Pet Soul Agreements: Do Your Pets Have Soul Contracts With Each Other?

In this follow-up to one of our most popular episodes, we take a look at how and why your pets wind up being in your interspecies family together. Is it just random chance? Or could there be a soul agreement in place for those animals to share time together just like there is for people? Find out in this episode.

What you will learn:

• How pet soul contracts are the same yet different from the soul agreements we have with our pets
• 8 of the most common types of soul agreements two pets can have with each other
• A 9th "hidden" soul contract that you really need to know about!
• How pet soul agreements work when you only have one pet at a time
• Practical signs to watch for that can help you identify the pet soul contracts as they activate in your animal family.

Related podcast episode: 8 Types of Soul Agreements Which One Do You Have?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Interspecies Soul Agreements
• 5:42 Soul Agreements Between Animals
• 13:46 How Soul Agreements Activate
• 20:59 Romantic Soul Partners Between Animals
• 25:59 Platonic Soul Partners Explained
• 30:44 Parent-Child Soul Agreements
• 37:24 Siblings, Best Friends & Casual Friends
• 48:37 Frenemies and Mismatched Soul Agreements
• 55:42 Solo Soul Agreements and Conclusion

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

Welcome back to let's Talk to Animals, the podcast all species can enjoy together. My name is Shannon Cutts. I am an animal sensitive and intuitive, a Reiki master practitioner and an animal communication teacher with animallovelanguagescom and for our purposes here today, I am also your friendly neighborhood hostess and guide through the wild, wise and wonderful world of interspecies communication. Call me crazy, but I truly believe that animal communication has the power to save, heal and restore our planet for all species to enjoy and share. When we learn to communicate with one another, we begin to realize we are so much more alike than different. We care about each other. We become friends. On this podcast we talk about what the animals have to say and share and why our pets truly are our partners, empathic friends and teachers. I am so glad you have joined us here for this fresh new episode of let's Talk to Animals, so let's dive in. Welcome back to let's Talk to Animals, shannon. Here, your friendly neighborhood hostess and guide, and today on the docket, we are finally diving into part two of what has become one of the most popular episodes here on let's Talk to Animals, if you remember listening to the episode on eight of the most common types of soul agreements that you can have with your pet. Well, today we're going to take that one step further. Now you might be asking yourself how could we possibly take soul contracts, soul agreements, with my beloved pet any further? Isn't that as far and as deep as we can go? And to answer that question, yes and no. Have you ever looked around? This is especially for those of you who have ever had more than one animal in your interspecies family at a time. So maybe you've had two dogs, or a dog and a cat, or, like our family, you've had a dog and a bird and two reptiles. And you've looked around and you've become aware of how many animals there are alive on this planet right now and have been filled with awe and wonder that the specific animals that you love so much have all found you, and you have found them, and here you are sharing your family life together. Please tell me it's not just me who sits around and thinks about these things, but have you ever wondered do those animals that are in your interspecies family, in your pet family, do they share soul agreements with one another? If it's such a miracle that you and your pet found one another, could it perhaps be that it's equally miraculous that the animals in your family have all come together with one another. Now, for those of you who have booked pet sessions with me or you're currently sorting through interspecies family issues let's just call them areas where maybe you're seeing some reactivity or some timidity or some separation, anxiety or some aggression or some behaviors between the animals in your family that indicate that all is not well, that all is not super duper happy, shiny, friendly feelings between the two animals. Well, we're going to unpack that too For us with our love of animals, of course, here at let's Talk to Animals podcast, if you're listening and if you're still listening, you've been with me for multiple episodes or perhaps multiple seasons.

Speaker 1: 3:49

We're a community of empaths. We love our animals. We love our pets so much that we are willing to invest our personal time to tune into podcasts like this, to learn animal communication, to invest in family meetings, pet sessions. For many years before I became a professional animal communicator, I was hiring animal communicators and I would have periodic family meetings. I called them to check in with everybody in my interspecies family, make sure everything was going well, make sure that any issues hurt feelings, jealousies, resentments, inadequacies in the care I was providing that we would be able to talk about these things and sort these out so that we could have the type of healthy, happy, harmonious family life that was my big picture intention for everyone in our family. So if you're listening to this and you're thinking, well, how could my pets have a soul agreement with one another if they don't seem to like each other or if they don't get along? Well, keep listening. We're going to talk about that.

Speaker 1: 4:53

Soul agreements are not always the fluffy happily ever after soul meetings that we might hope or anticipate that they would be. Soul agreements first and foremost, fundamentally, are about learning and growth, and for those of you who are brand new to let's Talk to Animals podcast and you're just joining me for this episode you can go ahead and keep listening, but I would encourage you to go back and listen to the podcast episode called Eight Different Types of Soul Agreements with your Pet. Which one do you have? Because that's going to fill in some of the information that I'm not going to go into in this episode. That relates more directly to your soul agreement that you share with each pet in your family, and you might have different soul agreements with different pets in your current or past interspecies family, so I'm not going to go into some of those details because I already covered them and it's just a preface to what we're about to dive into.

