Very good questions. 
In my opinion, as long as you are not attached to an outcome, sending love is fine. It's when you want to control something that free will becomes an issue. For example, if I give a homeless person money, I don't care how that money is spent. Whether the homeless person spends it on drugs or food doesn't matter because the choice is not mine to make—my choice was to share my money.
When it comes to animals it gets a little trickier for many reasons. If one has a pet, there must be some rules when entities live together; what's tricky is there is no verbal agreement. So as far as telling a dog to "sit" for example, I would look at why it's being said. Is it for a reason that's important? How much of the desire for the dog to sit is based on a need to control? Also, if one has a pet, I would hope the animal could live its natural animal life as much as possible. For example, caged animals and animals that never go outside would be very unnatural and controlling. I'm kind of out of the box here, but I don't like fish aquariums, zoos, stabled riding horses, etc. for that very reason—because humanity is infringing upon the free will lives of those animals. (And this is to say nothing of the industries that abuse animals.)
Thank you for caring about these things.
In my opinion, as long as you are not attached to an outcome, sending love is fine. It's when you want to control something that free will becomes an issue. For example, if I give a homeless person money, I don't care how that money is spent. Whether the homeless person spends it on drugs or food doesn't matter because the choice is not mine to make—my choice was to share my money.
When it comes to animals it gets a little trickier for many reasons. If one has a pet, there must be some rules when entities live together; what's tricky is there is no verbal agreement. So as far as telling a dog to "sit" for example, I would look at why it's being said. Is it for a reason that's important? How much of the desire for the dog to sit is based on a need to control? Also, if one has a pet, I would hope the animal could live its natural animal life as much as possible. For example, caged animals and animals that never go outside would be very unnatural and controlling. I'm kind of out of the box here, but I don't like fish aquariums, zoos, stabled riding horses, etc. for that very reason—because humanity is infringing upon the free will lives of those animals. (And this is to say nothing of the industries that abuse animals.)
Thank you for caring about these things.
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