Author and psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg tackles that very question in his book "The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic". Interestingly, he says that "beyond the official symptoms of human depression, dogs and cats manifest numerous unofficial signs that are characteristic of depressed humans."
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