Speaker 1: 5:53

First and foremost, if you're new to me, I want you to know that I am not sitting alone in a closet somewhere cooking all of this stuff up. These are not my private pet theories, so to speak, probably pun intended, but rather in a clear, pure fashion, I am simply sharing with you what the animals teach me each and every day as I'm talking with them, and I'm also going to add the PS which I always add in every episode. This is what I've learned to date and it is not meant to be representative of all there is to know, so please don't listen to this episode and think well, that is just the way soul agreements work. That is the way soul contracts are. There is always more to learn. I am always learning more. I have learned more since I recorded that episode on soul agreements we share with our pets and I will continue to learn more. And as I learn more, I will continue to share what I learned with you. And I will continue to learn more. And as I learn more, I will continue to share what I learned with you, and I also want you to know how welcome you are to share what you learn with me.

Speaker 1: 7:12

So we are learning and growing together, and the reason I want to preface everything else we're going to talk about with that statement is because another key tidbit of information, wisdom, that the animals have shared with me, is that nobody comes into a physical incarnation here in what they call earth school, into what they call these spacesuits, these physical bodies. Nobody comes here without at least two primary agenda items One is we have something to learn and two is that we have something to teach, and so when we're looking at a soul agreement, a connection that we share with another being, we're looking at teaching them something and we're looking at learning something from them, and we're looking at that being a two-way street. So your pet is here in your life to teach you something and you are in your pet's life to teach them something. Your pet is in your life to learn something from you and you are in your pet's life so that you can learn something from them. And all of this, as I mentioned, I go into it a little bit more detail in the prequel, if you will to this episode.

Speaker 1: 8:26

These soul agreements are created at the energetic level, at the light body level, so when we're in the etheric or the soul space, and they activate when we enter these bodies and we meet, when we're both in a physical body. And that's how the soul agreement activates and that's the moment when you point and you say I'll take that one. Or you see a photo continually scrolling on your social feed and something in your heart reaches out and you go down to the shelter to meet that animal. Or you're looking at breeder websites in one particular animal, their story just speaks to you in a way that no story has ever spoken to you before and you just feel compelled to reach out. So that's how soul agreements typically activate and there's all different flavors of that.

Speaker 1: 9:10

But what we're going to look at here today is it is no accident especially for those of you who have had several animals in your family at one point in time, or you do now it's no accident that those animals are in your family right now and that they have come together in a particular configuration, that they've come together In the same way. I'm going to add one little bonus that we'll talk about at the end. If you currently only have one animal in your family, then know that that is very specific and there's a reason for that too. Then know that that is very specific and there's a reason for that too, and we'll talk about that right at the end. But, going forward upfront, what we're looking at is just as you share a very specific soul agreement with each animal in your family. Whether you have all your animals are in spirit, whether you have one animal in a body right now living with you, whether you have two, one animal in a body right now living with you, whether you have two, three, multiple animals, each of those animals you share a soul agreement with a specific reason why you agree to keep company with each other in physical body form.

Speaker 1: 10:16

And this is the fascinating part for our episode today. Each of your animals shares a soul agreement with one another. Mind blown right. That's the part where my little brain circuits I could just hear them popping off and exploding. They're going wow, that's a lot to keep track of and it's also really profound and so interesting.

Speaker 1: 10:37

And I am going to walk you through eight of the most common types of soul agreements that your animals may share with one another, as well as some of the major lessons that those soul agreements have both to teach each animal and also as a form of instruction and learning and ongoing evolution for you. So there are all kinds of interconnections, but each animal retains free agency over their life path, the reasons why they come here, the strengths that they bring into their physical bodies, the wisdom, the lessons they have to teach, the particular qualities that are emphasized, what they have to offer and to give, as well as what we might call their challenges or their weaknesses or their sensitivities, the areas that they've come to evolve through, to work on, to grow through, to unfold or to work with or to even overcome. There is so much nuance in a soul agreement relationship because, while we can do a tremendous amount of work on our own, when it's just me and me, just you and you, we do tend to learn and grow better and faster when we partner with others who can serve as our models and our mirrors and our mentors and our students and our teachers. We learn as much by passing along what we've already learned in the form of teaching as we do by learning at the feet of someone who's mastered something we're still struggling through. And that happens regardless of species. In fact, in my line of work as an animal intuitive and an animal communication teacher, I have found that often our pets, our partners, empathic friends and teachers are the most profound teachers, the most powerful teachers in our lives, because their teachings come to us in such a pure form, without a shred of condescension or jealousy or judgment or neediness, so we can receive the opportunity to learn very openheartedly, without fearfulness, without self-guarding or even self-judgment self-guarding or even self-judgment. So this is another reason why interspecies, family life, is so powerful, so important and for many of us, probably for you as well, definitely for me, but for you as well.

