Do Your Pets Have Soul Contracts With Each Other? An Animal Communicator Offers Insight
By Shannon Cutts.
If you’ve been following along with my monthly column, you’ve likely already read about your dog’s soul contract with you. If this topic is new for you, then be sure to read that column as well.
For this column, we are going to take that exploration one step further to explore the soul agreements our pets share with each other.
Just like in our soul agreements with other people and with our dogs, the soul agreements our pets share with each other can be complex. Some will be nurturing, nourishing and supportive. Others will be, well, challenging.
So let’s dive in!
Soul Agreements Explained
Before we proceed further, it is helpful to clarify our working definition for the term “soul contract” or “soul agreement.”
(NOTE: These terms are often used interchangeably, and they basically mean the same thing. So just use whichever term appeals to you.)
A soul agreement is quite simply a pre-arranged meeting.
In other words, it is no accident that you are sharing your life with certain pets, while there are many other pets you will never meet in your lifetime. The pets that are in your life are not there by accident.
In the same way, it is no accident when two pets share life together, while there are many other pets alive at the same time whom they will never meet. This is not accidental – it is a deliberate choice.
Soul Agreements Have Two Specific Functions
The animals have taught me that nobody chooses to enter a 3-D physical body and go through an incarnation here in “Earth School” without having two big goals:
1. Something to teach.
2. Something to learn.
Why? Because we need each other to grow and evolve.
And even though our pet companions are perfect empaths with pure hearts, they still have personal growth goals for coming to Earth School just like we do. To achieve their goals, they need to recruit members of their soul family to play various roles for them just like we do.
Often, our pets will also team up with one another to teach us valuable lessons about compassion, tolerance, harmony, compromise, trust, strength, resilience, and even more.
Our pets’ soul agreements with each other can form between two animals of the same species (such as two dogs) or between two animals of different species (such as a dog and a cat).
Sometimes they even form between domestic and wild animals (such as a dog and a cheetah), a phenomenon that we humans have dubbed “unlikely friendships.” These friendships are often so extreme and unusual they make news headlines and change how we feel and think about the other animals we share Earth with.
Identifying pet to pet soul agreements
Just like with people, our pets will co-create soul agreements for different purposes as they work on where they need to learn and grow and what they have to share and teach.
So just like with people, this means that pet soul agreements may form for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Soul agreements for a reason.
Soul agreements that form for a reason tend to be situational and shorter in term.
A common example would be an orphan puppy who is placed with a surrogate mom for nursing, weaning and basic socialization. Upon rehoming, the puppy will likely never cross paths with her surrogate mom again.
Soul agreements for a season.
Soul agreements that form for a season may unfold over a longer time period or even across the animal’s full lifetime.
A common example would be two dogs who are both adopted into the same family and live together in that family for many months or years. The two dogs may or may not be genetically related. But they have a measurable impact on each other’s life (and on the lives of their human family members) over a longer period of time.
Soul agreements for a lifetime.
Soul agreements that form for a lifetime are those that either extend for the full length of two animals’ embodied lives together or extend out to soul agreements that span multiple lifetimes.
A common example would be two animals who both pass away and then both reincarnate back into the same human family again to spend even more time together.
8 different types of pet to pet soul agreements
At this point, you might be feeling more than a little curious about what types of soul agreements your pets might choose to make with one another.
As a professional animal intuitive, if there is one thing I’ve learned, it is that there is always more to learn! The animals teach me every single day, conversation by conversation.
I share this because the eight types of soul agreements I’m about to share with you are the ones the pets have taught me about so far. There may be more (and I’d love to hear from you in the comments if you have one to share that I don’t cover here!).
- Romantic soul partners.
This romantic soul partners pet soul agreement can be pretty simple to spot! Two animals who agree to meet on Earth for the purposes of bringing new little souls into this world most likely have the romantic soul partnership agreement.
But two animals can also seem to have a close bond to the point where they are snuggling, cuddling, nuzzling, or just clearly drawn to one another in a strong and enduring way that we might call “sweethearts” if they were two humans. Sometimes these two animals are so close we ourselves might even feel a bit like a third wheel in their company.
- Platonic soul partners.
The platonic soul partners pet soul agreement has more a feeling of the old-fashioned term “helpmeet.” Two animals may create a soul agreement to help and support each other. You may see consistent sharing of toys, resources, even time with you.
Platonic soul partners are all about sharing – and sharing equally. One really sweet example from my animal case files is two dogs I met who wouldn’t take treats if the other dog didn’t also get an equal portion of treats at the same time. They quite literally shared everything.
- Parent-child.
The parent-child pet soul agreement is most easily seen in intergenerational pet bonds such as a puppy with his mom dog. But this type of pet soul agreement doesn’t always have to be based on a genetic bond.
A good example here is a very young orphan puppy who is adopted to a family, and then an older animal in that same family takes the puppy under their paw and essentially helps raise the pup.
There can also be what I call a reverse parent-child soul agreement where a young animal takes over caring for an elderly dog who is losing hearing or sight or mobility and that younger animal steps in to care for them just like a parent would.
