I'm getting this too - if I water / pet / harvest from my trees, the 'progress' bar does not appear - although everything else behaves as normal - i have to wait a bit before i receive the tree's fruit, and i still loose energy, gain mood, and I'm not able to interact with anything else while harvesting / watering / petting whatever.
If i leave my home and interact with the trees outside, it behaves as expected.
This sounds like a known issue - for the time being you can reload the client and that should fix your progress bars/animations. Not sure what the cause is yet but hopefully we'll have a fix in soon.