Awaking to Animal world

There was a time, I thought of animal world,

In terms of what we were taught.

That God placed them there for our consumption.

When I was very young, 

My sister read me a poem from her classes.

Where only at the end, it was revealed,

The poem was not about a person but a cow.

It did get me wondering if cows know.

If that cow really knew she was being led to the slaughter.

And was tearing due to it.

The poem left a deep impression on me.

However, we were taught, 

The difference between animals and us is,

We have souls and they do not have souls.

Hence when they die, they perish,

While when we die, we do move on to the other world.

We have memories and they do not.

We know what pain is and they do not.

In a word, they have no thinking minds like us.

Today, I know differently.

My dogs have memories and they think.

They experience pain and other emotions,

Similar to humans.

And then we had our first dog.

That was three decades ago.

At first, I did not want to touch it.

Dogs are dirty, full of fleas and ticks.

Was my erroneous preconception of dogs.

Stemming from where I came from.

Where I come from, we were terrified of dogs.

They were mostly guard dogs, left to roam free.

They chased us when we were on foot or bicycles.

I was chased by a pack of dogs once.

What saved me was jumping onto a little dry ground, surrounded by water.

Gradually, I bonded with my dog, Cassie.

Cassie was a collie shepherd mix.

She came as a pure bred Collie.

However, it was soon apparent.

A pure bred she was not.

I love her for that.

I did not want a purebred.

I soon bonded with her.

With that, the animal world opened to me.

It was like she opened the door to the animal world for me.

An empath, my immediate response was,

Now, I am hurting for animals as much as for humans.

I could not stand to watch videos of polar bears starving.

It hurt so much, it haunted me.

I could not watch movies of dogs being abused.

At the same time, I realized it was a grace.

I was awakening to the animal world.

And after Ra, I know they have souls.

Ra said if we give dogs and animals love and attention.

And they develop awareness and personality.

When they reincarnate, they will reincarnate as third density beings.

Which is us, human beings.

Right now, like trees, they are in second density.

Little wonder whenever I dream of my dogs.

They are not dogs in my dreams but three year olds.