If you consider consciousness as the soul, then yes. Most countries in the world, have one or another form of anti-animal-cruelty laws, which are universally ap

If you consider consciousness as the soul, then yes. Most countries in the world, have one or another form of anti-animal-cruelty laws, which are universally applied to all mammalian species, and to considerably lesser extent, birds and esp. reptiles. These laws are admission of the belief in consciousness of animals, esp. mammals.