I agree with @jaredhowe on this. There is no way to make a determination of whether or not an animal demonstrates sentience. More than that, if you're going to expand morality to the animal kingdom, then you have to expand bodily ownership to all animals, which makes all acts of survival on the part of carnivores immoral. If that's the case, then we're free to kill them at will, since they've already exhibited complete disregard for the consent and bodily integrity of other animals.
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As I said, morality, is a concept, that only we can understand, through abstraction, and only applies to our actions. Higher order consciousness is held to a higher standard. Just because another can't understand what we understand does not negate our understanding. Just because they can't understand how the concept of morality applies, doesn't negate how morality applies to our actions that are directed to all. Stop limiting your ability to discern how YOU should act, just because someone else can't think like you do. Put yourself to a higher standard and not engage in the fallacy of justifying your actions based on how ANOTHER acts. Oh hey look, someone else murdered someone, I guess I should just mimic them and validate that action and also engage in it. Oh hey, look, someone just raped someone else, I guess that validates my justifications to do it as well... LMAO. You need to go learn more about this subject and not engage in these fallacies.