Connecting with Animals

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Comment by Deb 11 hours ago

Hi, all! I've just found & joined this great group and wanted to share a bit about my own connections with animals.

Like many others do, I like to say "I was born this way" when talking about my love of and connection to animals. Beginning with my 1st 2 budgies in my youth, it was apparent I had a connection with other species that defied the "norm." But it was my 2 feline furchildren (now angel-kids) in my adulthood who were the most prominent CATalysts for me into all things metaphysical, esoteric, 'supernatural' (which I now think of as "natural"), spiritual and the like, beginning over 20 years ago. I've come to know that our souls had already predetermined our shared journeys together, that we've been together in other lives before and will never NOT be joined forevermore. In short, I owe them everything, for all they've taught me & helped me grow into.

I was so wholly bonded with both of them that telepathic communication was such a usual daily occurrence/experience that I didn't even fully recognize it as such in the early years...not before more and more of what I became interested in reading started giving me clues to its actual existence. Once I could clarify this, though, there was no going back!

My fur-son, in particular, was adamant about teaching me the principles that "there is NO separation" and "the Mind is not limited by the body." Reading "A Course In Miracles" concurrently also helped in this understanding. I would run my own, little experiments to prove these things to myself, such as calling him in my head when I was worried as to his whereabouts, after which he'd most usually show up and plunk himself down in front of me within about 5 minutes. :-) Other times when he didn't show up soon, I would get hits of claircognizance that told me he'd just been "too interested" in his activity to break himself away from it, thank-you very much.

Even our first meeting (when I adopted them) was Divinely Orchestrated, mainly by my fur-daughter, who worked through my now-husband to lead us to them. I'd foolishly gotten it into my head that I wanted only ONE cat, and s/he had to to be a GREY cat. (it was silly 'reasoning' at the time, but that's the story, all the same) The only other idea I had was that I didn't want a black cat. (more ridiculous thinking on my part at the time, being young and ill-educated about so many things) And at the time, I did want young cats or kittens, to be able to share their whole lives with them. The very 1st time we went to our local Humane Society, the only youngsters were my two - my girl, solid grey!, and my boy, solid black! - siblings, whose other sister had already been adopted out. Longer story short, I KNEW they were meant for me and snatched them both up straight away. Thank goodness I listened to my own, Inner Voice!

My journey with them led me into many awareness-building areas, from Animal Communication (still building upon that), numerous alternative healing methods & whole food diets for animals (and humans), and a continual evolution of my spirituality.

Their transitions left me so bereft that I knew I needed a newer way to continue to not only help ALL species of animals, my closest kindred spirits on earth, but to help elevate their perceived status in the world as well. Awhile after my fur-girl's transition (at close to 20 yrs. old), I was divinely guided to Reconnective Healing™ and have made animals my most passionate focus in this newer modality. What's extra music to my ears about this is that I've found it is enhancing my animal communication abilities as well, so I'm able to incorporate some of that, too, during their healing sessions. It gives me no end of pleasure to work with them with such ease in these two ways! Interestingly, it was a RH practice session with a baldheaded eagle that also enhanced the feel of these palpable frequencies for me. So as I help 'them,' they help 'me,' because we're all so connected and there really is only One Being interacting with Itself in various forms.

Therefore, nothing about these close (and much needed!) bonds, energy-type work, or communications with our animal brethren surprises me whatsoever. To me, it is the NATURAL way of things and how it was supposed to always be. It is more surprising to me when people don't recognize and acknowledge this, despite the evidence right before their physical eyes, or in their hearts. Through the beloved animals, I've discovered I carry the abilities of all 4 "clairs" within myself. It's only a matter of "practice makes perfect," for all of us. Now who could NOT be utterly grateful for such magnificent teachers, as well as our own willingness to open to them?

As it always is, it's wonderful to meet others who are more open to animals and all their inherent worth and I look very forward to the day when this is all totally common knowledge.

Comment by Carolyn Nau on September 15, 2009 at 1:26am

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Comment by Renate Grupp on August 11, 2009 at 6:04pm

Since I was about 3 years old and walked up to a chained watchdog who was barking like mad and calmed down as I approached him - my father watched panicstricken but felt it was too late to interfere - I have always known to have special bond and communication with animals.
Recently I was watching a sad movie and I was choking with tears running over my face. All of a sudden my cat approachedme watching me intently and with a very apprehensive look on her face. She then started licking my hand, looked at me agin reasureringly I have to call it and lay down by my side.

Also my yorkypoo not only rings the bell that we have hanging on the door for her to reach when she needs to go out to "do her business" but also rings it when the cat wants out or in. She seems to know in advance that the cat is approaching the door and wants to come inside.

Recently I had left my teawater boiling in the kitchen but forgotten about it and was sitting in the backyard when I heard a scratching sound. i turned my head and saw my cat scratching the window. Thinking that she wanted to join me I opened the door for her but she returned to the kitchen where the water kettle was steaming away the last bit of water. It was then that I realized the cat had called me for that reason.

