Animals probably can't feel complex emotions, like guilt or regret, or fear of things that might happen in the future - they probably don't have the cognitive ability to do it, and like Shrink said, they probably can't PLAN like a human would - a lion doesn't wake up and think "today I'll go out and catch a wildebeest". They know they'll be hungry in the future, which is why predators kill when they're not hungry, but I've heard it said that that's about as far ahead as they can plan. But as for animals having emotions, of course they do; you just have to look at any pet dog to know that.
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