Communicating Styles of Animals
When you are intuitive and around pets, you learn things about yourself every day. Sometimes they share things about what they are feeling, other times about what we are doing.
Yes, there is the food situation where you are suddenly feeling hungry. This can be in their presence or as I found this year, when driving toward their home. And yes, many of them, depending on their own level of sensitivity and intuition know when we have gotten the message and even when we respond with a verbal or thought response while focusing on their face. When they receive the message, the hunger goes away for me and doesn’t return.
Each has their own way they work to communicate with us. The ways are as different as they are, and we are. No two are exactly the same. With some it's more challenging to understand what they are working to get across and with others it comes through seamlessly. The obstacle can be to get past the perceived naughtiness or misbehaving we are seeing on the surface to dig a little deeper or see the bigger picture to understand what is really happening. Sometimes we have to think about what was going on in our lives at the time everything began. As that can truly be the key. What were the people talking about aloud, in the environment or what they are seeing or feeling on an emotional level? Pets just like kids hear and see everything – and do their best to come to the right answer.
For example, a pup who was in essence the child’s pet who stays with the parents when the child goes off to college. The mom who has taken up gardening and is nurturing, loving, and giving a lot of attention to a new vegetable that is growing. The pup is trying to eat the plants, so mom takes this as the dog is hungry and put something extra out for it. Mom is spending more time with the plants. One day she comes out to her garden to see the dog has trampled the newly grown vegetable and now mom is really upset. It was not about hunger, nor even the vegetable, it was about the love, care, nurturing, and attention the mom was giving and the pup was missing from the daughter. In many ways they were mirrors for one another – with both missing the daughter and both looking for love.
Another situation had to do with a cat suddenly bringing gifts into the house and teaching the other family pets to do so as well when they hadn’t before Their perception, they had to show their people they loved them and didn’t understand the discussions that they overheard that spoke of possibly some of them leaving. When I understood why they were doing it, looked them in the eyes and let them know I would pass along their information and that their love was enough, they did not bring in anything while I was there, and their family was away when this had been a regular routine.
With a middle age pup friend, it was the perception he was becoming increasingly needy as his elder sister who was going blind, hard of hearing, and showing some signs of dementia causing accidents to occur in the house. The more she aged, the more anxious he got. He was afraid she would be yelled at or talked about which he heard and knew what was allowed in the home or not. He raced to me when I asked if he wanted Reiki crawling beneath me getting as close as he could to me. Even if the words are not spoken, animals feel the emotions, hear are thoughts or sense a shift in our demeanor. I always let him know that I would look after her while I was there. Some pets are not ready, nor wanting to hold the position of being responsible and act out in a variety of ways.
Some utilize the dream state to communicate with me, others I will hear their barking in the distance while receiving the English translation at the front, some it is an authentic knowing of what they’re saying. Some they act out what they are trying their best to communicate. And there are those that it’s a feeling, for instance me feeling exhausted suddenly can be an elder pet sharing where they are on their life journey, if I feel disgruntled in their presence, it often is something they picked up from someone in the home or if in an apartment building, it can be from another unit. Often it is helping them understand it isn’t theirs. If it really affects us, it becomes something to look deeper into as to the why.
Holidays can be highly charged days for everyone in the household – adults, children, and pets alike. Take several deeps breaths before responding asking yourself is there something more happening.