Speaker 1: 14:15

If you're listening to a podcast called let's Talk to Animals, it's not optional. If you really want to be your best self, having an animal teacher in your life is an experience not to be missed and offers a level of learning that is really unmatched because of that unconditional love element. So let's get started and take a look at the first of the major eight types of soul agreements that your animals can share together and, as I mentioned, there's going to be a bonus, number nine that we'll talk about as well at the end. But number one is and this might surprise you, but it's all around us. You'll probably start seeing it all around you after we talk about it, but it is the romantic partner. The easiest place to see this is when we look at, perhaps, a breeder situation, or even a backyard oops breeder situation where two animals mate and have young, have puppies, kittens, chicks. They have little baby turtles. That is an example of the romantic partnership, soul agreement that two animals might share together.

Speaker 1: 15:28

Now, having that soul agreement, it doesn't always look like ours. We're not necessarily putting a ring on it, so to speak. But to be quite honest and fair to our own species, we have a lot of what we'd call fly by matings in our species too. So having a soul agreement to have a romantic encounter or entanglement, it isn't always about a life of love and romance. It can be simply functional to bring other souls into the world, all those little puppies and kittens and turtles and birds. They need to come through and get their bodies in some way, and so this can be a more functional type of soul agreement than we might expect.

Speaker 1: 16:14

But having said that, if you have animals in your family who exhibit romantic tendencies towards one another, even if maybe they're fixed. Maybe they are a match pair for breeding purposes or maybe they just have that energy about them where they are so loving with one another and they're just joined at the hip and it's got the specific flavor of the hip and it's got the specific flavor of I love you so much. And if you've ever found yourself getting a little jealous those two animals and wondering or feeling like you're in a triangle or you're the third wheel, this is a flashing light bulb moment that your two pets might share soulmate partnership, soul agreement with a romantic flavor towards one another. And again, this can be somewhat functional. It might be an oops moment.

Speaker 1: 17:14

I spoke with a pet parent a couple of weeks ago whose dog had gotten pregnant by another dog in their family and it seemed like an accident because they hadn't realized when they adopted the two dogs that they weren't fixed yet they were actually told that they were and didn't bother to check under the hood, so to speak, to see if that was accurate and surprise. So on the surface we might look at that and think, well, that doesn't really seem like a romantic soulmate agreement. And yet the little puppies are the proof that we need there is a soul agreement in place to usher new souls into the world. And even if it's a little bit functional and it doesn't look like our Hollywood romances, there is a flavor of romance. Well, we're calling for our PG show here, romance as an element.

Speaker 1: 18:11

And if you listen to the eight types of soul agreements prequel episode, you also heard me say that we can have several different flavors of soul agreement throughout our lifetimes together, but there tends to be one that is the most dominant. And so if we're taking a look at two animals who maybe they bred in a kind of an oops situation, well, their soul agreement may or may not stay soul mate, soul partners. It may transition out of that, especially if they're both fixed, and there may or may not continue to be that kind of a romantic flavor or feeling to their partnership. That might transition. And we're going to go through seven other types of soul agreements that our pets can share together and you might notice, well, it's transitioning more to best friends or more to platonic soulmates, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1: 19:07

But if there's ever been a breeding, or if you've just got two animals who love one another to such distraction that you genuinely sometimes feel like a third wheel, this can be indicative of the romantic version of the soul partnership, what I'm calling soul partners. There's also the other flavor, which is the platonic soul partner. The platonic soul partner are two animals who are joined at the hip or the beak or the tail or the paw or the claw, but it's more, just like we are partners. You might find that these two animals tag, team one another to support you. You might find that one of them is always what we might call on duty to watch over you and to be your companion and that they take turns in that role. And so you feel like you have two soul partners in your life, each with a different flavor but each equally deep at that soul level.

Speaker 1: 20:15

Here's a great example from one of my pet parent clients. I talked with her and she said talked with her and she said my two dogs were so close that if I gave a treat to one she wouldn't take it until she made sure I was also giving a treat to the other one. And so there's this feeling of everything shared equally and that's that soul partner level. We don't have the romantic flavor, but we do have this real feeling of equity. We share everything equally. We share our toys. We want to make sure that if I get something, you get something. We're not aggressive about one another's food or resources. In fact we're giving, and often you will also feel like they're both there for you with the same degree of intensity.

Speaker 1: 21:10

So If one is, for instance, recovering from something, or one needs to take a nap, or one is just off doing their thing or over at training class or whatever, the other one is going to be there with you and they're just tag teaming one another. With either animal, you feel that same depth, even if it's a little different in terms of their personality. You feel that same depth of connection and partnership. So it's really one type of soul agreement. If we're splitting hairs, the soul partner, but two different flavors. You've got more of the romantic soul partner. We've got more of the platonic soul partners that we can see between our animals.