Comment by Carolyn Nau on July 31, 2009 at 3:50pm

oops I'm so embarased...I accidentally added the comment about 4pawcreations under the wrong log-in, this should be as Carolyn Nau, not BioElectric Shield (my other alter ego). So sorry.

Comment by BioElectric Shield on July 31, 2009 at 3:47pm

We finally did it, www.4pawcreations.com is alive and well. I told you in April about the collars I'd made for 3 sick dogs. Since then I've been grateful to be able to tune-in and help some more dogs - one had been traumatized by a marauding German Shepperd, the others were "rescue dogs" in need of some emotional and physical healing. We don't have any dogs at the moment but plan to adopt a couple when we get moved soon. So it's been absolutely wonderful for me to be able to tune-in to these dogs and create something healing specifically for them. It's been fun to I started a twitter account for 4pawcreations last week and have been having fun conversing with and enjoying stories about people and their pets. Even without personally having a dog adopt me yet, I've been thrilled to be able to connect anyway. Just shows that there are so many ways of Living the Field if you follow your joy.

Comment by Carolyn Nau on April 24, 2009 at 3:35pm

There's a reason we feel somewhat healed after petting an animal...I believe they are constantly sharing their unconditional love with us.
Still in the planning development stages, I am taking my "jewelry with intention" www.carolyncreation.com and expanding into creating collars and jewelry for pets. Working on standard designs for specific breeds and their needs - but have also been doing custom designs for a friends sick dogs. Stay tuned for new about 4PawCreations.
How many times have I been down and had my cat come curl up with me? I'm honored to find a way to give back to some of our furry friends.

Comment by Alice Bartholomew on June 24, 2008 at 5:53am

After reading these comments and discussions, I thought of an unforgettable experience I had communicating with a mouse that taught me wonderful compassion. (Story attached)

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THE CAT AND MOUSE HOLOCAUST by Alice Bartholomew - From All Creatures ...
stories about human and non-human animal relationships, happy, sad, funny, Others tell of humans turning to God because of the death of a non-human animal, They will ...
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THE CAT AND MOUSE HOLOCAUST
By: Alice Bartholomew aiw777@yahoo.com

I am slowly awakening from a deep sleep to unfamiliar sounds - short, shrill squeaks. I reluctantly climb out of bed and turn on the light. My two young cats, Peace and Joy, are tensely crouched at the closet door with tails twitching, intently staring at something. Suddenly a MOUSE streaks past me and runs under the dresser. Sleepy and startled, I stand in amazement. I am very new to being a cat guardian so am at a complete loss as to how to handle this situation. The thought that women are supposed to be afraid of mice ... and cats are supposed to catch them crosses my mind. So I pull the dresser from the wall for easier access. The cats start for the mouse and SUDDENLY it runs back into the closet. The cats then stand guard at the closet door as the mouse continues to squeak intermittently. I am realizing that this is probably their first encounter with a mouse, it is 3AM and I am very tired. I decide to lie down and actually start to drift back to sleep.

Suddenly I am absolutely wide awake as a horrifying thought occurs to me --- that I am doing to this mouse exactly what the world did during the Holocaust. We slept while human beings were being killed.

I jump out of bed and enclose the cats in a separate room. I wonder how to catch the mouse. I pick up my slipper sox and envision carrying the mouse outside in it. But how to attract the mouse into the slipper. Not really believing that it could work, I kneel at the closet door and gently say to the mouse, "If you will run into my slipper, I will save you." THE MOUSE RUNS INTO MY SLIPPER. I cannot believe it was so easy but I can feel the mouse in my slipper. I carry the mouse outside the back door to freedom and go back to bed in wonderment with Peace and Joy.

The next day I wonder if anyone will believe my story so I say nothing. That night, while checking doors before going to bed, I see Peace and Joy in their mouse alert stance at the kitchen cupboard. I open the door and a (the) mouse streaks across the kitchen floor to the adjoining laundry/furnace room. It hides behind the furnace. So - I enclose the cats in a separate room and get my slipper sox. Again, not really believing it could work, I kneel by the furnace and gently say to the mouse, "If you will run into my slipper, I will save you." THE MOUSE AGAIN RUNS INTO MY SLIPPER!!!!

I am realizing the mouse may have been attracted to my house by discarded pastry in the garbage container in the kitchen cupboard. (Since becoming an animal guardian, I am surprised to find myself in the process of becoming vegan causing non-vegan pastry to be repulsive.) I decide to remove the possible attraction permanently. It is a dark and stormy night but I wonder if I had not taken the mouse far enough from the house last night. Therefore I take an umbrella and carry the mouse to the far edge of my back yard where I release it into the underbrush not to be seen since.

I am grateful not to have ignored the dilemma of this mouse and am amazed at the lesson in compassion for all beings I was able to learn.

