Reply To: blessings for animals (in particular, pets!)

Hello Curiosity, thank you for these insights. This is very interesting….because I know so little about how Jewish prayer works on a daily basis, I had been thinking that maybe prayers and/or blessings were broken down into categories of things, such as the blessing for bread, for lighting the Shabbos candles, etc. I just assumed that, since there are these blessings for things we do with inanimate objects, there would be blessings for the living things we interact with as well. I am trying to find a way to conceptualize things and am very much at sea. Any new information helps so much, so I thank you again!