Comment: In all fairness, I did

In all fairness, I did condition my dog to stay as I provide food and water and adoration. He digs on the adoration thing! I did travel to Utah to purchase my friend so I guess that that would put me in the slavemaster catagory. Although I doubt it has ever crossed my friend's mind that he is a slave...whereas human slaves are aware of the condition. Does awareness of the condition matter?

The next leap is that we are all slaves in one way or another, some aware and some not and the awareness of my servitude has had a detrimental effect on my overall sense of well being, that I did not have before I realized I was a slave... but that is a whole new can of worms!

I am not judging nor argueing with you to score an ego point, just thinking about and exploring the ideas that you have brought up.