After months of study, I can report with confidence that other animals do indeed have religion, in fact, they have several. Take dogs for example. My last dog, Carlos, could do a hang-dog version of remorse that would put a saint to shame. Dogs have much to teach us about friendship, loyalty and service. And dogs worry alot.
Cats are different.
Fiercely independent, sinuous, unashamedly sensual, a warrior by nature, cats take their religion where they find it. They are more inclined to sit and sun, than to mope and bark. They are not obedient, and usually don't pay their would-be Masters much mind. They are the original T'ai Chi teachers, possessing a fluid grace that humans rarely achieve. Cat are the first buddhas, the true founders the religions of self-mastery which we call Platonism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Wicca.