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About the spiritual soul: can animals aprehend universals?

I'm struggling with this question for a while:

it seems like dogs do know what dogs are. Is it possible for a dog to only recognize individuals and not grasp the universal concept of dog? Do animals really live in a "stimulity" as Xavier Zubiri described?

How did the scholastics separate the animal and spiritual capacities of human beings?