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You're welcome.If this is causing her much trouble, then it might be worth mentioning that some have also speculated that God might transform animals in the afterlife, to be persons, like the talking animals in Narnia. I'm sceptical of that hypothesis, but it has some merits, and offers unique responses to the problem of animal pain. This way their life and the pain they endure would also be transformed and redeemed.Trent Dougherty wrote a book about this thesis. https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Animal-Pain-Creatures-Philosophy/dp/0230368484I haven't read it, and only know it's basic line of tought, but it might very well be helpful for your friend, if she isn't convinced by other explanations. Some more food for toughts:https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/05/epiphenomenalism-and-problem-of-animal.htmlhttps://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/epiphenomenalism-and-problem-of-animal.html Another crazy hypothesis, I think I read it somewhere on Pruss's blog (he is a Catholic philosopher),but couldn'T find where exactly, but it is conencted to the ideas expressed in the post I linked above:Animals really didn't feel pain before the Fall. Everyting worked the same way as it does now, they had the same neural correlates, but the subjective experience, the qualia of pain was simply not present. The best reason that we have now to think that this qualia is present in animals, is that otherwise we would have a skeptical hypothesis, and God wouldn't permit such a high-scale deception to occur to our beliefs about animals. But this reason is not present before the ensoulment and creation of the human person.Now, I do not endorse this view, i think it is a bit crazy, but it is possible:) The actual line of thought about this problem that I take is mostly outlined in my previous comment, what I wrote above is all hypothetical.This post also has some nice thoughts about how we relate to animal pain:https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/06/wild-animal-pain.html