I was curious as to how many Shiba Inu owners use a pet communicator when they have health issues or behavior issues? I use one and I am training to become one myself. Your pet has soo much to tell you! Recently, during a visit to the vet I noticed Yoshimoto was missing one of her dew claws. I asked the vet what happened and she said Yoshi was a bit snippy when being put in the kennel. I thought, hmmm, Yoshi isn't snippy. strange. Spoke with an animal communicator who said Yoshi was telling her that the subcutaneous fluids they gave her were a shock to her system and she was overwhelmed. She said it was like a headache and made her very irritable. She said she didnt even feel it when her dew claw came off and wanted to apologize for her behavior. Good to know!! Yoshi had been sick for about 7 days and when asked what was wrong, Yoshi mentioned she licked something off the kitchen flow that tasted like a metallic chemical and it made her sick. She also mentioned the salts used to melt snow were making her sick too. Do you have any stories about your animal communications? Do you use an animal communicator?
Interesting! Personally, I am not big believer of the paranormal and have been suspicious about things like this - folks who claim to speak with spirits, pets, etc. This is just my own personal belief; I hold no judgment and certainly respect other people's beliefs. I recall there being a show about a woman who is a pet communicator. National Geographic or Discovery channel perhaps...
Just curious though, did you have to give your Pet Communicator a lot of the background information? For instance, did you tell him/her about the pet visit and the subcutaneous fluids? Or about what chemicals were on the kitchen floor?
I've never met with one so I don't know how the process works. Would be cool if you could give us an overview of how your visit with the pet communicator worked!
Leo "JD" Hu | Cream Shiba Inu | DOB: 8/19/2011 | Southern California - LA/OC
I'm interested and skeptical. I've seen all sorts of mysterious things, so I'm not saying I don't believe people can communicate with animals in this way, but for me, I suspect it is pretty rare. Still, fascinating subject! What is your training like? How do you learn to test your feelings to make sure they are true? (I'm taking some intuitive healing classes with my massage studies, and we do a lot of testing our impressions agains the person we're working on so we learn how to discern what is our stuff and what might actually be true for the other person, but I don't know how you'd do that on an animal!)
I had a housesitter once who was also a pet communicator, so I decided to try her out in that capacity as well. In the end, I was a bit dubious of this particular animal communicator (which doesn't mean there aren't other people who might be good at it). A lot of stuff either didn't ring true or wasn't useful. She noted my dog's preferences, some of which simply weren't right, and some stuff was obvious, such as Bel wants to hunt and needs to go out at dusk. And Toby wanted to ride the motorcycle, which was interesting because he always jumped up and put his paws on it, but it was also a pretty observable thing.
But there were some odd "hits" that were interesting, such as the fact that Bel was scared when she stayed at my friend's house because there were too many "voices" and "yelling." This initially puzzled me as my friend lives alone and is not a yeller. Then I realized several things: one, Bel is super sensitive to noise, and 2) my friend has parrots. That yell. Sometimes they yell at the dogs "No!" "Outside!" And also, my friend leaves the TV on 24/7. There wasn't any way for this housesitter to know that, except that I had told her that Bel didn't like staying at my friend's house.
So...I don't know. I think she hit on some things she probably couldn't know normally, but a lot of things were not terribly useful. (And then she went into a long thing about alien abduction that just kind of freaked me out, so......) I probably wouldn't pay for it again unless I had a real strong sense the person was quite good, but I still find the topic quite interesting, and hey, since I live near Santa Fe, there is a lot of this kind of stuff going around, and a lot of people do it! :)
@LeoJDHu Good questions. I have my pet communicator session by phone. I contacted her to let her know my dog was very sick and I needed more info from the dog to find out what happened. The communicator connects with the dogs energy and then relays what the dog is sending her. I have my dog sit next to me during the call.
I am a very grounded person and very technical. So I am working with computers all day and logic. I live in Boulder, Co. and it can be a bit "airy fairy" for me. I have been studying holistic health for about 15 yrs. But this communication, while not common, really helps me with my dog.
