Animals do not posses "souls" in the form of going to a heaven or paradise upon death. According to Christianity at least.
I beleive most animals operate on a series of instincts and pre-determined actions. What form of free-will can any animal express? If free will is making a rational choice then all animals have free will, they choose to eat, feed and procreate.
However, free will as displayed by humans is realising the rational choice, and having identified what is rational and irrational then being able to choose to do the irrational thing.
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