Alan,

It's my opinion based on my experience that all animals already have souls, including humans and apes, since both are animals. In my opinion so do goats and sheep. So, I cannot see any other possibility than the kind of hybrid you describing having a soul. Probably, this would be a hybrid soul. 

The legends of Atlantis claim that scientists there created many such hybrids with many different animal species. Supposedly, they created a hybrid human-horse to be a work animal.  Unfortunately for these hybrids many retained the same level of intelligence and awareness as human beings, though some were in the realm we might describe as retarded human beings.

Supposedly, many years later, other Atlantean scientists worked toward eliminating the animal traits carried by these hybrid individuals through further genetic engineering.  Supposedly, some of the extremely rare, anomalous human birth defects in which a human infant has some animal traits, are the genetic residual of these early Atlantean experiments in genetic engineering.

Supposedly, some of these Atlantean genetic engineers are presently incarnated within physical reality and once again practicing their art of genetic engineering with the goal of improving human life. Perhaps it would be well for those genetic engineers to realize that they are uncorking a bottle wherein lives a Genie who was allowed out of the bottle in Atlantean times.  

With great power comes great and the sometimes grave responsibility.

Bruce

Hi

I agree that animals have souls     Here are some glimpses of animals souls that perhaps you've noticed too -

The empathy that a family pet can have with its humans is marvelous to experience. A child coming home with a bad report card or an adult coming down with a fever will often get reassurance from a concerned pet;

a recent magazine article by a horse owner told about trail riding with a horse that would stop at the crest of hills but only if the view was beautiful. The horse would then look both ways and sigh deeply before moving on;   

Photos of zoo and research chimps often show the animals looking inward while they consider their plight. What are they looking inward to if not their souls?

  Bets

"where do we draw the line?"
excellent question Roger. When I think about it, what about viruses, and what about things we don't label "living"? Has anything a soul? And what makes a thing a thing, what makes something separate of something?

I have no answer.
Finally, we don't even know what a soul exactly is. We know nothing!

Spooky

Ohh....
     yeah... well....
I thought we got around that issue pretty well for a while.   

Since we've been told not to kill human life, I'd be hesitant to support making new ones from humans.  We breed species of other mammals in order that they fit human need or particular environments, etc. We got that idea from nature but we wanted it faster, now.

A super-intelligent species ( anyone smarter than us  ) must have some of the same doubts about using humans to shore up their gene-pool, -- if there is such a situation.

We love to think of our pet dog or cat waiting for us in the afterlife.  But if all living things have souls, does that mean we'll have to put up with their fleas when we die?

Alan-

Yeah, guilty as charged.

Seriously, however, there was an NDE account posted on this board a few years ago about a lady who, while clinically dead, saw her beloved deceased dog sitting in a lounge chair in a well-appointed library.  The dog was smoking a pipe, reading a book.  Beyond the library windows was a beautiful meadow with towering, majestic trees.

The lady explained that the library was an exact duplicate of the one in which her dog would lie, watching her husband sitting in an identical chair and yes, smoking a pipe while reading.

So, she concluded that her dog was simply re-creating a scene with which he was familiar while alive.

She was thrilled, and claimed it was proof positive that pets exist in the afterlife, waiting anxiously for our arrival (although one would think the dog would want a field full of fire hydrants rather than trees.....).

Personally I would have a slightly different conclusion, but then who knows? Maybe all those gold fish I lost in my childhood are swimming around, waiting for me with open fins.

R

This whole soul thing is most interesting. During a trip to TMI, I had the pleasure while doing an exercise that I had direct communication with my All through a tree. I have told the story on this site before some time back..The tree communicated with me the meening of life itself. That everything has a living energy within it that exists for sacrifice. That included the tree that the communication was coming from, rocks, dirt, and even fleas. (apparantely that even includes my X wife who I thought for years had no soul. LOL)The communication was very real and one of the most moving experiences of this lifetime for me. This is All reality as shown to me. That not one is more significant than the other. I, no better or more than that flea, or even a rock. Just different. The flea is just as welcome in heaven as you or I.  As everyone's reality is different, this may not hold true for you or the heaven you believe in. My heaven is open to All.