When I first got her she had behavior problems and was throwing up alot. Chewing up things, etc. Spoke with the communicator and all those problems were resolved. Dog had alot of anxiety that she would have to return to her old owners and requested specific foods to help her stomach.
My dog got a vitamin b shot and subcutaneous fluids (which created a BIG belly of water to carry around until reabsorption. She knew which shot made her lose it. I don't use chemicals on the floor but my boyfriend was working with chemicals- paints, glue, waterproof spray,(had to ask him later) so I didnt have the presence of mind to relay that to the communicator.
My process is this: If dog is sick > Go to Vet and get all lab work done and exam > then contact Animal Communicator > then go to Holistic Vet for treatment and herbal meds.
My vet was so amazing with all the information I brought to the appointment, that she wanted the number to the communicator I was using. She felt the medical info was right on.
@shibamistress It is healthy to have a very strong sense of skepticism. If your being trained to testing your impressions against the person your working on, you could apply those techniques to your pet as well. I prefer muscle testing and learned with Dr Kam Yuen, 35th Generation Shaolin Grandmaster.
So you would make sure you were asking is this mine? So glad to hear you have the presence of mind to account for the fact that we have the ability to process other people stuff. Dogs do this too. If I am going through something, I have to make sure to let me dog know she doesn't need to help process this with me. Some dogs and care givers want to take care of us.
I am doing a program with Dr. Schulz, doctorate in behavioral neuroscience, who is offering medical intuitive courses.
Great story about the dog mentioning the yelling parrots! That was a good hit.
Trust that the more you progress with your intuitive healing course, you will be able to detect those who hold more integrity in their work. Your communicator should have asked if it was ok to share more with you. And her guidance would have told her, No! Do you know what I mean?
It is important to take control of the session and ask the right questions about your dog for your dog.
Very interesting, especially the fact that this is through the phone and the Pet Communicator didn't have to see your dog at all.
Opening my mind completely for a second here - if what @sunyata says is true about dogs lacking comprehension skills to equate an action with a consequence that follows hours/days later, perhaps this Pet Communicator could be a "psychic" in general and chooses to market her abilities in a niche pet market. Maybe?
All in all - very interesting story - thanks for sharing :]
Leo "JD" Hu | Cream Shiba Inu | DOB: 8/19/2011 | Southern California - LA/OC
@LeoJDHu while I respect the views of @sunyata I of course don't come from the same school of thought. Just as we are seeing a new appreciation for dogs that detect cancer, seizures, or low sugar of diabetics, their is also a new understanding of the different levels of consciousness of these wonder animals.
I am just wondering how many pet owners are open to a new perspective of working with their dogs. I think your right, many "sensitives" or "psychics" will work on their skills with the animals if they are drawn to them and can cultivate that type of communication.
I appreciate your capacity to hold space for something new even just for a second. :)
Interesting. In short, yes I believe there are people who are very adept at reading body language and in tune with critters more than others. It seems silly that the service is offered via phone. To me that is like phone fortune telling. People can spend their money how they want, but to me the motivation is clearly about making money on the gullible with the phone palm readers and such. It doesn't make sense to me that someone who can't see or touch my pet would be able to tell me what it's thinking.
Now, I have sat in on an animal communicator session with a friends Shibas...but it was in person. I put more stock in that, than a phone call. It was fun to watch, and I do think this particular person had very good body language reading skills and was able to pick up more about the animals feeling than most would, and the owner found it helpful. I do not believe there was a "Dr Dolittle" event going on however, where the dogs were dictating verbatim in English what their thoughts were to her.
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@lindsayt I know! It's interesting that we can tune in even from a far. Good to hear that you sat in on an animal communication session. I have experienced a few phone sessions with folks that can sense the energy and tune in. It's a good skill to have.
I don't have regular tv but do have Apple tv which means none of the mind numbing / brain washing commercials. And on the podcast section is a series from a woman that calls herself the real Dr. Dolittle. So corny. But she shares her experience with her clients/ animals.