Mouse Photo by: Frank L. Hoffman

Comment by Marise Massaro on June 20, 2008 at 3:34am

I have since a very early age had a close connection with animals of all sorts.
I have had many experience and strange-like encounters with cats, dogs, lioness, tiger, wolves, birds…
When I walk in the city and I cross a person with their dog I say hi to the animal, not with words with thoughts and they smile back at me. I know they do!
My most recent expirement was this week end. Coming back from a night walk I passed next to a McDonald’s and somehow saw this young pigeon most probably out of the nest a few hours before, had taken refuge between the window and the post. No one noticed him.
Slowly I approached it and took him in my hands. He was not aggressive and most probably felt I would not harm him and would help him.
As we both were walking back to my home he was calm almost falling asleep. 2 times he wanted us to stop. Funny or strange thing both times were at churches. We did but both realized the place was not safe as he had a little difficulty lifting his body to fly away.
I then decided he would stay at home in my dog’s cage until the next morning. Next morning came; we both went out in my back yard. I tried to get him to fly again but I could feel he was still not ready to go. I put him back in the cage and waited until the beginning of the afternoon. Again I tried to help him fly and the furthest he went was on my gate. There was progress but I felt he was not sure what he should do.
I then started doing EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) assuming myself as the pigeon. Reassuring myself that even if I, the pigeon, was not too sure what I was supposed to do I trusted Mother Nature new exactly what she was doing and that I the pigeon trusted her infinite knowledge. After a few rounds I stopped and looked at him still on the gate door. He turned his head and looked at me. I came close to him and pet him on the head and the neck and sent him the thought that it was time for him to go that it was okay now and that I thanked him. As I finished sending my thought he looked at me, flapped his wings and flew away.
Deep in my heart I know we were connected for that short time; that as much as I helped him he had helped me. My husband behind us all the time was stunned and in awe. So was I.

Comment by lauramcgaffey on June 12, 2008 at 9:47pm

Our sixteen year old miniature pinscher was dying. We had been keeping him alive with thrice daily subcutaneous IV, hand feeding and carrying him everywhere. He was blind and had been going so since he was one year old. We were taking him to the vet for meds, etc. once a week, then twice. We talked in front of him. The vet was wonderful and had tried for at least the last year to get us to realize his life might be ready to terminate. We couldn't handle that. Finally, one day the vet said, "If he begins refusing food and water, he's telling you he wants to go." That VERY NIGHT Apollo turned his head away when I tried to feed him his dinner. He had NEVER done that before. I realized he had been eating, drinking and holding on FOR US. But, he had HEARD the vet and knew how to TELL US he wanted to go. When I gave up trying to feed him he relaxed and we took turns holding him all night. The next day, lying on the vet's table on his towel, he just lay on his side, peaceful and ready to go. I couldn't handle the final shot so I left the room but my husband stayed with him and stroked him as he went on to "doggy heaven".This was Jan 2001 and I'm bawling like a baby as I write this.

Everytime I look into the eyes of an animal I see them looking back with intelligence. My current min pin stares into my eyes to try to tell me what he wants. His focus is so intense he frightened me when I first met him. But my husband said "he's the one". Now, when he stares I ask him, I go through the list, "Outside?", "Goodies?", "Dinner?", etc. until he jumps up excitedly to let me know I've hit on the right one. He also uses his front paw to pull my hand to his tummy which means either he's hungry or he needs to empty his bowels; if he does this I just resort to the "Outside?", "Foodies?" and wait for him to let me know which one.

At 19 I had a cat I could tell what to do. Some thought, erroneously, that I was a witch for that and other reasons. But this message is long enough. Sorry for taking up so much space.

Comment by hilary on June 12, 2008 at 9:38pm

I have always wanted and enjoyed being with all types of animals from when I was child. I currently have 3 dogs and 1 horse and 3 ponys. My story is about my horse, I have owned him since he was 5 months old and he is now 15 yrs old. I developed a very close bond with him from the begining as he was "my baby" and we know each other very well. I check him twice a day in a rented field usually at the same time, four times now I have had a strong feeling that I must go and see him "out of hours" and each time he has been caught up in the fence and needed me to cut him free, I sort of take this for granted now but am always relieved that I have responded to my feelings. Another incident was while we were riding over the hills, he's never been forward going and will usually go at his own pace, even when we are in a group galloping he will set his own pace, and I was watching a coloured horse galloping over the next hill having a great time, I said to tigger (thats his name) "you should be doing that" and in the next instant he took off with me and galloped for about half a mile totally without any input from me, and I though did you really understand what I said? he's never done that before. I took him to the riding for the disabled for a trail as he is so layed back and he was a paragon of virtue ( I did ask him to behave) but on the way back he galloped as if to say "I can be good for a while but don't expect me to live there" I know it is relativly easy to read horses if you are with them a lot of the time but there are special bonds which can be created if you are sensitive to them, especially when you are riding them. I have competed a lot in the past, and part of the attraction is the bond formed while undertaking dangerous activities, you do have a telepathic connection which almost goes unoticed. I have read books of old horseman talking about their experiences which illustrate the bond and communication they form with their horses.
I am in no doubt that animals live by their instincts, something we have long forgotten about as humans, while they are connected to the field of the universe we just stand back and wonder how they "do it". Its no mystery the whole planet is living in the field apart from us....................................