You were just another soldier, a canine human. Soldiers like you were no longer human and you knew it, you had assimilated it too long ago. You had been loyal to the government, but in the end you were discarded. Now you were just a stray dog. Angry at being abandoned, sad that you no longer had a purpose to fight for, and worse, you blamed yourself for ending up like this. Everyone else in your unit, your pack, had ended up just like you. Your feelings weren't unique, but you still want to feel like you were special and wanted to find a new owner design to blindly follow, because that's how dogs are. They don't understand why they have been abandoned, but they still continue to love those who were once their owners.

Then one day you met him, it was the day you finally will get out of the Gulag. That man... Makarov... He will get you out of there. It seemed almost like a miracle. He found you inside your cell in the Gulag.
"You come with me", Makarov said authoritatively, stroking your chin as if you were a real dog.