I have yet to listen to the whole series of podcast but it is good to know what is out there.
@sunyata I will say in learning theory, they do speak about howq most animals can remember many hours, even a day later, when something they ate made them sick. Mice are best at it, but dogs can do it as well. I forgot the exact name of the phenomenon, but to test these theories out they would have the animals eat something novel, then eject radiation in them to upset their stomach. The animals would then avoid that food. Many behaviors centered around primal things are animal things, not people things. We are not even the best in some of these categories. A lot of the ways we learn are very similar to animals, even the time it takes. With most training, your best window is a few seconds, but when it comes to that one particular thing about eating its a lot longer. It makes sense. If dogs couldn't tell what made them sick, their succes as scavangers would not have happened.
@Inoushi - There is a problem with that study... The dogs were not avoiding the food because it made them sick. They were avoiding it because they got a rather large stick immediately after eating it. Also, most foods/poisons act more slowly than radiation, so a dog equating getting sick hours after ingesting something does not happen. If it did happen, then why does my dog still insist on wanting to eat pork when every time she does it makes her violently ill a couple of hours later? (And this is not a phenomenon specific to my dog, it happens to ALL dogs.)
This also goes with training. You know the advice that you always hear that if you do not catch them in the act, do not scold them. This is because they are not equating you yelling at them with something they did a half an hour earlier. Same thing with praise... Praise as the action is happening, not after.
I have an easier time understanding a 'psychic' telling @stralim that her dog ingested chemicals than trying to understand a 'communicator' on the phone telling her that her dog told her that was why she got sick.
Casey, with Bella and Nola, hanging out in the mountains of Virginia. I Wander, I Ride
@sunyata in the studies I have seen, the doses of chemotherapy were spaced out. It may be easier for lab animals when they only have choice A and B. However my rottwiler does display this when she gets sick, but she is also a lot smarter than other dogs, her vocabulary alone is over 100 words and pictures. My mice have done better than any dogs though. Taste Aversion I believe it is called. Its been up for debate, but so have a lot of things in learning theory. I've had the great luck to be taught by someone known in the field at large, and he does have experiements where animals were rewarded with significant delays. They didn't score as high as their peers, and it took longer, but they did learn.
My mother has a friend who is really into the 'remote healing', and sensing good and bad energy to gauge the balance in your life. She goes on ad nauseam about conversations she has had with a snail, or a woman in Florida. We know she isn't mentally well (because of other events. Not because she tells us she talks to snails), but she has convinced herself of things and can be very confident talking about them.
I tend to think of 'mediums' in a similar way. They have come to believe that they can communicate on a different level then what is the norm (true or not). I generally have no problem with them but I wouldn't actively seek one. Some people are just very good at reading body language and can seem to get 'right answers' from nothing.
I'd personally take anything they say with a handful of salt. You can find out a lot about your furry companions by observation alone.
Dunno why I went into that rant...anyway! It is always fun to read/hear about things like this regardless of my opinion. :)
@Mongiz Yikes. Sounds tragic. Lots of lost souls out there. I've worked with the mentally ill population during college and it was helpful to see the difference between people who are more mindful or sensitive to their surroundings and those who needed a psychotherapist and psychotropic medications. I've also worked with gifted kids and learned alot about how a person born with certain sensitivities/gifts can develop skills that assist them later in life. Those skills can prove helpful in all aspects of work, relationships, play, health, etc.
im also a pet communicator...when brewster bites things i can sense that he wants to bite something...when he pees he thinking "ahhhh feels good"...when he eats something and spits it up hes thinking "wtf why would you feed me that CLEAN IT UP NOW HUMAN I AM YOUR MASTER!" i am only joking and have a dryu sense of humor dont take offense please i just look to make people laugh on a regular basis :D
I think animals might learn to avoid foods that taste bad or that make them ill. How else would animals consistently avoid eating a frog or insect that is brightly colored that may be poisonous. The bright color works so well, in fact, that many non-poisonous animals adopt characteristics of their toxic friends to reap the same benefits.
