Day 45: Can we "Own" an Animal ?

I like to watch the Dog Whisperer, I like success stories like tiger tamers and dog whisperers and I like to beLieve they have a good relationships with the animals and that the animals enjoy complying to the requests of their Human caretaker, but do they ?

Today in one of the show the point of the perception that we can Own a Dog, stood out as something odd that is not only impossible, but not right, there is something not right in the belief that we can OWN a dog just because we feed him.

Because this is how this system is owning us, it feeds us, and sometimes it doesn't even feed us, yet the idea that Life can be owned is the trickle down experience of our own beliefs that we can own the Life of other living creatures.

I don't particularly like the Dog Whisperers because he Tames Dogs, I like him because he speaks the dogs language, and I would like that, I would like to be able to understand what other Life forms have to say and to communicate with them, plus I like that he teaches 'The Humans' that the Dogs are displaying their own fears and instabilities, and when the Humans Stop, the Dog stops.

Yet I don't like the collar, the muzzle, I don't like the idea that we want to bend animals to our will, and I don't see this as having accepted ourselves as Equals to Animals, having the same Life Worth, I see that we make of animals our pets, asking them to perform for us and behave as we like, stifling their self expression and reducing it to Circus stuff, that doesn't always turn out as we hoped either, like when the Tiger attacked one of the Siegfried and Roy team and they looked for all sorts of stories about why a Tiger would attack his friend and 'the hand that fed him', as in 'he was trying to protect me', covering up the truth that probably the Tiger was tired to go on tiny bicycle rides around the stage with a Top Hat so they could make money off her and did not enjoy being tapped on the nose with a microphone to 'go back to her place and her routine'. The Tiger did not go crazy, she was crazy before when she accepted and allowed to be put on a bike with a top hat, so the tiger went crazy is not right, The tiger went Tiger, as Chris Rock said.

So, how do we ask to be Equal and One to Life when we do not grant this same right to animals, when we accept and allow ourselves to believe that everything that exists is just Here to please us, when we believe that animals must be grateful for what we give them.

Isn't this the very Debt System we are trying to fight, aren't we the very Debt System we try to fight in our own beliefs that what we do for others must come back, must be paid back, if in no other way in an amusing performance, give me the paw, stand on your head, just remember the hand that feeds you.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that we can own Life

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that animals 'belong' to us, as people belong to each  other, because everyone must belong to someone

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to desire to belong and to believe that everyone must belong to someone

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that 'I am nothing until someone Loves me' as the song goes

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to separate myself from Life to the point that I have no clue what animals are trying to communicate to me when in their presence but I assume and interpret, humanizing their behaviour that could be discomfort and a plea to be released that I cannot hear in my own separation from Life and everything that exists

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to separate myself from Life and everything that exists in and as The Mind, instead of living Here in and as Breath One and Equal with Everything that Exists

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to enjoy the Circus experience and the Zoos when I was a kid even though animals had to be put through sufferings and deprivations for my own pleasure and amusement

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that if I feed an animal, he belongs to me, enslaving the animal to me in my mind as I have enslaved myself to the Systems of the World because they feed me

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to resent the people that fed me because they believed I belonged to them

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to enjoy watching animals 'behave', meaning behaving like we humans want and deem appropriate, instead of seeing I enjoyed watching the slavery of another being One and Equal to Me

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that animals are ferocious, because they attack humans, instead of seeing they have resorted to attack as self defense because we have been attacking and enslaving them through lifetimes believing ourselves to be more than animals

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to feel proud when my mum told people that I didn't fear dogs as a small kid, not even the big ones, because when she told this story I felt more and stronger than the people who feared dogs

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that I am better than the ones to whom animals do not get close, because animals are like children and know who is good and who is not good, instead of seeing that I don't know why animals did not fear to come close to me but it's for sure not because I am good and others are bad, because I am just as Evil as everyone else in and as The Mind

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to support a world where animal abuse is the norm, because it's better to abuse animals than humans and since there are many abused humans we don't have time to tackle the animal point, because they are worth less, so we do nothing for the humans nor for the animals that are anyway way down the priority list of 'abuses to be stopped, instead of seeing All Abuses Must Be Stopped

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that any Life form is less than me and that I The Human, must rule The World because I am the Most Important Inhabitant of The Planet

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that animals exist just to serve us, either as food or as pets or as workers, instead of seeing that what I give I receive, and what I gave to animals Equal and One to me I have received as my own slavery to the system that feeds me and that I have accepted and allowed to turn me into a slave, a pet and a worker, Equal and One

I commit myself to stand up for Animals and their Rights, Equal and One to all Life and to spread the common sense about Life being the Only Value of the Planet that must be honoured and respected in All it forms

I commit myself to stopping my Mind delusions that feeding an animals makes it 'mine' and to see that as I would like to not be owned to be fed, so I will stand as the same principle that the feeding of another is not an act of debt creation, nor a title of ownership, but the Giving of What I would Like to Receive and it must be unconditional, so I may walk with Animals like an Equal, Equal in Breath and Equal in and as Life

I commit myself to stop Animal Abuses as my own acceptances and allowances of their existence as Lesser beings and to be thankful for what the Animals are doing for us while they give up their lives so that we may realize how our very own existence is consuming Life and not supporting it, while they wait for us to catch up to the Evil Truth of Ourselves so we may stand and Self Correct to become The Solution and The Change of this world and manifest a World that is Best for All