God bless the folks who take in animals from difficult situations.   Tasha recently took in a horse from a couple who were evicted from their house.  They were going to send for her as soon as they were settled in their new home.

These folks were hoarders. They had as many as 28 horses on their little acre of land. That’s crazy.  The husband drank a lot, and had little patience.  They raised horses, but you know, they didn’t so much raise them as let them grow up like weeds.

Two months passed without a word, and finally, when she called to say, “Hey, what’s happening here?”  The couple said, “You can keep her.”

Which was a big relief to Tasha, because she loves this horse, and didn’t want to send it on to the dysfunction that is occurring in this couple’s life.

This is a picture of Shay on her first day at Tasha’s.

Everything was great during those first 2 months.  Tasha didn’t do much with her new horse friend, Shay.  She just fed her and gave her attention.  Then after she found out that she was keeping her, Tasha decided to try to work with her.

Now, Tasha is a sweet, gentle, horsewoman. She also takes no b.s. from her horses.  She’s not abusive. She is firm.

So when Shay started acting ugly during their first training session, Tasha said, “We don’t act that way.”  And Shay decided to throw a huge temper tantrum. She turned around and sent two feet into Tasha’s direction, narrowly missing her face.

Then she bucked and kicked and snorted and lost her little horsey mind.

And Tasha called me.

Shay and I talked for a long time.  We talked about how much she missed her old owners.  She didn’t know where they had gone. She didn’t understand why she was at Tasha’s.  She missed them. They were the only people she knew.  She thought that maybe she had done something to deserve this move.

I was surprised by this.  At the same time she was talking about missing them, she was telling me about how being worked with is painful because you get hit on the back and shoulders with a cane.

She said she was confused by what Tasha wanted.  I explained the give and take of a good horse relationship, and how Shay didn’t need to worry about being hit.

What is it like to be listened to?

I showed Tasha and Shay having a back-and-forth conversation, through body language, through the natural intuitive communication we all do everyday (though most of us are not aware of it).

Shay said, “What is it like to be listened to?”

She was very serious.  She had no idea.  I told her that when somebody listens to you, they take your thoughts and ideas in.  And part of being listened to is being a good listener.

She was thrown by this whole idea.  She was a little overwhelmed by the responsibility.

We talked about horses. Shay knows how horses behave. And horses are great listeners.  I said, “People can be the same way.”

Shay asked for two things.  She asked that Tasha never use a lunge whip near her.  That she never ever have in her hand that Shay could be hit with.  She also asked that Tasha approach her the way horses approach one another,  in a circular fashion, not in the straight line of a predator.

Tasha also owns Shay’s sister, Izzy. She’s owned Izzy for years.  When I mentioned the lunge whip to Tasha, she said, “Oh yeah, Izzy trained me about the lunge whip years ago.  Whenever I have anything like that in my hand, Izzy grabs it from me and throws it on the ground and stomps on it!”

Tasha readily agreed to no lunge whip and also to walking in circles.  I think they are going to build a great relationship together.

When new animals come into our care, they can have very complex emotions about the people they are leaving. No person is all good or all bad.  Grief is part of the process.  It doesn’t mean the animal is bad or damaged. It just means that the animal is hurting.  As new owners of these pets, it’s our job and our honor to support them in this process, and where necessary, to teach them how to have relationships.

It is. It is a gift  you are born with.

A gift that we are ALL born with.

The other day, I was doing a consult with a client whose pet had died.  I reached out to him, and he hadn’t passed over yet.  He refused to pass over.

So I contacted her and she said, “Oh yeah, I know. The night he died, I woke up and he was standing in the doorway to the bedroom.  He still had only 3 legs, so I figured he hadn’t crossed over yet. He asked me where my husband was and so I told him that he was down the hall. So he just left without saying a word. ”

“It was freaky,” she said. “Because I just talked to him with my mind.”

This client of mine has never taken my class or any other communication workshop, it just happened.

When an intuitive experience happens to you,  life changes.  And when one intuitive door opens, like you hear an animal talk, other intuitive doors open too.

You’ll find your intuitive senses heightened, which can be a truly amazing experience.  At least, it’s been that way for me.

It can change your life in ways you can’t imagine.

I hope you’ll consider taking my next workshop. It starts on February 1st.  It’s a teleclass that you can take from anywhere.

So, when a mutual acquaintance introduced me to Jane Wiedlin, I was a little starstruck.

I told my friend, Woods, about it.  He said, “Tell Jane that she’s always been my favorite Go-Go!”

I said, “I bet she gets that A LOT.”

“Yeah,” he said.

I’ve had famous clients before, and I think it’s important to respect the privacy of these clients, but Jane is so kind, she told me that I could her dogs’ experience and also, I think they have an interesting story to tell beyond the fact that they are Jane’s dogs.

Meet Malcolm and Angus

That’s Malcolm on the Left and Angus on the Right.

They are brothers and they had several homes before Jane adopted them.

Jane calls them her “two-headed hydra” because they go to the dog park and sometimes they terrorize other dogs.  Also, they were upset when they had to meet new people. Could we work something out?

I talked with Malcolm first. He was interesting.  He shared with me that he didn’t like people that “weren’t cool”.  He showed me someone that he thought was cool. He showed me a man with reddish brown hair and black framed glasses.  I wondered if the glasses were as prominent in real life as they seemed to Malcolm.  Malcolm said that this was Jane’s friend.

