Do Animals Say….“I’m Sorry”?

Recently…I had the pleasure of taken care of my friend, Ellie Walsh’s 100 lb chocolate Lab, Kuva while she was on vacation.

Our first night together, I woke up, went to turn on the light, but in the darkness I knocked something over and it made a horrible sound and it woke up both Sam (my cat) and Kuva.
After I fixed everything and got back into bed, I said to Kuva and Sam “I’m so sorry guys for making all that noise.” I heard Kuva say to me “apologies are NOT necessary.”

That got me thinking, I felt a questions being formed in my head. I lay in bed for a little busily forming my questions, and eventually drifted off to sleep. I woke up the next morning and the question had formed. I thought about Kuva and what he had recently been through.
You see, 2 days before he had just been in a fight (well…not REALLY a fight Kuva is a total love bug and not a ALL a fighter) with one of his doggie room mates. The other dog had bitten Kuva pretty badly on the ear, he had to rushed to the vet to have it looked at.

So there we were a couple days after the incident, sitting in my living room, and I asked Kuva “Did Shae ever apologize to you for what she had done?”.
Kuva lifted up his head and looked at me and said “No, not in those exact words”.

I got a feeling there was more to what he was saying so I asked him…
“Do animals apologize for things that they do?”
He said “No, what we DO do is acknowledge what we DID” I asked him what he meant by “acknowledge”. He said when an animal does something like his doggie friend did to him, instead of saying “I’m Sorry” like we do, animals say “Yes, I DID that”. Then Kuva gave me more information. he went on to tell me that animals are SO tapped into their power as creators of their own lives and all that they DO in their lives that they acknowledge and take in the FULLNESS of ALL their actions.

Think about it! There is a BIG difference between saying you’re sorry for something that you created and brought about, like we humans do, and ACKNOWLEDGING that you did something that brought about whatever it was into creation.
Can you FEEL the POWER in that statement?

When you say “Yes I did that” you are taking responsibility for your actions and whatever it was that your actions CREATED. At the same moment, with this honest statement you are honoring the other being’s participation in the situation, acknowledging their powers as a creator in the situation and thus their own lives too. You’re not sugar coating it, making it more or less than whatever it was, or worse saying it without meaning it.
You’re saying “Yes, I did that”.

How many times during the day do we say “I’m sorry” for big things and for little things.
We said the words so much and so often that they have lost their meaning.
And each time you say I’m sorry, knowing that we are not acknowledging our individual creative powers but taking away from who we really are as beings. Making the situation less power-filled and more empty and sorry-filled.

Did the other dog that bit Kuva feel bad for hurting him?, Of course! Saying that you did something does not mean you don’t regret that it had to happen, the point is it HAPPENED, they acknowledge it and move on.

Now, imagine what the world would be like we were more like the animals. That with every word we spoke we empowered ourselves by acknowledging being the creator of our lives and our actions.
Maybe there would be less humans fighting and self-hating ourselves with guilt and shame. We would not to need hurt another or belittle them if with a few simple words we showed ourselves and others that we truly love who we are.

Animals never apologize for who they are (unless we humans try to make them do so) that is one reason why animals are so connected to the Universe (Source or God call it whatever you would like to) and are givers of unconditional love. They accept each other, and us as we are.

This for me was a truly eye opening knowledge that Kuva had share with me.

So I tried it…I said
“Kuva, Sam that noise last night I DID that!”
They both looked at me and said “We know.”

Saying it felt great!