Speaker 1: 21:50

The next type of soul agreement that our animals can share with one another is parent-child or child-parent, and this can be not only the formal side. For instance, if we've got a romantic soul agreement going on and then we have a continuation with a different animal in the family, let's say, two animals have mated and had puppies or kittens or birds, and then we see the parenting happens. So that's the unfoldment of a soul contract with a different animal. But we can also see this soul agreement between two animals. For instance, a few weeks ago I was talking with a pet parent and she had an elderly cat and then they adopted a very young cat and the older cat took the young cat under her wing or under her paw is probably a better analogy and it was like this young cat, barely out of kittenhood, became her kitten, her child. And sometimes we'll see that it's not always about chronological age, it can just be about temperament and personality and need. Sometimes we can see this even between animals of different species, and we might see a dog adopt a cat.

Speaker 1: 23:12

Sometimes you see that in your social feeds where the heading is something like unlikely animal friends. And when this happens at the soul level, at the energetic level, what we're looking at is the soul agreement of parent-child or child-parent. On the one side we've got the animal whose soul agreement it is to act as the parent or the guardian or the carer, and on the other side we've got the animal whose part of the soul agreement is to act as the dependent or the child or the chick or the kitten or the puppy, et cetera, et cetera, and this can be a very powerful soul agreement as well. Often what you'll see with your animal is you'll see that you have a partnership soul agreement with the animal who's the parent to that other animal. So it's like you're not having to raise your kitten all by yourself because you have your older cat who's also sharing, or co-parenting, if you will, with you. So that's where we can get into these more complex soul agreements that are so fascinating. It's like I don't have to parent my new kitten or my new puppy or my new chick alone because this other animal they share a parent-child soul agreement with this other animal in my family and they're going to help me take care of this animal. So that can be really actually nice when it happens. And often we'll see just a great level of care and concern that the parent or guardian animal has for this younger animal, checking in with them sometimes, maybe disciplining them when they're too rough in play or they are resource guarding, and the parent animal just takes matters into their own hands and gives them a little course correction and you don't have to do anything.

Speaker 1: 25:02

Sometimes, when you see an animal who comes into your family who's maybe a little shy or a little scared or just doesn't know the ropes of how to be in an interspecies family, and another animal will step up and take the lead. That's a soul agreement between those two animals activating. Now where this can go a little haywire is when we humans adopt an animal or we bring an animal into our family who's having trouble adjusting and we think I know what I'll do, I'll get another animal and that other animal can teach this animal what I don't know how to teach them. And as you might imagine, and especially if you've ever fallen prey to this great idea of your non-intuitive left brain thinking, mind well, you know how well that tends to go and it does prompt a fair number of requests for animal communication sessions on my end. And often what we discover is those two animals don't have a soul agreement of parent-child and they're not able to fulfill on your hopes. So we have to do a little course correction and find some other ways of working through this mismatch in what we hope would happen and the type of soul agreement that those two animals actually have and they do have one Anytime an animal wanders into your world and you have existing animals in your interspecies family, there is some level of soul agreement that is activated.

Speaker 1: 26:33

Otherwise our paths would never meet. Out of all the millions and billions of humans and non-human animals alive on this planet right now, it is a bona fide miracle when our path crosses with that of another, regardless of species. So there's always a level of soul agreement that activates and, as I shared more in the other, the prequel episode, that soul agreement might be for a reason which is typically a very short term. It could be for a season, which is maybe a little bit longer term, it could be for a lifetime, and that's typically when we see the pet reincarnation soul agreement. So those of you who have reached out to me and have had a session asking your soul pet to return to you through pet reincarnation, that's when we're talking about those lifetime soul agreements. But if you foster a kitten, like I did for three months, well, we had a soul agreement and we packed enough learning into those three months to last me a lifetime. Even though I wish we had had a lifetime. Our soul agreement was a reason. It was a very short period of time. So when we take a look at these soul agreements, we have to be respectful and realize there's always a soul agreement activating, but we can't place our own human expectations on the nature of that soul agreement or the length of it. We also can't try to tell ourselves there is no soul agreement because there is length of it. We also can't try to tell ourselves there is no soul agreement because there is, otherwise our paths would never have crossed. Instead, it's so vital to just do what I teach all of my beginning animal communication students Just notice, wonder, get curious and see what unfolds and trust your intuition about it.

Speaker 1: 28:10

The next type of soul agreement that our animals often share with one another. There's three types. I'm going to go through three different types, but they all share a flavor of similarity. The first one is siblings. Now, siblings can mean genetic. For instance, one of my mom's best friends recently adopted two sibling puppies. So they're genetic, biological siblings and they also act like siblings. So sometimes they argue, sometimes they share. They have the same mom and dad, they've inherited similar DNA, so they have the sibling soul agreement on every level. We see it in their DNA, we see it in their behavior towards one another. Sometimes they're two peas in a pod and sometimes they need a timeout from each other and that's just normal. And, like most siblings, that soul agreement can shift and evolve and change over the lifetime of the soul agreement.

