How much planning goes into the life of a companion animal?

The planning here is less detailed and less intensive. The reason being that the companion animals all have a common mission in the sense of being a supporting actor in the lives of humans. In this respect, there is still planning with regard to where they will be born and some of the circumstances along the way that will be arranged for them to have encounters with needed circumstances to rebalance karma of their own, which is much like humans experience especially because the companion animals are designed to be human companions and human involved, and this makes them vulnerable. In fact, all have had wounds from being disappointed by their human owners, captors, or tormentors as the case may be. This is part of the negative karma of humanity, for example, to right the wrongs they have done to the animal world, but this again is the end product of corruption by the interlopers. The companion animals are very much a divine supporting tool sent in to remind humans of the possibility of love and demonstrate how it is done. If you want to understand how anyone could love unconditionally, get a dog and it will show you. It is not as hard as you might think. It is a function of devotion, loyalty, and an ability to stay in divine alignment, to follow one’s life plan, for that is the life mission and plan of all the companion animals—to devote themselves to human betterment and to gain thereby the giving and receiving of love which is the highest expression life can bring to anyone or anything.