Channeled by Serge J. Grandbois Transcribed by Mark C. BukatorRecorded in Toronto, Canada on December 02, 2002 07:40 PM (19:40) © Copyright 2004 Avion Rising Inc.

KRIS: You were speaking about companion animals or what you so joyously refer to as your pets. Do know that you are one of the rare species that keep pets so that makes you unique in some way. Your companion animals mean far more to you than you simply being either something to feed, something to walk or something to bathe. They understand your own nature and your own emotional states more completely than even you may know yourself. The reason being is that they are actually part of and parcel of your own self. So a portion of your own energy that you can not manifest will take a life of its own in that way and become your companion animal and bring you help and support, some friendship and companionship when you need it most and always unconditionally. They do not ever request that you sign some contracts or you must oblige them with union fees. If they did, many of you would be in trouble. They do not care what you look like when you awaken in the morning. They love you from a place where you may not even be able to love yourself, so they take on that capacity. The inner self that has extended some of its energies into your companion animal does so undeservedly to bring to your attention a loving frame of reference that you rarely give yourself. Indeed, your companion animals do not care if you have hat head or pillow head in the morning. They do not care what you look like stepping out of the shower nor do they care that you think of yourself in very critical terms. Their only criticism is that you should love yourself as much as they love you. They represent portions or aspects of your self, your energies that you also rarely give to yourself. There are times when your companion animals leave or pass away. Usually those times are when you are in need of energy. When your challenges may overwhelm you, then they may acquiesce and return the energy to you. Companion animals often take on some of your challenges. Many, many Companion Animal owners have experienced where even cancers have developed in the dog or in the cat almost to mimic their own cancers or clinical conditions. There are several reasons why they do that. One is to try to lessen your own challenge or your load, if you wish, to share with you your journey in hopes that they might be able to bring some healing to their humans. They do that unconditionally. Many of you are fortunate that they do not send you an invoice.
MARK: What about animals that have had different owners or belong to families? Is this a co-creation type of thing?
KRIS: Indeed, a companion animal that is brought up by an entire family will at times reflect the various family members’ moods or energies and express them through its own body. There are times when the companion animal has the charge or task of bringing about certain balance in the family environment that would not occur otherwise. There are times when the companion animal runs away and is adopted by another individual. Those times, your companion animal may feel that it is no longer necessary to share your journey and is being called somewhere else. They have their own innate consciousness and intelligence contrary to the popular views that they are dumb animals living on instincts alone. They do understand the human nature sometimes much more so than your best friend psychologist. Your Companion animals often play a very therapeutic role in their relationship with you, brining solace when you need it, helping you develop the joy when it is need. The companion animal has been with mankind for a very long time and it could be said that it is the Companion Animal that domesticated man. Mind you, many animals would agree with such a statement. They often see themselves as the stewards in the relationship, taking care of their humans.
MARK: What about animals that are not pets, animals in the wild?
KRIS: They also represent various offshoots of the collective human energy field. They have their own existences. They are also allowed to display their own growth patterns. Consciousness expresses itself in many forms as possible, some that you see and some that you do not, some that manifest here and some that do not. Just like some of your thoughts do not ever manifest and others do. So they play a very important role in human society. From a simple pet for a child to what you now have as therapy animals. There are some wild creatures that have reportedly left behind their wild state when a human being either wounded or sick is in need of help. So here you have relationships when you need them. Your companion animals are a necessary part of your social structure. It can easily be demonstrated that families that have Companion Animals are more easily adaptable to situations and inter-member relationships than those who never have had the opportunity to interact with a companion animal.
MARK: Do you highly recommend them?
KRIS: Indeed and do not treat them so much as chattel but treat them with the same respect that they treat you. Now it does not mean that you must take out the Royal Albert China and the gold plated cutlery at the dinner table. They do like to have their role, their place in the social structure. They are highly structured animals, both cats and dogs and when they leave your companionship, they pass away, part of that energy returns to your psyche. It may bring about an upsurge of perhaps enlightenment, comprehension, perhaps even a sense of fulfillment but they can continue on their own journey as well. They are a valid expression of consciousness which means they will evolve in their form as well. Now dogs will never become cats and your cats will never become dogs even though there are no divisions in consciousness itself. Still there are orders of expression and your cats continue in that type of reincarnational field or arena if you so desire.
MARK: What would be another arena for a cat?
KRIS: Perhaps there are other families that may need that particular cat’s expression of consciousness and it may be bring with it the knowledge and experience of having been with one or more people during it’s recently past experience. It may instead choose a more feral state where it can express more of its creature hood. There are always variations and it considers each one before it decides to take its own birth once again.