No. I don't think that animals can think about thinking. Who knows? Maybe they can and we have no way of knowing but at far as our reality goes in this world at this moment I do not believe that animals contemplate peeing in the house in order to seek revenge for their owner leaving them for a weekend (with pleanty of food and water and someone to look on them from time to time, of course!). I think that animals are cognitive as far as feelings and emotions are concerned. When you are sad, yes, they come to comfort you, but they will also tear you to shreds if they get hungry enough and you are lost in the wilderness.
It is interesting that we don't have a problem killing cows for beef but throw a fit when the topic of horses and glue comes up. There is an obvious level in which we place horses and it is above the cows. I think that it is because we have been taught and trained to think of the cow as food and the horse as companion or at least a form of transportation. Do we judge all animals in the way they benefit us the most? The more beneficial they are, on a human emotional level, the higher they rate on our scale of importance?
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