Also existence itself is best described, in a broad and literary sense, as Lovecraftian. Don’t think about anything too hard. Especially your own perception of reality, or place in reality. Or... reality. Just don’t think, maybe. That’s safest.
But yes I am absolutely capable of ignoring that and going "wow aren't those flowers pretty" and do it all the time.
Yes, there is plenty of horror to go around, but we humans sometims like to fixate on it, amplify and imagine it somehow absolute, fetishize it. Animals don't live in constant horror, it's pretty obvious (and surely their cortisol levels are not constantly through the roof), they just don't fixate on all that stuff. One day, they'll probably experience agony and death, but so what, it's all part of life. That doesn't make them less conscious really, but in this case just more sane than a lot of us humans.