Obviously that's a predator-prey relationship, not a dog-kibble one... It would be interesting to see a study where the dog got sick from eating a substance that actually upset the dog's stomach, not getting sick after from something external like radiation.
I will add my experience. I believe in psychic ability, but at the same time believe there are a lot of fakes out there. I did once call an animal communicator years ago - I think on the recommendation of some one on an e-mail group. She said some very general things that could apply to anybody, but she did get one thing very accurately: I asked about my shiba Kenji (who was probably about 2 years old at the time). She said that there was some sort of injury to his legs. I though he had very slight luxating patellas, because he sometimes "kicked out" his back legs when walking, so I said yes, maybe he had a luxating patella. She told me no, it is his front legs and that when he gets older to watch because he may get arthritis. I had no idea what she was talking about. He did have some small bald spots with tough skin on his front legs, but I never told her that or knew why he had that. I later e-mailed his breeder and asked why Kenji had these small scars on his legs. It turns out that he had been hit by a car as a puppy and had to have pins in his legs. How would the communicator know that? It was over the phone so she had no way of seeing his scars. She also told me that one of my cats really wanted me to buy him one of those beds you attach to the window sill so he could look out the window. I did buy one, which my cat loved. So it was fun, and I don't regret spending the money, but I never did it again. I have so many pets now (7) that it would be interesting to do that again, and it would be a long session with all the gripes and wants and needs of all my pets!
@Rhondabee Your right, there are many who don't hold the same integrity in their work. Or folks who don't have good boundaries, will project their own beliefs which can pollute the communications. So always have your filters up to detect any hits you get that aren't true enough. Your body will tell you.
The communications come from images, feelings, taste, or sensations sent to the communicator via the dog. They don't diagnose themselves, just send the information. You as the owner of all these pets, can ask them to send you mental pictures of what they want to tell you. Cultivate that level of communication. It can be fun. But trusting what you get is the biggest challenge.
What I love about your post is that you held space for the possibility that the communicator had something worth while to assist with you when working with your pets.
If you do get another session, you could make a list of what is the top concerns you have for the 7 pets. (i.e. questions about nutrition- desires and dislikes, behavior challenges, physical challenges/pain, exercise needs, comfort needs, relationship needs between other animals or between humans, vet preference, etc.) You probably have a much longer list being the guardian of seven lovely pets!
I am going to preface this by saying that I am a skeptic.
I do believe there are some people out there that are very adept at reading animal body language. Dog behaviorists come to mind, who will be able to assess how your dog is feeling and help to pinpoint why. However a person that claims to be able to do that over the phone... I simply cannot believe that. While I think there are psychics or what have you out there that honestly believe in their powers and are not in it to cheat people, most of them are simply adept at reading people and telling them what they want to hear. Do a google search for cold reading and you'll see what I mean. These psychics make vague suggestions or statements, and only "hit" due to input from the person they are reading.
It's pretty easy to say sub-q fluids made your dog feel under the weather. I might be impressed by this if you had not told her anything about the vet visit. I do NOT believe your dog feels "sorry" for being nippy - this is pure anthropomorphization. This is an example of telling you what you want to hear. If your dog nipped s/he had a reason for it. I am also inclined to agree with @sunyata about licking the floor and being sick hours later - I think the only way a dog could comprehend this is if the substance was the only thing the dog licked/ate for the whole day. Side note about taste aversion - it is highly developed in rodents since they can't vomit. Also, I want to note that "a metallic substance on your floor" is a very vague statement. Again that goes back to the cold reading.
I also had a little chuckle about the window thing for cats, because I have never known a cat that doesn't love to sit on the windowsill and look outside.
Just to wrap this up... I am sorry if this is offensive at all because that totally isn't my intention. I definitely don't mind when other people have differing opinions, the intent of this post was just to explain why I personally am skeptical of psychics and their abilities.
No, I don't believe pet communicators will "connect with his energy". He's a dog, he works on instinct not on moral and philosophy. I do believe the people making a living out of talking with animals are people who love animals and are very good at reading their body language, as many others have already mentioned.
