Communicating With Animals

[Bailey Guns]

Everyone here knows, like many of you, I really love dogs. I'm sure we all can "communicate" on various levels with our pets. With some pets it couldn't be easier even if they could talk. You and your pet just know what the other is thinking or wanting or whatever just by body language. And, of course, we talk to them just as though they were talking back.

But, taking it to a different level, I have a close friend who's profession is "Animal Communicator". She lives in eastern WA and makes a good living "communicating" with various animals alive, dead or unknown (as in lost). She has some very high profile clients (think A-list Hollywood types) and she also works for average, everyday people.

She's published a couple of books and featured my favorite Jack Russel, Stella, in her first. She had never met, nor even seen, Stella. But Stella was somewhat of a local celebrity from my shop in Bailey.She wanted a story about communicating with Stella for the book so she asked me to email her a photo. I did and she did what she does with the subject.

A few days later she said she had "talked" to Stella. She asked the obvious questions and such that anyone might guess and I was less than impressed and still very skeptical... Until she told me what Stella had said was her favorite snack or treat. She said Stella told her it was pretzels. I was floored. Two people (and one dog) in the entire world knew about Stella and pretzels.

"Dave", who doesn't know my friend the communicator, worked for me at my shop for about a year. Stella adored him. Almost every day Dave would bring a lunch with a little baggie of pretzels in it. Every day he and Stella would go through a routine...she'd beg for a pretzel and he'd give her one. Stella would turn her nose up if I, or anyone else, offered her a pretzel. But she'd eat them from Dave and we were the only people privy to that little tidbit of information about Stella.

So, as skeptical as I was and as I am about the "communicating" thing, I don't know how to explain that.

Anyone have a similar experience?


Stella begging for a pretzel