Great thread!
Animals, being sentient beings, in my opinion, would have to have souls. It is too often, sadly, the case that humans, thinking themselves "advanced" or "enlightened" or "Masters of the Universe" due to physical size of the brain, just assume that animals don't have thoughts or feelings or emotions...therefore we can do whatever we want to them. Admittedly, their thoughts, feelings and emotions MAY not be like ours (or they may be...).
The fact is....We don't know for a fact that they don't think or feel.
So I believe that we have to act as if our animal friends have thoughts, feelings, emotions and, yes indeed, souls.
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