Those are two of the most useful questions a communicator can ask. If you are working with an animal that has a peculiar or unwanted behavior ask the animal, repeatedly, why he or she is behaving in that manner. Find yourself saying, ” OK, why else are you doing this… and why else… and why else.” This is a bit like the ‘Ask for a Question’ exercise I teach in the beginning class. Your goal is first to arrive at all the possible components of the behavior. Then start asking what:  “What would you need or what needs to happen to change this behavior? What else? … What else? ” Again you ask until you have discovered all possible aspects for resolving the behavior. From this perspective you should be able to craft a plan of action for resolving the behavior, which is sometimes as simple as explaining the situation to the animal from a human perspective or clarifying misunderstandings.

 

THIS STUFF DOES WORK…

The following story reminded me of many cases I have worked on where I gave an animal my best advice about how to get out of a bad situation and it worked, which is to say, this stuff really does work. It’s just incredibly hard for us to ever really believe it due to our intensive cultural conditioning. Unfortunately, this says a lot about how easily influenced and manipulated we humans are.

I have read your book and found it really interesting. I have been doing a little practising and readings from photos for a very nice lady who sells horses. One of them reminded me particularly of my own mare, who is extremely sensitive.

 

I felt this mare really needed an owner with whom she felt she could communicate. I had an e-mail  from the woman to say a nice lady had come to try the mare out and the mare was going to be vetted on the Friday. I communicated with the mare and felt her say she didn’t think the  lady had enough sensitivity and she really didn’t want to go. She was asking me what could she do. I found myself saying ‘Well, you could always limp a  bit’ and saw her limping with her left hind. I couldn’t believe it when I  got an e-mail on Monday to say that the mare had failed the vetting as she had been perfectly fine until the vet arrived and then started limping on her  right hind, which I thought was pretty close!      Vivien Wright

YOUR QUESTIONS

Phyllis Oyster sent in the following question: 

Maybe you might want to address this topic on your site. I don’t know if anyone else has experienced the feeling that a new pet is a pet from the past but I have. One of my cats passed in 1995. I now have a cat out of a litter of six that I believe is his spirit returned.  He is buff and white whereas my other cat was all white, but it is not so much his looks—it’s just that feeling that it is him. The litter of cats were wild. None would come to me except  for him. He was not afraid of me from the get go. He walked right into the basement. I started to call him by my other cat’s name  and he responded immediately. I have an inner feeling  about him and a bond just as I had with my other cat. His personality is just like my other cat. Just thought you might want to address the issue of reincarnation. Someone might have a similar story. 

Answer:  I started out in this field not having any set beliefs about any of this. I was raised a Unitarian, so I had very little ideological implanting. The whole idea of reincarnation was new to me. But over the years, in conversations with the animals and from my experiences and those of  clients and friends, I have come to believe that  our animals do come back to us. In my book, Beyond Words, there is a chapter dedicated to such stories. If you have a story about an animal that came back to you, please send it in and share it.

 

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