Speaker 1: 29:09

So animals that might be going through a little bit of resource guarding or not wanting to share when they're little, well, we might see that they work through that in a sibling soul agreement as they get older and they grow up. Or maybe they don't. And so just understanding that sibling soul agreement, often where we find it is where we've got at least one biological parent in common. That's one flavor. The second is what I call best friends. So maybe they're not biological siblings. Typically these are not biological siblings because the sibling soul agreement when it's in that state of we're not just siblings, we're soul sisters or soul brothers or soul siblings. Typically there's a genetic component. But often what we'll find is two animals who have no genetic relationship at all. They are simply inseparable. They love one another so much and they do not want to be parted.

Speaker 1: 30:13

I see it a lot in certain animal species as well. There can be an ongoing soul agreement in very social species. For instance sheep they just don't do well. Goats, they don't do well alone. They really need to have another animal from their same species as a companion, as a best friend.

Speaker 1: 30:40

Sometimes we'll see this soul agreement activate when there's a rescued animal. For instance, I have a pet parent client who had a very shy horse and this horse just couldn't seem to transcend his past history of never really feeling like he was part of a family. And this happens with a lot of horses, especially in the working fields and the racing fields, as this horse had been, where they are periodically traded, like so many playing cards every so often, and they just don't ever feel like they're able to put down any roots. And this is a highly social species that we're talking about. And when my pet parent client brought a second horse into her family. Now, this doesn't always work, so don't think that it's an automatic solution. Oh, my horse is having trouble adjusting and calming down. I'll just go get another horse to be their best friend. No, it has to be the horse who has the sole agreement with your horse. It's just like that example of well, I'll just get another animal to teach my rescue animal the rules of the road. That doesn't always work the way that we think it will and the way our best intentions are headed. But in this particular case, when she brought this second horse into the family, they just bonded and the one horse who had such a calm disposition became literally this other horse's grounding rod. That was how he described himself to me. He said I am this other horse's grounding rod, he grounds on me and that's that best friend's soul agreement. There's also a flavor of the wise mentor or teacher and student soul agreement embedded in that particular story, so that can be another flavor.

Speaker 1: 32:27

So we've got siblings, often but not always, having a genetic component, at least one parent or some DNA in common. Or we're looking at two animals who come into the family, often at the same time, or are of similar ages, and they have the sibling connection. Then we're looking at best friends and best friends. They don't have to be the same age, they don't have to have any DNA, they don't even have to be the same species and they are just like siblings but they don't have some of those other hallmark components in common and they are just partners in crime, they are besties, they prefer to do everything together and again, sometimes it can feel like you're a little bit of a third wheel with these best friends because they have such a strong soul agreement with one another and once we understand that and we can take a step back from me and my needs and I am as guilty of this as the next person.

Speaker 1: 33:31

My tortoise Malti is so in love with my cockatiel Petal that it's like I'm not even in the room. I'm actually so in love with my mother that it's the same, I'm not even in the room. So I can take a step back and say it's not all about me. Yes, I have needs. We're wearing all these hats, we're financing this whole little family enterprise, we are taking care of them, we're serving them night and day VIP maid service, all that good stuff. And so it can be a little jarring when they seem to prefer one another. But just understand, you have this rare window into this secret life of our animals that so few humans ever even become aware of, and you have the great good fortune to give these two animals who are having such a good time with one another and are so enamored of one another and are just having such a blast together. You have created the safe family space where they can enjoy one another's company, and what a privilege that is. So trying to take ourselves out of the mix a little bit. Yes, our egos can get a little hurt with this one, but just understand how grateful your animals are at that soul level Because otherwise, with our top-down patriarchal approach, where our animals are having to give up 99% of their freedom and their autonomy and their power of choice to live in our world, the only way that these two animals are going to get to spend time together is by you choosing to create a safe family environment for them to meet and do that. So you are giving them a huge gift and with all our animals give to us, isn't it wonderful to know we do have the ability to give back at that deep level.

Speaker 1: 35:18

Now the third flavor, if you will, of this type of soul agreement which is really more equal, where we're looking at siblings, best friends, more of an equal partnership. There's a different energy to friendships or even siblings than something like romantic soulmates or platonic soulmates or what I'm calling soul partners, or a parent, child or wise, mentor and student or teacher and student. There's a little bit more energetic equality and individualism between siblings, best friends. And the third flavor is what I call acquaintances or casual friends, and it's like well, when my bread is buttered on the side of being your friend, I'll be your friend, but we're just not taking it too seriously. So these animals probably get along. Maybe they have moments when they play well together and moments when they're just like, yeah, I take you or leave you, and it's mutual. That's the key here. It's mutual.

Speaker 1: 36:14

So we don't have one who's just absolutely besotted with the other and follows them around and the other one is just like yeah, maybe, maybe not. This is pretty equal. It's like we say hi to each other on walks. We can eat companionably side by side. We don't need to be together, but we don't mind being together. And this one's pretty easy to spot. You're like yeah, everybody pretty much gets along.

