Community Pet Blessings are very popular with community and city parks departments.  You can also get ideas from the Church Pet Blessing materials and adapt as needed

https://www.uua.org/worship/holidays/animal-blessing

http://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/archive/assets/pdfs/faith/blessing-of-the-animals.pdf

Blessing of All the Animals_ A Sermon – Let All Creation Praise

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UU guide for blessings

BlessingoftheAnimalsLiturgy2

BlessingoftheAnimalsLiturgy1

http://www.textweek.com/festivals/francis.htm

 CKTheBlessingofAnimals608-610

Celtic Thunder Heritage – “A Place in the Choir” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqm-S9J1s_k

Snatam Kaur – Servant of Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrcn85_MPYI

Wikipedia – songs about animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_animals

Songs for Saint Francis Day http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2011/09/songs-for-st-francis-day-blessing-of.html  as document Songs for St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals

The Canticle of Creation (by Saint Francis of Assisi) – Prayers – Catholic Online

Let Us Desire Nothing But God – A Prayer by St Francis of Assisi – Godspace

http://www.textweek.com/festivals/francis.htm

Worldwide or Serving Multiple Countries

United States of America

Internation Association for Animal Hospice and Pallative Care https://www.iaahpc.org/

End with Care https://www.endwithcare.org/blogs/FullPost.php?id=16&gclid=CjwKCAjwg6b0BRBMEiwANd1_SPtt0zc_Sk1jyEHvSUZmX8pH-B0l0r7YHzw-N0UqOFdXPJPa85a8XRoCGfMQAvD_BwE

https://www.ahelpproject.org/

https://www.healthline.com/health/coping-death-pet-loss

Four Things Your Dead Pet Wants You to Know

Document: Spiritual Practices and the animal equivalent

Many of the New Thought leaders and founder had firm ideas about animals, have a look!

Mary Baker Eddy

It turns out that Eddy was a bit of a natural Animal Communicator, there are several examples of inter-species connection given by Adam Dickey in his book Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, 1927

Aut story abo her childhood dog is included here

“An incident illustrating Mary Baker’s unusual mental development as a child is shown in the following. The family had a dog in the house named “Ben,” and when they were assembled in the sitting room the dog was made to understand that he must always lie under the table. Sometimes he would disregard this injunction and would come out and sit before the fire with the family. Eddy said she found out that by mentally addressing the dog he would obey her without her speaking a word aloud. When she saw that Ben was in for trouble, because of his presence in the room, she would mentally say, “Ben, go under the table and lie down,” and immediately the dog would rise and walk under the table and lie down. This, she said, occurred many, many times, and was one of the incidents of her childhood which she always kept to herself.₂

There are also stories regarding her Birds May and Benny as well as with her horses.

IN addition to caring about them and connecting with them, Eddy felt animals would respond to her Christian healing as well, and in 1906 responded to a request from a Christian Scientist in the phillipines:

: “Your favor is at hand. You have my permission to heal the animals as well as mankind. When I was in practice I healed them and found them responsive to Truth in every instance. Please inform me as to your success”

Emma Curtis Hopkins

We know Emma talks of even earthworms seeking their good, but there are few other statements that it’s a little difficult to tell if she’s simply using an animal analogy to make a statement, or if she’s making a statement for the animals at the same time.  Little is written about her personal life but because she’s makes these statements, it shows me she is aware of what is going on around her in the animal world.for example , I don’t think any of your would reference vivisection, which is the use of live animals in medical experiments, as a teaching point unless vivisection is something you care about, I suspect most people don’t think about it at all.

From High Mysticism

it is well to notice what we are ofteniest visioning toward, as it accounts for our personal conditions and our atmospheric infulences.Tell the vivisectionist that his own bodily anguish hurries toward him, and that his subtle personal influence is pain breeding.”

A little bit of a gruesom lesson about the laws of what we focus on return to us.

Also in High mysticism

True mysticism in every age and every land calls the spreading appearances of earth mirage and delusion. What inspirations, what instructions, can possibly arrive as the results of much study of mirage and delusion?”What noble cures, what divine immuneness from necessity for cure have arrived, or ever will arrive from the observations of men in the torture chambers of vivisection?” On the contarty, is it not written that “he that killeth with the sword must bekilled with the sword?”

IN short – What noble cures, will ever come men in the torture chambers of vivisection? Again, the laws of reciprocity.

Those are the brief points on animal activism I found from Emma, but then, just one more student down, Charles Fillmore has much to say about animals.

In fact The 28^th Statement in the Unity Statement of Faith used to read like this: …

”In eating the flesh of animals, we are feeding and stimulating the animal mentality that pervades our bodies. Instead of transforming the flesh consciousness into Spirit, we are adding to its power to bind us to the plane of sensation.”

