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Would You Like to Know What Your Animal Companion Thinks and Feels? Now You Can!

Written by: Susan Dunn

Web Site: The EQ Coach

Date Submitted: 02/26/2003

Has this happened to you? You know your dog or cat is trying to tell you something, but you can’t figure out what they want. Now you can know what your animal companion is thinking and feeling with the help of an Animal Communicator.

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION—HOW DOES IT WORK?

Animals communicate with us, but the means are nonverbal. They don’t use words. They growl, bark, chirp, stretch, paw and do other things which have meaning. When you think about it, we humans communicate with one another all the time by intuitive and nonverbal means. We sense how someone else is feeling or ‘know’ when a friend is sick, or think of someone only to have the phone ring and it’s them. Using our intuition in an intentional way with our animal companions opens doors for nonverbal communication to happen.

IT’S A HEART-TO-HEART CONNECTION

Animal Communicators are able to open up this channel for us to understand one another better. But can everyone learn it? Yes, say Animal Communicators.

“Animal communication is a heart-to-heart connection that everyone can experience,” says Jacquelin Smith, an Animal Communicator with over 20 years experience (http://www.jacquelinsmith.com ). She has communicated nationally and internationally with thousands of individuals about their animal companions. “You just need to open, love and listen to the animals,” she says. “Interspecies communication is a natural connection many of us have forgotten. It has nothing to do with being ‘psychic’. Animals desire to be heard. They are even more joyful when they know we want this deeper connection with them.”

WHAT DOES CHLOE WANT?

For example, Jacquelin tells this story: “I was combing my hair and had the image of a dish of cottage cheese appear in my mind. I dismissed it, but the image appeared again. I glanced into the hallway and saw my cat companion, Chloe, sitting there looking my way. Then I realized she had sent me the picture of cottage cheese. I had given her cottage cheese for the first time several days before this, and the picture she sent me was her telling me she wanted more.”

HOW DO WE GET OUR ANIMALS TO COMMUNICATE WITH US?

“They’re always communicating with us,” says Jacquelin. “You just have to explore this intuitive connection and I can show people how.” Like any other skill we desire to develop in life, she says, it takes time and practice to become fluent in animal communication.

What can this do for us? Both people and animals benefit from adding this level of communication, says Jacquelin. Besides deepening the connection with our pet and enjoying being closer, animals help us and teach us about ourselves and one another.

COMMUNICATE WITH MORE THAN A PAT OR A STROKE

How does an Animal Communicator do this? Jacquelin works mostly over the phone where she helps owners understand their pets.

“Sue called me,” she says, “because she couldn’t figure out why her cat, Jane, would not use the cat door to go outside. When I asked Jane why, she shot me a picture of the cat door and showed me that the first time she started to walk through it, she got scared and didn’t feel safe. She felt the walls might close in on her. I could feel the fear she felt with this experience. Then I communicated nonverbally with Jane and told her she’d be safe and that the walls wouldn’t close in on her. I sent her a picture of how she could walk through it. The next day Sue called and told me that Jane was now using the cat door.”

Jacquelin can help you get the message across in ways a pat or a stroke cannot. She offers step-by-step techniques for communicating with your animal companion that you can learn with consultations, workshops, booklet or tape.

“I can’t tell you what a relief it was,” says MJ Abell, one of Jacquelin’s clients, “to find out what was going on. My cat was doing destructive things while I was at work, and Jacquelin showed me what to do. It worked like a charm! My cat had been trying to tell me all along, but I wasn’t getting the message.”

Visual images are important, says Jacquelin, especially when you’re trying to work with your animal companion for a behavior change, one of her specialties. Jacqueline is the founder of The Divine Prayer Line for Animals ( http://www.jacquelinesmith.com ), and the author of "Talking to the Animals(c)."

I think I’ll pick up the phone right now because Baby Kittee always meows this time of night and I have no idea what she wants!