How can you have a poll for people's opinions on a matter that is black-and-white. Either animals have feelings or they don't. We can find out by turning to science to study the behaviour and minds of animals, but frankly we don't even need that to answer such a broad question. It's obvious animals have feelings.
A much more prudent question to ask now would be what constitutes a feeling, but Esus has covered that one pretty well. Feelings are the perceptions of chemicals released in responce to certain stimuli (chocolate, or something recognised by the brain as a threat, for instances).
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