Cochrane is imprecise about what a Bill of Sentient Rights would contain, leaving work for sentientist constitutionalists, but Adenitire argues that "Sentientist Politics" may actually hamper legal efforts to secure animal rights, as Cochrane is opposed to the idea that animals (with possible exceptions of great apes and cetaceans) are "autonomous persons", and has previously argued that the property status of animals need not hamper the equal consideration of their interests.