: Hi Aubrey,

: I understand what you're going through with Balto. I'm not sure why you want to euthanize him if he's not in pain and you enjoy his presence. Love him and let him love you back for as long as he's comfortable.

: When he does transition out of this life, he'll live on the next plane of life, young and healthy, with full sight and hearing. There, your loved ones or your guides will care for him while he waits for you. When you transition to that plane of life, he'll be among the first to greet you, and those who have taken care of him will give him to you willingly. We're also able to communicate with our pets on the next plane of life. He'll reminisce with you about your lives together on this plane of life, and talk about your lives there.

: I don't believe you're necessarily thinking this, but I wanted to say something else that is important. We on the Earth plane tend to view a body with all of its parts and functions intact as the only desirable body to have. A body that has lost limbs, a brain that is retarded or dysfunctional, senses that are dulled or gone, all seem to us to make the body undesirable, the person pitiable, and life not worth living.

: But the body isn't the person. The body is just a shell, and we follow the rules of the Earth plane as we play out our time in Earth school with that body. Our eternal minds are perfect and intact, but in the confines of a body, we have to act on the Earth plane as the limitations of the body permit us to. But whether we're happy, fulfilled, and learning depends on our minds. We take what we're dealt in this class of Earth school and we make of it what we will, but we're in charge of that. And so a quadriplegic can live just as happily and fulfilled a life as an Olympic athlete can. A mentally retarded adult can learn lessons and be as happy as a Nobel Prize winner in quantum physics. Joy, peace, and fulfillment have to do with our minds and what we do with the functions we have, not whether we physically and mentally have perfect or superior abilities and faculties. Every life is equally valuable for the eternal self, and we must love ourselves and others for what they have, not pity or view as undesirable a person or ourselves for what we or they don't have.

: As I said, I'm just making this point, not suggesting you're thinking this way about Balto. People treat perfection in body and mental faculties as they do wealth. For many, the infinite pursuit of infinite wealth dominates their thinking and life. Getting and owning are of paramount importance. Loving, being at peace, and serving others have little to do with their lives. And so they are on a roller coaster ride of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, depending on whether they are getting the temporary high of acquiring or the temporary low of losing acquisitions. But as Deepak Chopra has said, "Any happiness that has a reason for it is just another form of misery." If our happiness is dependent on having rather than a result of our simply being, then we will be like an addict, dependent on the fix we get from the material realm, miserable even in the midst of apparent happiness because we depend on another fix to sustain it.

: The same is true of the body and mental or sensory faculties. Some in the physical realm are dissatisfied and despondent if their body, mental faculties, or sensory faculties are not as perfect as the most perfect person's are. They are as bound to the physical realm in needing the fix of a perfect body as the person seeking infinite wealth is in needing the fix of more acquisitions.

: However, our joy isn't in the physical realm. It's in the spiritual realm. We will all grow old and lose our faculties. As we do so, we can look forward to the end of our lives in joy and peace, or we can gradually become incapacitated with unhappiness and desperation at the changes in our condition. We can give up the body by transitioning off of the Earth plane at home, surrounded by loved ones, or we can hang onto the last drippings of a painful life hooked up to machines keeping us alive in the sterile atmosphere of a hospital. What we choose depends on our focus on the Earth plane: on the material realm that we cling to as though it had some permanence or worth, or on the spiritual realm, where our minds can have joy, peace, and fulfillment right up to the transition and beyond.

: For Balto, I believe you and Balto should have all the joy you can together regardless of what he can or can't do. Love him now, and when he transitions to the next plane of life, perhaps with your assistance to leave the body behind, he will be waiting for you with great love and expectation.

: Love and peace, Craig

Balto and I are fine. He is eating some cheese with me out on the deck.If I throw a stick, he can't find it. But he has no trouble finding cheese. We both have so much fun.
Thank you for your help,now all I see in Balto is love enthusiasm and joy.
I have learned that we see what we look for.