Speaker 1: 36:38

When I hear a pet parent say that to me in a pet session or in one of our practice circle sessions with my students, we know where we're headed, that this is more of a casual friends, neighbors, acquaintances type of energy between the two animals. Nobody's openly fighting. There's no need for that. Everybody wants to get along, but there just isn't this deep connection. We've all met people like that, where it's easy enough to chat with them. It's pleasant to spend an hour or so, and after we leave we don't really think about it all that much anymore in either direction, positive or negative. So that's really more the flavor of it. And this can be where the animals in the family often they have the strongest soul agreement with us and they're respectful and recognizing that everybody in the family is meant to be there and the desire is to get along, but they're not really there for one another, they're there for us. So I would say that's pretty representative of my animal family right now. They're all here for me and they're all powerful teachers in my animal communication learning journey and definitely huge catalysts for the episodes that I share with you here through. Let's Talk to Animals as well.

Speaker 1: 37:55

Now the seventh type of soul agreement. So far we've gone through the romantic soul partner, the platonic soul partner, the parent-child or wise teacher and student, which I probably should unpack that a little bit more, but given the length of this episode maybe we'll save that for another time. And then we've gone through the siblings, the best friends and the casual friends, or what I'm calling friendly neighbors. And then we get to frenemies. And this is another one of those soul agreements that will frequently prompt requests for animal communication sessions. For obvious reasons. It can be difficult to manage. So we're not just genial, friendly acquaintances.

Speaker 1: 38:39

So this is the casual acquaintance where sometimes we're perfectly happy to just hang out and wave to one another from across the lawn and sometimes we're actively arguing over the exact perimeter where your property ends and my property begins, and so sometimes you might see these animals go through a period where everything is pretty peaceful and sometimes it feels like a nonstop war zone and sometimes, depending on the degree, the intensity of the soul agreement and also its teaching applications in the lives of each animal and in our life as their guardian, as with all soul agreements, interspecies or between same species we can look at a spectrum so it might be rather mild where really there are just some periods of time where maybe they don't get along very well or certain issues that seem to trigger that frenemies energy, like I'm perfectly fine sharing my toys, but I don't like to share my food. Or I'm perfectly fine when you sit on the couch with mom, but when I want to sit on the couch with mom you need to get off that kind of thing. Or we can see where it's just a flat out war zone, and so those are the bookends, if you will from one extreme to the other and we can see all different types of intensity levels in between and the frenemies. Typically there's a lesson there, there's something that these animals are working out between themselves and there's always something that we need to learn, that we need to learn, and often when we are able to learn the lesson, it really dials down the intensity of that soul agreement.

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It's heightened teaching moment for us when we attract animals into our interspecies family at the same time who have a frenemies soul agreement. It's like they're acting on a stage. There is something for us to learn. Typically it's about how we manage our energy and even our relationships, and it can be a pretty challenging lesson for us to learn because when we have frenemies, sometimes there can be issues where it's a little bit dangerous, and so it really is a motivation to us to dig deep and learn the lesson and go into the behind the scenes of what each animal needs. It's going to push us outside of our comfort zone to learn about new areas of pet care. New areas of pet care, whether that's diet or holistic care or enrichment, or even our own energy and how our different energetic states can impact our animals' abilities to get along. So this is definitely an intense teaching soul agreement because there is an element of if I don't learn this lesson, if I don't get it right, if we can't figure this out, somebody might get hurt, and because of that there's a deeper layer to the frenemies soul agreement.

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I'm going to share an example from one of our student practice circles where we had a pet parent come and she had four dogs all large breed dogs and all three of her original dogs got along great. Then she added a fourth dog and that fourth dog was the only dog that was fixed in the pack and one of the other dogs kept going after this dog who had had to be fixed for medical reasons, and so we had this unfolding frenemies soul agreement that activated when this dog that was fixed came into the pack and there was an element of necessity to working out the lesson and I didn't get to follow that particular family all the way through all the iterations because that was a guest that we brought in for my students to practice talking with and it was a very complicated case and very interesting and hopefully they were able to find a good resolution. We're looking at a flow chart here where we start with the major categories of possible resolutions and then we have to go into the nuances and all the different layers and the different options and I don't know where their journey led them in this particular case. But that is a great example where you see one animal just, sometimes they're friendly, sometimes they're not, and it can escalate and that is just a very intense teaching soul agreement when that happens between two animals in your family.

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Now, the deepest extreme, which I'm actually separating out into its own soul agreement, which this is not going to sound like a soul agreement, is what I call the mismatch. We've hinted at it as I've gone along today, but that is where we see our human minds and if you've attended my webinar, intuitive Development for Pet Parents, which I run periodically, you will know that we have two brain hemispheres for a reason, and one of our hemispheres is intuitive and one of our hemispheres is not intuitive, and I'm talking about the not intuitive one for this particular example, it's our left brain mind. Our left brain mind has no access to connectivity or intuition and that's a separate conversation for a different episode. But just for our purposes here, just understand that these types of mismatch situations when they happen in our inner species family. Typically it arises from our left brain, mind, thinking our way through some type of goal that we have or problem we're trying to resolve.

