answer:I’d say, only once humans get good enough at animal communication to have verifiable conversations where they agree to these laws and fully understand our legal system. In other words, NO, not until we’re a lot more advanced in many other ways. For example, we have the asinine principle that ignorance is no defence, while also making the law ridiculously enormous and written in such thick legalese that only someone with a very lengthy and expensive education has a hope of understanding it all, which I would say also invalidates its use on anyone but lawyers… But the situation with animals is even more severe, since of course pretty much no animal is likely to have any kind of provable legal awareness for a long time.