Features of protection of animated things

The article examines the correctness of the use of the term «animate things» in relation to animals. The question of the need to give animals the quality of the subject of law is investigated. It is proved that this is impossible in domestic civil law. The main classifications of animals are analyzed and it is determined that the nature of the protection of an animal depends on the group to which it belongs. It is concluded that the Civil Code of the Russian Federation considers animals as things, and the term «animate» is used in the doctrine in order to emphasize the specificity of animals as objects of law.