I'd like to share something I just found on George Anderson's website, regarding animals.
George is considered the world's best medium and among other things, this is what the souls he's brought through have had to say about their place on the earth. They call them the "eyes of God" here. The souls say animals are a source of eternal light and love on the earth - "the closest that we will ever come to the Infinite Light on the earth"....and that more people don't realize this because humans think they have power over them. Of particular importance, I thought, was that George said he's warned people in his books and in seminars that the "hereafter considers cruelty to animals much worse an offense than cruelty to another human being." The love and light they exude is "cherished" by the Infinite Light.
THIS is what I've always known in the deepest core of my being and is part and parcel of why missing Nissa and Sabin being here ( and my budgies ), physically, is so excruciating. Not for one day did I ever take their presence for granted and why I knew, w/o a doubt, how ultimately important their lives with me were. It's just SO nice to see the world's top medium ( who's done over a million readings for people in his 40 years of this work ) agrees! Btw, I don't know if he ever gets actual animals coming through as the main focus of his readings, AND he's very $$$$ at $1200 U.S./reading for phone consults ( and in-person readings for 1-2 people in attendance; more $$ for more than 1-2 ). I haven't looked yet, but I also imagine he probably has to book at LEAST a year down the line.
If you are interested in reading the entire article he wrote on this, here's a link to it. His whole website is very interesting, too. Just scroll down to this particular article to read it.
The Eyes of God