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?

EDIT: I'm getting a lot of trivial mistakes made by modern philosophy in the comments and answer. I would like someone who actually knows scholatics to answer. I don't want discuss with people who don't know what a science is or basic aristotelic concepts like essence, form, causes etc.