If other people want to spend money on this sort of thing, fine. People can believe what they want to believe.. that's one of the bonuses we get from living in free countries. But I'm not gonna spend my money on this kind of stuff. :) <- adding a smiley so I don't seem angry, I'm really not!
I have to add regarding the window bed and Ziggy. The communicator told me specifically that Ziggy wanted the window bed. I didn't have one in that apartment and the window sills were narrow, so not comfortable to sit or lay on. How did Ziggy come know to ask for one of those beds? I had one in a previous apartment that he used. Assuming the communicator was really communicating with Ziggy, he must have remembered his old bed. She also told me that Ziggy told her that he was very beautiful. Yes all cats believe they're beautiful :) But I often told Ziggy that he was the most beautiful cat in the world & I guess it went to his head:) One last comment - I only gave her the basic information about whether my pets were a dog or cat and their names & I think maybe coat color, & my address so she could locate us on a map. That is it. I asked one question about how the cats felt about the dog and that is all I asked. I'm not offended if anyone is non-believer or skeptic & hope no one else is offended either. Discussion is a good thing.
I too am am a skeptic. But I keep an open mind. Paranormal phenomena, with a history of superstition, myth, magical thinking and sometimes outright fraud does not preclude the fact that there might be a valid phenomena that occurs.
When I first got married we went to visit my wife's family in the Philippines. I had to go back to the states earlier than her for work. When we were discussing when she should come back to New York I told her to leave the Philippines no later than July 15. She asked me, "Why July 15?" and my answer, "you can have and earthquake or something".
My radio alarm woke me up in the morning of July 16, 1990. The news report that was on...
"Earthquake rocks Manila, major damage reported". I was not shocked. It took me 3 days to finally be able to contact her. Luckily, no one in the family was injured.
The Cern collider promises to provide measures deeper into the subatomic world and provide new data about the behavior of subatomic particles. Testing and measuring paranormal phenomena can prove to be quite diffilcult but does'nt mean it does not exist. Just because I cannot directly experience the behavior of subatomic particles (let alone understand the advanced physics) does not mean they are not real.
Unexplained phenomena occurs all the time. Scientific explanation awaits.
@Nekopan, thank you for your comment. Your not offensive in the least! Experience is the thing I am trying to relay here. I don't want you to believe anything you haven't experienced for yourself. My experience with this sort of thing has been phenomenal and I wondered who else has had these experiences as well.
I don't try to test the woman I use for animal communication, I work with her to get the info I need to make sure my dog is ok. It's just another level of communication.
@Rhondabee There is nothing offensive coming from your post! Your first hand experience is interesting for us to consider when questioning this sort of thing. And the fact that you had the capacity to receive the information that was being offered and took action to make your pet have a more comfortable life is even better. And this is the point. Finding ways to work with our pets to make a better life for them.
@INU RYUU Thank you for sharing your experience. Nailed it! I love the fact that the message came straight from you to arrive home no later than the 15th. You can't deny that while you have no logical reason to know about the upcoming earthquake, an aspect of your being knew to warn your wife to come home.
You have direct experience that will change your whole aspect of being. How many times have you been able to do this in other areas of your life?? Or labeled as coincidence?
Btw, have you read about United States government-sponsored remote viewing program? It's the ability to triangulate on a certain area with coordinates given to gather intel. A $20 million research project and they weren't studying magic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
@stralim, preminitions have occurred to me to many times to be a coincidence. Its weird that I just know without any conscious thought. I am also familiar with remote viewing. I like to think that these "ESP" experiences are the result of a primative survival adaptation that have been obscured by mankinds cultural evolution.
@INU RYUU So glad you recognize how you are hardwired. And it occurs to me that the info coming through has nothing to do with conscious thought, so that gets our "monkey mind" out of the way. Kinda see it like a radio signal and yours is fine tuned! A primative survival adaptation to Cultivate. Thank God many are waking up from mankind insisting to culturally devolutionize us by keeping us dumbing down /unaware of our basic capacities as humans.