- Siblings.
A siblings pet soul agreement can be mean that two dogs are genetically related, but it can also simply be two dogs that are of the same generation, live in the same family together and share a specific type of bond.
Often with a sibling pet soul agreement we will find similar types of dynamics to those of human siblings who grow up together. Two dogs who share a siblings soul agreement might go through phases with one another where they will be closer, drift apart, become jealous of the other, compete with one another, or even become inseparable to the point where they intensely dislike being parted. I call these dogs “twinsies” siblings.
Sometimes siblings will grow up and remain together. But often, in the way of pet adoptions and breeder operations, a siblings soul agreement might essentially conclude after adolescence, which is an example of a soul agreement for a season (as we discussed earlier here).
- Friends.
Our dogs can create bonds of friendships with other dogs, and these friendships can look remarkably similar to the different types of friendships we ourselves form. The friends pet soul agreement can span the gamut from casual acquaintances all the way to best friendship.
A true best friends pet soul agreement is a beautiful thing to behold. These animals will often be intensely bonded and like to do pretty much everything together. Because this can look so similar to the twinsies-type siblings pet soul agreement I mentioned here earlier, sometimes the presence or absence of a genetic relationship can be the deciding tie-breaker.
However, many of the types of social bonds that send pet parents to me for animal communication sessions are of a more casual nature. For example, some dog friendships are more about mutual advantage, such as tag-teaming for treats or toys or engaging in vigorous play.
Some dogs are also more social and will have lots of animal friends, while other dogs can be fairly reserved and might only make a friend or two over their lifetime.
- Frenemies.
Frenemies can be an especially confusing pet soul agreement to navigate for us as pet parents. Not surprisingly, this is another type of pet soul agreement that often generates requests for animal communication to help the pet parent sort out why the dynamic is the way that it is between two dogs in their family.
With a frenemies pet soul agreement, you might see bigger fluctuations in the relationship between two dogs. For instance, one day they might seem to get along pretty well. But then the next day they are fighting over a toy or one is territorially marking in the house.
It is also not uncommon to see a frenemies soul agreement manifesting only in certain areas of a dog’s life with you. Here, you might see that two dogs in your family don’t have any trouble sharing toys but they refuse to share their food with each other.
What is so intriguing about two animals in our family who share a frenemies soul agreement is how powerful the lessons can be that they are trying to teach us through their behavior.
- Mismatches.
The mismatches soul agreement is possibly the most challenging of all the types of soul agreements our dogs can share with one another.
The easiest way to describe the impact of a mismatch pet soul agreement in our interspecies families is like oil and vinegar. These two souls just do not see eye to eye and they struggle to find peace between them. For us as pet parents, trying to force them to get along is like trying to force oil and vinegar to blend. It often feels like a chronically frustrating and confusing battle.
What is important to remember about this type of soul agreement is that here in Earth School, we all have free will. So often (although not always) when I see a mismatches pet soul agreement, it points back to a human having a good idea to do what I call “getting your pet a pet.”
Just like us, our dogs prefer and need to choose their own friends. When humans try to force two animals to get along, we often see the animals resort to separating from each other on their own, whether through dangerous behavior, escaping or running away, or even transitioning.
- Solos.
The solos pet soul agreement is a very unique type of pet soul agreement. These animals typically do not form strong bonds with any other animal at all or after they reach adulthood. The reason for this is simple: these animals have come to be a very close companion to a human like you or me.
This doesn’t mean a solo pet won’t make friends with other animals. But it does mean those friendships will nearly always lack the intensity of the bond they share with their human.
One more note about pet soul agreements
To close out our exploration for now, I want to share one more juicy insight the animals have shared with me. Even though our pets will typically have one dominant type of soul agreement with each of the other animals in their life, there can be different threads woven through at different stages of their life with one another.
A common example here is when a puppy is born and initially has a very strong parent-child soul agreement with one or both parent dogs or another dog (or other animal) who serves as a foster parent. Then when the puppy grows up, that soul agreement may evolve into a best friendship, platonic soul partners, or even a solo soul agreement.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this overview of the major types of soul agreements our dogs can share with each other and with animals of many different species, both pets and wild animals.
Shannon Cutts is a professional animal intuitive with Animal Love Languages. One of her passions is to support interspecies family understanding and harmony. Listen to Pet Soul Agreements: Do Your Pets Have Soul Contracts With Each Other on Let’s Talk to Animals podcast.
I think I had two cats with a romantic soul agreement. I adopted a young Tom cat and shortly after appeared a stray cat every evening in front of the house. After we got the boy fixed I did let him go outside so those two could meet. The stray cat was a female. Everything I let my boy out and he could not find his girl he came back to get me to help him finding her. she did the same too. after a while followed him in the house. Later she stayed in the house with him. But I could never touch her her entire life. she has never gotten any kittens either. Both passed away within 3 months of each other.
How sweet that is, Andrea. thank you for sharing it.