Even as a little girl I remember hearing over the school bus radio that another bus driver had hit a dog. I started to cry a little and said a silent little prayer for the dog, I still remember the exact prayer: “Please, don’t let the dog suffer, please make sure the dog is in no pain.”

Now I know a lot of us have a special love for our 4 legged house friendly animals. But what about all the other animals out there?  I learned from an article published by a University that they did a study on animals brains and discovered they feel a lot of what we feel as humans.   They feel PAIN, they feel LOVE, they feel SADNESS / LOSS, and they feel JOY on the EXACT same way we humans feel (humans justify the emotion so that is different, I am talking about the pure, raw emotion).

Then I realized that with that knowledge, there is a lot of pain animals are feeling. They are not heartless wild animals, they are not without a spirit and that spirit & energy is never ending. Just because the shell is no longer living didn’t mean that the energy that lived in that shell is gone too. Quite the opposite, it is very much alive and can be tapped into at any given time.

My ancestors knew this truth, they honored this truth, and in turn they honored LOVE.   Because that is what it really comes down to….. LOVE.   It is the only thing we know lasts forever, the only thing we know to be true. So where did the love for animals go?  Why do we as humans in general feel we have the right to decide how an animal lives, dies, and is treated?  We fight for human rights on such an extreme level but we are forgetting the most important part, we ARE animals too!

I am a mom of 4 beautiful children and when I close my eyes I can actually picture myself in their bodies, I picture seeing what they are seeing and I picture feeling what they are feeling – babies don’t have the programing adults have about justifying the emotion or using logic to determine why we feel what we feel. No, babies are pure, children are pure.   There are times where I feel such joy putting myself in their mind and there are other times when I am sad about what they must be feeling.   I don’t know many of my friends who truly try to think or feel this way.

It is an emotional intelligence that many people are not linked to. Not yet anyways. 🙂   SO with that same scenario, placing myself into an animals spiritual feelings (pure like a human babies) I am saddened by many things.   All animals want is to live and love.  Animals are not mindless creatures.  And that is where this story begins…..