Fillmore wrote and spoke much about animals.  Five of his teachings were titles?

• Flesh-Eating Metaphysically Considered” – 1910
• Eating and Drinking” – 1931
• The Vegetarian
• Vegetarianism
• As to Meat Eating

There are far too many quotes from Fillmore for me to read them, but most of his teaching was that killing the animal and then eating it was detrimental to the spirit of the man, and a true spiritual connection could not be had if man was putting any creature in danger of violence or destruction.

Spirit has shown me repeatedly that I could not refine my body and make it a harmonious instrument for the soul, so long as I continued to fill it with the cells of dead animals.”
– from “The Vegetarian” – 1920

They removed it from their statement of Faith in 1939, I was unable to find a reason but they did continue to promote vegetarianism for many years.

There was a question in their magazine: “Why is it that people who come into Unity and accept it as a way of life, continue to eat meat?” the inquirer asked. The editorial reply confirmed the vegetarian ways of Charles Fillmore, but added “just as God created in us a free will to make decisions, Mr. Fillmore believed that we had that same right.” It was more important that each individual have the freedom to seek spiritual growth as the individual feels is best, the editor said.

Holmes  The Spirit that is in the dog is the same Spirit. The life principle in the tree is the same thing. There is one Spirit, but there are different manifestations of it.

Looking to the principles/core values We know that All life is One, not only human-animals.

And then bringing to present, Louise Hay, Michael Beckwith

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion. We are profoundly connected to our pets more than we are usually aware of…

I love to laugh, and I live to have fun.  Ever since I was a kid I felt that if it wasn’t fun, it wasn’t worth it doing.  Don’t you think our animals want this too?

Be easy with yourself, your partner, your kids, and your animal companions.  Let mistakes happen and forgive them.  Don’t hold onto the mistakes and mishaps of anyone, including yourself.  Let yourself, your partner, family member, coworker, boss, and your animal off the hook!  Release the judgments, guilt and blame – especially the ones about yourself!  We are all doing the best we can with where we are.  Animals don’t waste a single ounce of energy on any of those and that’s a powerful life lesson that we can all learn from them. Let it roll off your back like water on a duck!

https://consciouscompanion2012.com/tag/louise-hay/

Animals are mentioned in various ways throughout the entire Bible, so here are just a few of the lesser known and hottest trigger points about animals

Psalm 145:9 – The Lord is good to all, Compassionate to every creature.

Matthew 5:7 – Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Psalm 150:6 – Let EVERYTHING that has breath praise the Lord! Alleluia.

Matthew 6:10 – Your kingdom come, Your will be done, On earth as in Heaven.

2 Peter 2:16 – But he (Balaam) received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

Habakkuk 2:17 JB – For the violence done to Lebanon is going to overwhelm you, so will the slaughter of its terrified beasts.

Isaiah 43:20 NAB – Wild beasts honor me, jackals and ostriches, for I put water in the desert and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink.

Mark 16:15 – He said to them, “Go in to the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”

1 Cor 10:31 – So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

Luke 4:18b-19- Jesus said, “He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”

Luke 16:20-21 – And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.

Prov. 6:6 – Go to the ant, O sluggard, study her ways and learn wisdom; for though she has no chief, no commander or ruler, she procures her food in the summer, stores up her provisions in the harvest. How long, O sluggard, will you rest? When will you rise from your sleep?

Prov. 12:10 – A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

Job 12:7-10 – But now ask the beasts (cattle) to teach you, and the birds of the air to tell you; or the reptiles on the earth to instruct you, and the fish of the sea to inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of God has done this? In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mankind.

Daniel Chap. 1 – Daniel and his companions (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) didn’t want to defile himself with the King’s food or wine, he wanted water and vegetables for 10 days. The result was more knowledge.

Romans 8:21 – We look forward to that day when ‘the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.’

Romans 14:20-21 – Gives the principle of avoiding becoming a stumbling block by eating meat sacrificed to idols.

Col. 1:16 – All things were created by Him and for Him and in Him all things hold together.

Hebrews 4:13 – No created thing is hidden from Him; everything is uncovered and stretched fully open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.

Hosea 2:18 – I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the beasts of the field, with the birds of the air, and with the things that crawl on the ground. Bow and sword and war I will destroy from the land, and I will let them take their rest in security.

Rev. 5:13-14 – Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!” The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

Credit to https://www.all-creatures.org/gcm/scriptures.html 

Created and copywrited by Rev.Karen Cleveland animal 10 core concepts