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The question about the property over animals has been peaceful and undisputed until very recent times. The de-objectification of animals, which is now proposed in the Civil Code of Spain, has recently been implemented in the Civil Codes of France (2015) and Portugal (2016) and is emerging as a movement that, with intermittency, does not has ceased to move forward since the introduction in Austria in 1988 that animals are not things of property ("nicht-Sachen"). Today De-objectification is equated with recognition of the animal sentience ("sentient beings").