Coming to Our Senses Re: Animal Intelligence

An old Scientific American article on animal intelligence, is largely about whales and the need for us to come to our senses in how we view animals.

Reading it again is for me a soothing validation of what many of us know to be true about animals. And a confirmation of my own ‘sense-abilities’ as a small child sharing secrets with my equine friend.

The mare was the only person I knew who had the patience to listen to me. And the only one who responded to me with wisdom and compassion. Such as, “Let their remarks roll off your back as gently as I roll your sisters off mine;” words I sensed the mare was telling me back then when I was four or five years-old.

So many of us including scientists realize that human intelligence–still to this day, assumed to be a synonym for our possibly over-developed frontal cortex–makes us different, not smarter than our animal relatives.

When we come to our senses, we  realize that it’s nonsense to continue holding onto the mindset that humans are a superior race of animals.

You already know this, yet, I bet many still hold onto actually believing that eating animals is a dietary choice and not a social justice issue, and that eating animals is certainly not a form of cannibalism.

One way we might be more intelligent or more stupid, is that the human frontal cortex has the cunning ability to control and obliterate just about every species including our own from the face of the earth…except for, of course, the cockroach. S/he reigns supreme in achieving the vibrant longevity we hope to achieve by such misdeeds.

Using our animal intelligence more, so that we are more balanced in using our brain, not only makes us wholly intelligent, it makes us wholly human.

Compassion, empathy, altruism, intuition, language, building communities, building buildings, making tools, making music, making dreams come true, daycare, humor, grief, joy, play, and so on are not human traits or inventions. They’re animal.

Ask your pets.

Just don’t ask them to make their own dinner. Most have been living with us too long to remember how.

The Animal Rights of a $9,000 Dog

Even the mere concept of buying a dog seems ethically repulsive when you can instead rescue a pedigree from a shelter for a couple of hundred or less. A pure animal rights person would never give a penny to an upscale reputable breeder. It’s a strict moral issue among us activists.

But, hello, the $9,000 dog was a rescue dog, after all.

When my client had an animal communication session with me over the phone about a simple issue, I felt that his dog seemed in some respects as emotionally damaged as the standard rescue dog. Scared of almost everything, he certainly was not the true confident dog every canine is born to be. (Rest assured, after a couple of sessions, he now seems pretty confident and happy:)

When we meet people with expensive animals, we might want to think twice before we turn our noses up at them for buying an animal when they could have saved one, instead.

A dog, or a cat, or a gerbil bred solely for profit, is as worthy of a happy life as is any animal in the pound. As is any animal, period.

We are all full of contradictions. We animal rights people judge harshly those who pay big bucks to animal breeders, yet so many of our group breed babies, instead of rescuing them from ‘the human pound,’ aka, orphanage.

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Who’s the True Alpha Dog Here?

We get stuck in human mindsets. We look at a dog bullying and chasing other dogs. We think, wow, that’s a true alpha dog. We don’t question if that dog is in his true power. We don’t look beneath his bravado to see if he might in fact be scared and putting up a false front…like some human bullies we might know.

Sense who the true alpha dog is here:
Leo und Emma - Alpha DogDifficult to know which is the alpha, right? Both beauties look present, alert, and focused.

Since I worked with both these dogs – Julie, the chocolate lab, Frank, the golden retriever – during phone sessions with their guardian, Priscella, I am impressed by who the real alpha dog is.

Julie acts like the alpha. She pushes Frank around. Makes her needs known. Acts scared of nothing. What a beautiful strong, caring canine she is. So intense in her love.  By old standards, she is clearly the alpha.

Frank is gentle, deeply sensitive and caring. Held back…seemingly.

Frank lets Julie be the boss. He allows her to be herself. I sense he truly gets who she is as his caring playmate. He doesn’t feel diminished by her insistence on being the lead dog. He is truly comfortable in his own skin. And because he cares so much for Julie, he doesn’t want her to feel more insecure than she already is.

Frank is the true alpha. The true leader. He is secure enough within himself to allow Julie to dominate out of her need to feel strong. Eventually, because she is so loved and accepted in her often annoying displays, she will lose the need to assert herself so aggressively.

