It'd take a lot for me to ban someone. I'm open to people agreeing on most stuff! Using 'gay' or 'rape' incorrectly after warnings might do it, or "radical right" opinions that clearly aren't open to debate... stuff along those lines would do it. Oh, and NWS pictures left in my comments would have to get people banned since they might get me fired!

if an animal is capable of actually angering me (i have a very long temper)

I've been sitting here trying to think of what an animal could do to anger me, and I'm coming up mostly blank. Peeing/pooping outside of the litterbox would annoy me, but I know it would be for some reason, not the cat doing it on purpose. Biting me would be bad, but again it would be for some reason -- even a "bad cat" would be biting for a reason, some abuse in its past or illness or something. Waking me up in the middle of the night annoys me, but again that's just young cat behavior.