Story: Would you knowingly hurt your Pet?

 “Would you ever want to hurt the pet that gives unconditional love and asks nothing in return?   Of course not!”

Pets of all shapes and sizes are life companions, protectors, mess makers, bed warmers, sloppy kissers, poop droppers, food gluttons, travel partners, money drainers, humor enhancers, window sitters, couch walkers, sly ignorers, wisdom holders, peace keepers and the list goes on and on. When they hurt, we hurt. Eyes sad and revealing, yet their silence masks so many of the secrets they have seen.

Our hearts go out to the innocent ones, children and animals whose voices and lives are under our protective hand for just a short while. And then we ask what is in the hearts of those who hurt, abuse and neglect these little ones?

What mystery lies within them that rages for recognition through their sad and violent deeds? Neglect, abuse, gambling, fighting, all for greed and power – the dark side protruding from the depths of darkness within. What have they seen over the years to produce anger and hate to the max. And for what purpose! Our society has lost its ability to read, see and acknowledge the mirrors reflecting out from the inner anguish and turmoil framed by the human body.

And what about the rest of us! With our gentle and compassionate hearts seemingly open towards all life. We believe ourselves to be good, kind, fair, loving, desiring a peaceful life, seeking abundance and joy, yet also knowing that with the high road there must also be the low turns and valleys to continue on learning life’s ultimate mission.

Would we knowingly and consciously hurt our pets, make them ill to suffer in their silence yet still being the ray of unconditional love in our lives? Of course we would not! Unfortunately, it is what we do far more than we can or dare to admit. Let me give you some examples gained through my own experience, both professionally and also sadly personally.

Example #1 – Anastasia Ana as she was known at home, found us at the end of a funeral service my husband was officiating. The nine-year old granddaughter of the man whose life was being honored took change of a tiny bundle of five-week old wet fur after she had been blown out of her box during a surprisingly strong storm the evening before.

Wrapped in a tea towel and safely bundled in warm arms, Ana slept through the service, to be later lovingly and playfully deposited on the floor in the church office. The perfect milk moustache clinched the deal that she had chosen my husband and me. For nearly seven years Ana quietly tolerated her male companion Zack, and mentored our family through the roller-coaster life of a minister and wife serving churches in the Mid-West.

Looking back I can now see the tell-tale signs in her behavior and health as she quietly began taking on and holding the “energy of the emotional dramas” my husband and I experienced over the years. As our marriage was drawing to a close, Ana’s health deteriorated. Her colon, bowels, intestines began shutting down, not able to digest and eliminate the waste from her body. Tim and I were also tied up in much of the emotional deceit, hypocrisy and power games played within church congregations. Having to keep much to ourselves, our emotional and physical bodies also struggled to live. As our marriage was drawing to a close, I now see how Ana took on even more of ‘our stuff’.

 Along with the vet, we tried many remedies to help her. They would work for a short while and then stop. Finally the time came when we knew she was asking to be released from this life, her work was done. Tim and I had somewhat peaceful come to the understanding of our parting, for us to remain friends and honor our futures paths and lives wherever they may lead. In a loving ceremony, held intimately in our caring arms, she surrendered to the Divine Love and left us with her wonderful memories and her wisdom.

We wanted to know what went wrong so the vet did an autopsy. Her colon and intestines were filled with matter like concrete.

This is the lesson I took from this knowledge: Looking at the colon as the body’s garbage can: if a garbage can is never emptied, just has stuff continually push down and down with more stuff being loaded on top, over and over again, eventually what is on the bottom will become rock hard, be full of disease, bacteria, have no oxygen to breathe, thus creating an immovable block of rotting mess!

Point: If we do not truly acknowledge and work to release the physical, emotional and mental baggage and garbage in all levels of our lives we are doing exactly the same thing to our own bodies as well as to other people and pets around us. Do not underestimate the power of unseen energetic threads you choose to hold!

Example #2 – Emma Several years ago I experience another gentle death of a cat. She was only four years old, quiet, petite and yet playful. Of all the domesticated animals, cats are probably the most intuitive, knowing and expressive. At the time I was house sitting for a friend in Florida who had taken a new job in New York.

Her house was for sale and needed to be lived in and the two cats needed companionship. Over the first month or so in conversations with Rita, she would mention her concern about how the move would effect the cats; how would she be able to handle two cats traveling by plane; where would they all live and how much time it may take getting accustomed to new surroundings and people.

The day the house sold and an offer was accepted, was the day I believe Emma decided to let go. The three days prior to that day she seemed to get quieter and more passive. She did not want to play and hid herself a lot. Wednesday night I came home from work and knew something was very wrong. I knew she was leaving. A little later that night she died on the bathroom floor. My prayers and energy work went into high gear and she came back. At 1:00am, we were at the vets and after half an hour or so I left her in the vet’s very good hands. My hopes were not high but more than anything I wanted to understand what was happening.

The next morning was a roller-coaster ride of optimism until Emma decided to leave. I was so grateful to be her surrogate parent and even more grateful to be able to hold her to the end. As a Medical Intuitive Medium I am very sensitive to feeling, sensing, touching, and seeing energy fields in living matter.

As with Ana, during the transitioning process the feeling and texture of her body totally changed. There was a point when her heart was still beating, but I will say that her Soul/Spirit had left. Then it came back and the feeling and texture of her fur and body mass changed back once again. She chose to stay a little longer, which I think was for me rather than for herself! Emma finally released her Soul/Spirit. Her body mass and fur changed once again. Her eyes (the windows to the Soul) became dark and her body felt like just a protective framework.

I realized this little one was no different to our human self. Through the wonders of science and modern medicine, cells, organs, limbs, every part of the body can be replaced, repaired, remodeled, revived. Yet without the BREATH and the SOUL/SPIRIT that chooses to be present, there is no life.

This is the lesson I took from this knowledge: Did Mary intentionally and consciously ask Emma to leave? Of course not! On what level was the agreement made between them? I do not know! What I do know now is that the physical, emotional and mental threads connecting us to all other forms of life, do have very powerful and charging effects that travel back and forth along invisible grid lines. What is thought, said and acted on reverberates out to affect others.

Point: Now look back on your own life with pets: at any time have they taken on unusual illness and diseases, have they had changes in behaviors, eating and sleeping habits, have they become more loving or more distant, like or dislike people!

Are any of these indicators similar to any situations in your personal or professional life? What you find may surprise you.

These may be the very clues you need in order to begin to unravel the health issues of yourself and your pets, to begin walking your road to Wellness and Health.