The Choice of Non-Humans

A couple of week's ago, here we discussed how one could learn from frogs if they presumably don't have bechira.  My father shlita has a post here about this same idea focused on last week's parsha.  Chazal say the dogs were rewarded for not barking at Klal Yisroel as they exited Egypt by receiving the meat of a trefa animal.  How could dogs be rewarded if they didn't have a choice in there actions?  Rashi cites Unklus that translated (14:8) נערמו מים as לשון ערמימות, the water tricked the Egyptians to enter into it.  Does water have a brain to trick the Egyptians?  Rav Shwab on the verse in this week's parsha tackles many of maamarei Chazal of this ilk with the same yesod.  There were two creations that happened in Berashis.  There was the individual creation of each item, and there was the creation of it all coming together to form a world.  When each item specifically was created, it had a form of intelligence.  However, when all was complete and done, there was the unit of the world created with the different levels of דצמ"ח.  At a time of a נס, the collective order of the world, nature is broken and everything reverts back to its original form of having intelligence.  It is at such a time that Chazal attribute decisions and intelligence to non-humans.