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And the earlier example I used of well, I have an animal who's poorly socialized. They never got the care and attention that they needed when they were a kitten or a puppy or a chick, and I'll just get another animal to teach them the rules of the road. Well, sometimes that works Sometimes, and more often than not it turns into a mismatch. So this is where we're pulling together two animals whose only sole agreement with one another is what I'm calling the mismatch, which is basically we're not meant to be together. We don't mesh, we're oil and vinegar. We do not get along, and that is the nature of the soul agreement. There's as much of a reason for why me, as a homo sapien, will never meet most of the other billions of people that are alive on this planet right now that are available to be met. And the mismatch is the soul agreement. That is actually keeping our energies apart, making sure our paths don't cross, because it's just not advantageous or as advantageous to each soul's goals for this physical incarnation to blend our energies in any way so that mismatched soul agreement keeps us apart deliberately. And sometimes, when our human left brain minds get in the mix, we will think our way and logic our way into adding animals into our existing interspecies family that have a mismatch soul agreement.

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I volunteer at a cat shelter every week and I see cats all the time coming back with tags saying adopted, returned. Other animals wouldn't accept this animal. In most cases it's an example of a mismatch soul agreement. I'm not going to ever say always. There can be other issues and other factors at work and I don't get the full scoop as a volunteer I just get to read the notes on the profile when a cat is returned. But that can be part of the reason is that those animals aren't meant to be together and there's a mismatch soul agreement in place to make sure their energies don't blend. And there's a mismatched soul agreement in place to make sure their energies don't blend. And often that's where we will see the aggression and the guarding and the growling or the biting or just the generalized chaos or the inappropriate elimination, all the signs and signals saying we're not meant to be together Human.

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I know you had good intentions. Nobody's pointing any fingers at anybody Remembering that. When I asked the animals why do we call you pets, they said because we're your partners, empathic friends and teachers. So these lessons are part and parcel of our journey together. So nobody's blaming anybody else, but just understand that this could be why. And once we start to recognize that, we're like, oh geez, I'm sorry, let me take you back so you can find your person. Now I've learned something from you. If this happens to you and you find that you need to relinquish, then just understand. You can do your part to help rehome the animal and just offer the highest vibration energy to make sure this animal lands safely in a family where they were always headed in the first place. So we can have these little stops, these little pit stops that our animals make in our lives.

Speaker 1: 47:42

In a way, my rescue cat, momo, was a mismatch. I desperately wanted to keep Momo. I have always had birds and I've never had a little furry of my own. He would just sit on my chest and purr and I just still miss him and I watch our videos all the time. But he and my cockatiel that's a mismatch. That's danger. Danger. That's a lifetime of hypervigilance. And we tried and it just didn't work. Did I learn something? Did I benefit tremendously?

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And a huge part of that was in the humility that I had to accept of I can't human my way through this and make this work. I can't use my human strength and authority to force something that feels so unnatural. I'm not saying that it hasn't happened. It had been totally natural in other families. I have watched many videos of parrots and cats who seem to get along just fine, but it just didn't happen in our case and there was nothing that I could do to use my human might and authority to create harmony where there wasn't any. So that's a very personal example of my experience with a mismatched soul agreement.

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There were other soul agreements, as I mentioned when we started this episode. That wasn't the only soul agreement at play. I had a very strong, wise teacher-student soul agreement with Momo and temporarily a parent-child soul agreement, since I found him as a tiny, malnourished kitten who hadn't had food and water in several days in our garage. So there were many different flavors of soul agreement that were showing themselves, but primarily it was a mismatch. And now Momo is in a delightful situation. He was adopted with another kitten in a loving lifetime home, and so my part was just to guide him along his way.

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So if you're facing one of those situations, we can always have a session and talk with your animals and find out what is needed. But just understand, there's never a call to judge yourself or condemn yourself. Just allow yourself to learn, because that's really the goal of a mismatch, and the true north in this situation is always in the direction of safety for all. So just if you need a little bit of a compass to help guide your path, just know that that's always going to be your true north, and if you want to schedule a session, we can definitely talk through it. But that will give you something to work with immediately, starting right now.