Julie and Frank seem human in their attitudes, don’t they?

They are very much like us regarding our secure and insecure ways of behaving.

And we are like them. After all, we are animals.

And if ever we do manage to grow into the truly loving and democratic animals that Nature intended, we will as a human species be more easily at peace with ‘flaws’ in our human counterparts.

We will graciously create the space needed for even the most aggressive humans, aka, bullies, to grow and stretch into the love hidden down deep within themselves.

Anyway, that’s what nonhuman animals teach me about us.

The Safe…but Sorry Indoor Cat

Do you keep your cats indoors because you’d rather be safe than sorry? I sympathize with you, but…

How would you feel if you were confined to house arrest all your life for a crime you never committed?

To paraphrase Anabel, the safe, but sorry indoor Calico cat, “I feel like dog sh-t.”

During an animal communication session with her and her guardian, I sensed the reason she made it a point to poop outside the box was to make a stink about her solitary confinement. She figured, and she was right, that eventually her guardian would become so distraught she would finally seek help.

Yes, there are speeding cars, and – human and non-human predators whose very presence in your area makes you want to keep your cat safely tucked away until death do you part.

And yes, some cats absolutely love being indoor cats all their lives.

This post is on behalf of the indoor cats who don’t love it, who actually hate it.

Over the years, many a sorry indoor cat have convinced me in my animal communication sessions that they are pretty streetwise and are far more savvy and alert than their guardians might be in the presence of danger.

Know your cat. Trust your cat. Let go, let live. If your indoor cat wants out, let ‘im out.

A life well-lived is a life worth dying for. A stifled life is no life at all. Good as dead.

Our society puts us in control of our cats’ destiny. But the truth is, regardless of what a cat license says, we are not the owners.

Update on Anabel: Last I heard, she was out and no longer on parole; she had listened to her guardian’s request not to venture out of the yard. Traces of  ‘discontent’ in the house naturally became non-existent.  Which made being indoors a lot more pleasant for her guardian.

Every creature is born with the nature-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We do not have the right to take that away from anyone but ourselves. Right?:)

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Animal communicators are skilled experts in animal communication, but sometimes only human in what they tell you.

Again, the limits of human logic:

One late night, I got an emergency call from a client to tell me his cat had been missing for 3 days.

He was freaked out, to say the least. I didn’t have the heart to ask him to wait until morning for a session when I would be fresh and alert like an animal.

Like many of us who would be scared stiff if our pets went missing, he thought the worst, that either his cat died a horrible death or was barely alive in a terrible situation.

But I kept getting that she was on a happy adventure, was not in pain, nor had been since she went missing.

I was right on the mark about that fact. Then, I shifted into being only human:

In my exhaustion, I combined the info I got from the cat with the fact that the caller was emphatic about the fact that the cat had never gone missing in the years that she was in his care.

I made the mistake of leaping to the  logical conclusion – something a nonhuman animal would not do – that since I got a strong sense that the cat was  having a good time and feeling no pain, and that since she had always returned home each day for years, she probably died instantly and went to ‘heaven’ in the jaws of a predator.

Human error number two:

I misinterpreted what I sensed about the cat when I asked her if she would ‘come back’ to her guardian – reincarnate – at another time. I got a ‘yes’ and  the numbers, 6 and 7 popped into mind.  I logically assumed she meant, in 6 or 7 months she would return.

Six or 7 hours later – not 6 or 7 months later – my client emailed me to say his cat returned to him looking happy.

There you have it. I am a real animal when it comes to animal communication.

But like every professional animal communicator or pet psychic, there have been moments when I was only human, moments when I replaced my animal intuition with human logic.

So what’s the point of this self-serving, who-cares confession?

Honor your animal intelligence. Be vigilant. Think more like an animal when communicating with your pets, with any animal including yourself.

Instead of being only human.

Love is Most Effective in Animal Communication

Unlike animal training, animal communication is not about manipulation. It’s about love. Pure unconditional love no matter how long it takes for a cat to agree to pee in the box, or a dog to get in the car.

Bob is an 18-month-old Golden Retriever pup. His guardians spent thousands of dollars to have him fully trained by his breeders.