When I told Jane, she sent me this picture of her boyfriend Travis.  She thought it was funny that Malcom referred to Travis as her friend.

See! See the glasses?  Yeah, they are pretty awesome.

Little Dogs and Aggression

Malcolm told me that he didn’t like it when people treated him like “My Little Pony”.  He found that “emasculating”.  So, he didn’t like that.  Little dogs tend to be perceived as cute and sweet, and not as small but intelligent dogs.  When dogs have been treated this way, they start to act out.

Also, they are small, so being around big feet and being manhandled is stressful.

The Window

Angus told me that he “likes to express himself aggressively”.   He enjoys picking on smaller dogs.

I said, “Hey, those dogs have feelings. What do you think about that?”

Angus said, “Well they aren’t my feelings, so I guess I’m okay with it.”

Angus and Malcolm are not bad dogs.  They are dogs that lived in situations where they weren’t treated with respect. They didn’t learn about the feelings of others because their own feelings weren’t respected.

So, now, there is this window of appropriate behavior that Jane must find them in.  The window is when they aren’t acting out of fear and also when they aren’t acting out of a desire to “express themselves aggressively”.

I think, in time, they will learn to respect the feelings of others.  They’ll also learn that they are safe with Jane and Travis and the people in their home.

I suggested a positive training technique to lower their anxiety around new dogs and people.  It involves giving treats to Malcolm and Angus when they are in the presence of new dogs, but not so close to them that Jane can’t keep their attention.

I really enjoyed talking with these two.

Mellie had a son seven months ago, and Sherman was very hostile towards the baby. Mellie felt like she had no choice but to put her to sleep.

These choices are very hard.  Putting Sherman to sleep was not an easy decision. It was not made without much soul-searching.

Still, Mellie was not at peace.  Mellie felt horribly guilty and sad. She was in a deep state of grief.

Mellie hired an animal communicator to talk with Sherman on the other side.

Here’s what she wrote me:

I spoke to another animal communicator that I’d used in the past, soon after my dog passed. I was devastated by her communication. Sherman told me through her that I had made a grave mistake, that I misheard all the cues, that I wasn’t acting from my heart, and that I had betrayed her and was therefore now at a dead-end in my life. The trauma from that reading has added to my pain.

I’m hoping that perhaps we can mediate some of my dog’s pain and anger and I can gain some less tormenting insight and closure. I really do feel I did all I could before and after my son’s birth, and after he was 6 months old, Sherman was still becoming increasingly worse in her attempts to attack him – even though I could tell she didn’t “mean to” – it was like some switch was flipped towards only him. No other people aggression.

I felt so bad for her. To put a dog down, a beloved friend who was turning on her baby, and then to hear from an animal communicator that she wasn’t at peace.   I couldn’t tell if the animal communicator was just wrong, or if this dog was just in a really bad place.

It turns out that Sherman hadn’t crossed over.  She was angry and confused.

Here’s the email I sent back to Mellie:

The problem is not that you did the wrong thing.  The problem is that Sherman did not cross over.  So, you’ve got a confused and angry dog in a confused state. That’s why you got such an angry message and also why you haven’t had any peace.   Ugh. That’s terrible.

I just talked with Sherman and we got her crossed over.  She needed to understand that her bond with you was not in question or going away, but that her anger and pain needed to be handled by a higher source.

When I first contacted her, I found her in an old rail yard. She said, “I want Mellie here with me.” I said, “Mellie can’t come here. It wouldn’t be a safe place for her or the baby.”  Then Sherman got very upset and told me that nobody took care of her when she was a baby the way that Mellie takes care of  her baby.   So lots of jealousy and anger.

I located her light, and showed it to her, and it was a field of flowers, bright orange and yellow daisies.  She didn’t want to go into it. At first it was because she didn’t want to leave you. I let her know that once she was whole, she was going to be able to visit in spirit, and perhaps come back in another body. Then she had issues about her not being “good enough” for healing. I let her know that God makes little tenacious dogs for a reason, and that she was precious in her own way of being.

After she heard this, she stepped into the field, and made her way towards the light.

I  contacted Sherman a few days later. She shared with me that she was in a better place. She wanted to walk around with Mellie. I showed her how to follow her heart down to Mellie. It was good to see her at peace.  It turns out that she and Mellie have had several lifetimes together. They are kindred spirits.

If you have a deceased pet that’s angry, that’s spitting mad at you, you probably have a deceased pet who hasn’t crossed over.  It makes your grieving very difficult as you resonate their fear and anger in your emotional system.

I’m really happy that Mellie kept going, looking for a way to bring peace to a really difficult situation for her and for her dear friend.

As an intuitive animal communicator, I talk with pets of all kinds, and wild animals too. I work with people and their pets to solve behavioral issues and improve their relationships.

Olive and Bridget Pilloud

When I talk with an animal, it’s a multi-media experience.

I hear words.

I see pictures and movies.

Animals send me smells.

They send me tastes (lucky me! I know what fresh mouse tastes like. It is nothing like chicken).

I feel the emotions of animals.

I feel their physical sensations.

It’s always interesting!

Animals tell me about their lives with previous owners. They tell me what they like and don’t like. They tell me how much they love their owners. They tell me the details that matter to them.

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