Speaker 1: 50:13

Now, I promised you when I started this episode that I was going to talk to you about one additional type of soul agreement those of you who are listening and you only have one animal in your interspecies family. So maybe you have several humans and one cat or one dog or one bird or one turtle or one horse or one goat or one chicken or whomever from the non-human animal world has joined your family and that might just represent your interspecies family right now, or maybe it's always been like that for you. For instance, for me, for many, many, many, many many years, starting when I was age eight, I had one bird. Sometimes I would bring turtles into the family for a while and then usually we would rescue them from the bayou. They would be little and often we'd find them malnourished or dehydrated and we'd refresh them and foster them a little bit and then we would release them. But for the most part I had one bird at a time, and so if that describes you, either for large portions of your life with your pet or for your whole life with your pet, then there is another type of soul agreement and it's a form of the mismatch, and typically it's a very intensive type of soul agreement that you share with your animal and it's a mutual soul agreement where the primary partnership is between you and that animal. So it's a very extreme form of the mismatch soul agreement that's basically just keeping all of the other animal energies out of the mix and I call this the solo soul agreement, so the animal in your life.

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We can just take a look at Perky, my parakeet when I was eight, who was with me for 11 amazing years. He had the solo soul agreement with all the other animals in the world. Every so often, like one time, we had a little blue parakeet who landed on the lawn. He was with us for 24 hours before he passed. Here and there I would adopt other parakeets and not to go into that, but for most of our time together Perky and I were together. We had a very strong twin flame soulmates, soul agreements.

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You can go back to the prequel episode and listen to learn more about that. And he had a solo soul agreement with all the other animals. Occasionally we'd have a parakeet or we'd have a baby turtle and that was more like he had a very much just a casual acquaintances, casual friends, soul agreement with them and they would pass on through. So it was really more like a fostering type of a situation or a rehabilitation type of situation. And then it would be back to me and Perky again. So he had a solo soul agreement with all of the other animals in the world. He was with me, I was with him and we really didn't have any other relationships. Either one of us tells you how much I got out as a kid and a young adult, but we were very intensively soulmates, twin flame soulmates together. So if that describes. You just understand there's a reason for that, there's a soul, there's a soul agreement for that and it's as normal and natural and beneficial as all of the other types of soul agreements.

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And so, hopefully, listening through this episode although I realize at times it can get a little bit complicated and just a little bit convoluted so if that feels like the case for you, just maybe give it another listen. Just wait a week or so and give it another listen, maybe even another listen, and it's gonna start to sink in. You're gonna start to make those new neural connections and you're gonna start to see all of the interplay of relationships within your life with your animals and within the lives of your animals with one another. You're going to start to see them open up and reveal their secrets to you. You're going to start seeing the different types or flavors of relationships that are going on between your animals past, present and future. And it's going to start to feel at least if my own experience is any indication it's going to start to feel like you're living in a family where there's so much more equality of energy exchange versus I'm coming in, I'm the human in the mix and then the buck stops with me and it's top-down authority, and for those of us who are animal empaths, and especially if you listen to each new episode and you've been a part of this community for a while, chances are very good that you are an animal empath and you have a very strong desire for energetic equality as best as it can be facilitated within your inner species family.

Speaker 1: 54:48

You want your pets, your partners, empathic friends and teachers to feel like equals, as best as it can be negotiated for everyone's safety and comfort and health, and you want them to feel respected, seen, heard, known to it and respected as individuals within their own right. And it's not about the buck stops with me, even though sometimes that's necessary. Just understand your animals have agreed to that or they wouldn't be in your family. They understand there are certain constraints involved with living in your human world and that's the miracle of the pet, the partner, empathic friend and teachers. They've given up so much to be with us, to comfort us, to heal us, to teach us and guide us in our lives. It's a very specific soul contract, it's very profound in all its different flavors and only a small number, just a fraction of all of the animals alive on this earth right now have any kind of soul contract. Just keep company directly and for any kind of period of time with us, with humans. So that's pretty amazing in its own right.

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But just understand that as you continue to revisit this, just lend a curious eye to the interplay of energy, not just between you and each animal in your family or you and the animal in your family, but between your animals and each other, between them and their inner species, family members, and you will start to see so many nuances. And you can also, if you live in a family with multiple humans and multiple non-human animals. Going back and revisiting the prequel episode talking about the different types of soul agreements we can share with our pets, with each pet in our family, you can start to pick up the interplay and the different soul agreements happening between each human member of your family and each animal in your family. That's got enough complexity to keep your left brain mind busy for a long time to come. And as for the rest of you, thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode.

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I hope this has been enlightening for you, hopefully maybe instructive, maybe encouraging and inspiring for you, and we'll be able to give you something new to explore with the animals in your family whom you so love, a way to get to know them better, to take a deeper step inside their world as they experience it, and begin to perceive how they relate to one another and how they work things out between each other, even while keeping company with you and serving as your pet, your partner, empathic friend and teacher to start noticing how they are teaching and learning from one another as well. So I welcome your comments and your insights. If you have questions about this episode, please do let me know and maybe I can plan a future follow-up episode around those questions. I always appreciate your reviews and definitely, definitely. You're watching eyes over on YouTube If you're watching the video version and you your listening ears here on the podcast. So thank you again for tuning in and I send you all my love. Okay, bye for now.

Speaker 1: 58:16

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