In the case of Henderson v Henderson, 2016 SKQB 282, the Court noted that although there is a distinction between animals and inanimate objects because animals have statutory protection from being treated with cruelty or neglect, they are still property. Justice Danyliuk noted that emotional and sentimental attachment to property, regardless of the kind of property, can be an important and even determinative factor in its division, and that treating pets as children was not necessary in order to take such emotional attachment into account.

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