Despite how it is popularly understood, sentience is simply awareness enabled by a nervous system. Etymologically, the word means "capable of feeling." Most, if not all, animals are sentient to one degree or another.
The quality that makes us special among animals is our sapience. We are homo sapiens, not homo sentiens. But the oppressive mindset that treats human beings like animals, and animals like things, doesn't like to acknowledge that we are made to be wise and animals are made to feel.
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