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How do you explain animals getting depressed? Animals do get depressed. Go on. How do you explain sad dogs, or mad dogs. Dogs have a will. You want to say it's conditioning, what the fuck do you call the human being's "Learning". You were spanked when you stole candy from the store, now you don't.
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Dogs have brains. A chemical defect or imbalance in the brain has the ability to cause damage, which can result in mental illness. Humans have brains. Same situations apply. Thought processes in the brain are in no way related to two different species exhibiting similar mental disorders. Just because there are crazy dogs and crazy people, we're the same?
Dogs cannot think or comprehend on the levels humans can. They lack reasoning skills, and the ability to logically compare one situation with another. They can associate actions, but they cannot comprehend complex mental tasks (ever see a dog play the violin?)
For all intents and purposes, a dog will love its owners. It will liken itself as part of the family, and would do anything to protect them and to show them love. "Freeing" a dog would be analogous to me throwing you out of the house and saying you could never see your family again. Hardly a constitutent of "freedom".
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