Do you have one (or more!) animal who is jealous of another? Always jockeying for first in line for the pats and treats? You can use your intuitive skills to address and extinguish that behavior.  First have a talk with the jealous animal, you can do this out loud or through sending thoughts. I find talking out loud easier. Remember, you don’t have to worry how an animal receives, let them take care of that,  or leave it to what I call the universal translator box. Just assume, for the sake of experimentation, that they understand everything just as a human would.

 (A short aside:  there are communicators who insist that you must talk to animals only using images you form mentally. They insist that animals can’t understand any other way. Balderdash and poppycock. I see that that as just another example of people claiming to be more adept, more [substitute any good quality or ability] than animals. It’s utter nonsense, not borne out by all the intuitive communication experiments people have done, and it’s high time that notion is retired!)

In your talk, explain to the animal how you feel about the jealous behavior, what you want instead, and how you feel about each animal involved (i.e., you love each uniquely – explain how and why in detail). Then do go ahead and use an image by making a mental movie of your ideal for how you would like the animals to get along. Explain how happy that would make you.

Observe their behavior. Correct if there is aggression etc., but more importantly, notice any improvement, or shift toward the positive and make a really big deal about it. Not so much in terms of treats, but more along the lines of what you would say to a friend or relative who was acting better and nicer. I like to tell them they are brilliant – seems to go over well.

These and more suggestions for using intuition in modifying bad behavior are in my most recent book, Ask Your Animal. If you read the book already and liked it, it would be great if you could review it on amazon.com.

 

Happy Holidays!

 I’m surprised I haven’t seen this yet driving around my neighborhood! Sad but true.