Okay. We can go with that.
We can start by asking what "empathy" means. Merriam-Webster defines it as
1: the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with itOn this basis, would you say that cats have a capacity for empathy?
2: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this
It seems both our last replies crossed in the mail. I'll take a breather till such time as we can catch up again.
Most animals do not seem to demonstrate empathy, no. And a very large number of people don’t either.