Not only was the training of no avail, Bob’s self-esteem was low like that of a brutally beaten stray. But he was not a stray, nor was he beaten physically. Just brow-beaten.

When my new client called a few days ago, she said that Bob was so on edge and easily frightened for weeks the moment she picked him up from the breeders.

She called specifically to ask for my help in coaxing Bob to get in the car. He would shudder and shake on the ground by the open car door. He was too heavy for her to lift and put in the car.

During my animal communication session with her over the phone, I asked her to breathe deeply, and relax into the love she felt for Bob, while I also connected with Bob with love. I told him how safe he was, how much his guardian loved him, how much fun it would be if he would get in the car so that she could take him to exciting places to explore.

I recommended to my client that she tell Bob often each day how safe and loved he is, and what fun it would be if he would get in the car whenever she asked him to.

The day after our session, she called to say that with a little
nudge from her, Bob climbed into the car.

Today, three days later, she emailed me to say that “Bob jumped
into the car!”

This evening, she told me how excited she is that Bob seems so empowered and pleased with himself now.

Now, a whole new world of scents and sounds are at his feet every time he jumps into the car and is driven somewhere wonderful.

Love. Love is the answer. It always is.

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Animals are Our Best Communicators

Clear. Honest. Precise. To the point, with corresponding heartfelt emotion driving their point home. That’s an animal for you. You don’t have to be a professional animal communicator like me to know that.

Nonhuman animals don’t put up smokescreens that lay heavily on our hearts snuffing out moments of Truth. We do. We’re polite.

Each day we human animals die a little death with each ‘harmless little white lie’ we unwittingly tell ourselves and others. We hold back our beauty, our truth, our spark, our life, our light. I’ve never seen a non-human do that.

Reverence for life is too strong in nonhuman animals to try to hide from it.

They communicate that loud and clear.

Time we did, too.

If Warm-Blooded Pets Could Write a Book…

…it would be called, “The How to Love Guide, written by your Animal Guides.”

The “Forward” would begin like this: True Love is invincibility cloaked in vulnerability.

Hmm. I hope they’ll let me ghostwrite the book for them.

I’ll ask my dachshund animal communicator muse what she thinks.

What about you? Would you be interested in reading the book?

Would you want to ask – in a free portion of an animal communication session with me – if your pets want to give me input for a book on how to love?

Please let me know. Thanks.

Who’s That Ape in My Mirror?

I just signed a petition asking Air France to stop transporting primates for research labs. Not that any of us are totally innocent of the extreme cruelty inflicted on animals more or less a strand or two away from being human.

Using primates, or any feeling, sensitive, heart-based animal – mice included – in research labs is primitive, an obsolete money-making scam.

Injecting our diseases into animals is an inaccurate method of medical research perpetrated by ‘mid-evil’ humans running rampant in ‘disconnect mode.’ The outmoded practice breeds results inferior to 21st Century computerized medical research technology.

Signing a petition eases my conscience ever so slightly, but just enough to realize how far we have yet to travel in our evolution to where the word, “humane” is truly backed by kindness.

Eventually we might come to appreciate with a whole mind  that the ape in our mirror is us. Like all life, we are quite extraordinary.

Difficult to imagine a world no longer afflicted by pain. Compassion would not be needed. It would cease to exist.

And only joy would be our reflection as the ape, or the mouse, stare back at us.

Your Animals Don’t Lie

Animal communication keeps me honest.

I can’t check my texts and emails, watch videos, bite my toe nails, or hate my wrinkles if your animal is speaking to me. My canine companion should be this lucky.

Multi-tasking is strictly off limits during a phone session, total presence a must…that goes for the client, as well.

When an animal speaks heart-to-heart with me by way of the human on the other end of the phone, I feel pulled, compelled to listen.

In those moments, I have no desire but to hear, soak in, and communicate what comes from their pure depths of who we all are as animals.

We are all in deep communication with our animals, whether we are aware of that or not. Being present in our communications with them helps us hear what’s actually being said, what’s truthfully being felt.

So we can be more honest with ourselves, with them, with all life.