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Article: Readers weigh in on animals and souls.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 23, 2001
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It seems like an off-the-wall question: Do animals have souls?
No doubt most pet owners love their animals. But do they really believe that their little Snowball the cat or Godfrey the Great Dane has a spiritual nature equivalent to yours and mine?
Well, let the readers who responded to that question I posed a few weeks ago speak for themselves. Here's a sampling:
"The soul is a product of the mind which chooses between good and evil and between love and hate," wrote Dan Kirkhuff. "Although dogs and other animals demonstrate this to a degree, the human definition should apply only to humans."
"If animals have souls, then they must be ...