorphic tales in adulthood; books by authors such as Stephen Baxter and William Horwood, and graphic novels such as Blacksad and Grandeville.



I'm wondering what our world would really be like if, instead of humans, we were upright, talking, intelligent, sentient animals. Imagine anthropomorphic animals living in a modern setting. What habits or interests would we have? What new businesses might there be? What would our history, faiths and politics be like? Would the world be better or worse? Jacques and others have dared to speculate. Perhaps you can too.What would a modern world full of anthropomorphic animals be like?
While anthropomorphic animals could easily be a substitute for humans in the modern world, "zoomorphism" would be a more appropriate conversion as it images "humans as animals" and works pretty much the same way.



Since different species have different needs, habits and interests, it is hard to answer your question.

Humans tend to stereotype certain kinds of animals as having select human-like personalities (i.e. cats are selfish; dogs are friendly).



You would probably have to appropriate certain species for certain people as according to their personality to give a more realistic "personification" effect.



Anthropomorphic animals might worship human-like gods (in replacement for any animal deities that humans may have preyed to in certain cultures in the past), or perhaps humans didn't come into the equation and say, "God" is a "Dog" (reverse letters)?What would a modern world full of anthropomorphic animals be like?
Furry.