Pet investment

[Jade]

Guys, I'm sorry, I'm just going off the ratios here.  Given that a cat's average lifespan is 15 years, that works out to be more than three hundred million incarnations.  Plus, of course, that's only the average for cats kept in captivity and who are well cared-for.  The real-world average cat lifespan is undoubtedly much lower, and the number of total lives much higher.  

And how much difference do you honestly think 1 life out of 300,000,000 can make, either way?  

Granted, they're probably not spending all that time as a cat specifically, but the basic point stands.  We are but eyeblinks in the overall length of our pets' 2D existence.   That's both the good AND bad part about having such short incarnations (humans too) when dealing with such huge timespans.  Any given single life rarely makes that much of a difference in the grand scheme.  It's all about slow incremental growth, and lessons learned through reinforcement across many lives.

If you want to feel better about it, consider this:  Like I mentioned, the life of a non-domesticated cat is usually brutish and short.  Plus a lot of them have pretty crappy owners.  If you have a cat (or whatever pet) that you love and treat well, you're giving it a vacation life.  A chance to relax and spend most of its time being happy for a change.  That probably DOES speed its growth somewhat.

However, the chances of any of us personally "uplifting" a pet are pretty darn low, any way you cut it.  Yet it still remains a very nice way of sharing love with other-selves, and contemplating just how hard it must've been for us to get to the level we're at.

(And, of course, the entity currently known as your cat will find its own way back to the Creator, in its own time, as we all do.)

Is this opinion because of Ra stating that the second density state of our planet lasted 4.5 billion years? You do realize he was talking about the state of time that the planet Earth was/has been/is able to support second density life, not the amount of time an entity must spent chained to second density, yes? For instance, Ra says third density lasts 75,000 years. That doesn't mean that one must incarnate for 75,000 years worth of lifetimes to become harvestable. Even on our slow learning planet, some were ready to be harvested at the 50,000 mark. Second density starts in the mineral realm, so I'd say your average dog/cat/horse/bird is a little further along the evolutionary path than your average quartz countertop. However, I do believe like the Elder Race continuing to stay at their level of incarnation for another cycle, that our pets often reach harvestability but choose to live a few more blink-of-the-eye lifetimes with us to learn/teach and teach/learn with us. The life of an earth pet with a loving master is usually a charmed one.

This is all of course assuming a linear space-time continuum, in the grand illusion it really doesn't matter, in fact our pets probably even share the same higher selves as us and therefore are again just more faceted parts of our being.