What do we own the animals and how and why do we owe it to them? Kant, Singer

What do we own the animals and how and why do we owe it to them? According to Kant we do not owe animals anything as he puts it "Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man."(emp130) I think the way he sees it is that animals do not have the capacity to understand, to make reason. When a dog is taught something like not to urinate in …

…disagrees with the torture and cruelty towards them, he thinks that humans have more "value" than an animal does. Kant states the ultimate ways that humans are worth more than animals such as desires, goals, and worth that are something that only a human may posses and an animal may never own. All in all, Kant beleives that animals were put here to benefit mankind, and that respect is for man and not for animal.