Agree with Stingray's answer. If I can add something more it is this observation. Animals consciousness exist completely in the moment, therefore the description "instinctive".

If you have heard of the recent TV program "The Dog Whisperer" with Cesar Millan, watch a few episodes of that show and you will find amazing demonstrations on how dogs use their consciousness.

You can check out these following You Tube uploads about his work.
(Right click & open in a new window, otherwise you will forget & close the window instead of returning to Inward Quest)

1st link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNA8JbnKU94

2nd link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqHjq-cj97I

3rd link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNudxuz9HBs

In case you are wondering, there is no ulterior motive on my part here, I don’t have a dog, and I don’t have any of Cesar’s DVDs.

To finish off Stingrays stuff:

The huge difference between animals and humans is just the amount of progression needed in the 3 steps of creation.

Step 1- Ask Step 2- It is created Step 3- Allow

Humans and animals all do these 3 steps.

The difference is how much time each one is in what step.

Animals spend a far amount of their time in step 3, allowing. Yes, they do go into step 1, but rarely when compared with humans. Most humans spend most of their lives in step 1, and dependable how aware they are of these metaphysical concepts, the overall suggestion to maintain desires, manifestations, and happiness on Inward Quest is all about getting into step 3 alot more, like animals do failry easily.

If it humorously makes you feel better, animals have resistance issues as well as us humans; but this is again quite rare :)

Hello Pat W, let's remind ourselves that the law of attraction is a universal law that exists since the world began and has been in operation long before humans appeared on earth ... all physical manifestations are subject to the law of attraction ... animals are physical manifestations just like us ... planets are also physical manifestations, here is an article ;

http://whiffsofbliss.blogspot.com/

The law of attraction is that dynamic equilibrium that holds the whole of the physical universe together all the way from atoms to galaxies, including the planet earth and all that is on it.

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well yes they are under the same law. but they are more instinctive or emotionnal. and they also try to learn look at a dog you can teach him to sit to lay down to go take a leak to not pass certain limit to bring back object etc. and they are happy to work for it. it helps them grow they just want a good master. experience and enjoy.

I myself believe it does not apply to animals. If we look at the capacity of thought and the ability to think of what you want as a future deliberate thought of what is wanted then we need to think of it in this way. A underground pool has a shallow end and a deep end, as long as you stay in the shallow end you can not possibly know what is at the deep end. If we compare thought and say the capacity of thought for animals and little children only goes as far as the shallow end of the pool, it can not reach the deep end. That thought is only on what it is doing or experiencing now, no memories of yesterday or preferences for tomorrow, thoughts as those can not exist in that range.

So all little children and animals are innocent and need protecting and watched over because they are fully in an experiencing of what is, not of worry or hope for what may be.

The LOA works because of the matching frequency of the thought emotion and feeling with the objective of those thoughts feelings and emotions of expectancy. If you have no expectancy you can not attract to anything because you are just experiencing what is now, not worried over what may be or sad over what was but just fully in what is.

So I have to say only human intelligence that has evolved to the point of conscious awareness of what could be and what it can have has the ability to have any kind of impact on the Law of Attraction. This is why I say both babies small children and animals do not affect the Law of Attraction.

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Radio waves existed since the beginning and still exist now, they only affect humans because we have the intelligence to use them for talking and music. The radio waves do not affect animals or plants because they don't know how to use them. The Law of Attraction is the same if a thing has no desire but to just be, it can not attract anything.

Nourishment is the only exception I can think of to this.

maybe the law of attraction as we see it
be but a relative reality,
removed from nearing an absolute;
do we know that what we know really is,
do the life atoms of the animal
have less awareness of self-consciousness
or be it less controlled willpower