Communicating with Animals –

Last weekend I treated myself to a weekend away – no lying in the sunshine by the side of a pool for me – rather joining half a dozen more animal lovers at a retreat in the woods of the Limousin region of France, for a weekend of learning to talk with animals! Joanne Hull, known as the Pet Psychic, was the tutor and she made the subject thoroughly fascinating and enjoyable. We students even got to practice too.

This is what Joanne’s website says about ‘talking with animals’.

‘Psychic simply means using your intuition on a telepathic level, animal communication is the SIMPLE ability to listen, which to you and me means to become sensitive, to use our intuition, our gut feeling, giving our minds, hearts and souls the permission to fully experience what an animal sees, feels and senses.

The natural sixth sense is within you and connecting easily with your animals through a telepathic and intuitive connection is the most magical experience you will probably ever encounter. It’s like developing the skills of listening to your own inner voice, the inner chatter of your mind; we hear it often, but do we always REALLY listen?.’

The course covered a multitude of aspects of communicating with animals; for those of us who have pets or who work with animals – whether refuges, dog grooming, horse livery yards, kennels, vet nurses – we all naturally chatter to our animals anyway, but wonder if they actually hear what we are saying and, if they can, what can they tell us.

Ok, so some of you will be sceptical! But keep an open mind. There were a couple of surprises for me this weekend, which reinforced my belief that it isn’t mumbo-jumbo.

Besides meditation to bring us humans down to a relaxed level to be able to talk to animals, we worked on actually connecting with an animal, either by photo or a live animal, sending and receiving messages, body scanning for illness, tracking missing animals, death and dying, remote contact.

I’d taken a couple of photos of two of my dogs – Carmela, a rescued galga who came with several severe hangups as a result of maltreatment in Spain, and Pepsi, my Swedish Valhund who was stolen 18 months ago. I hadn’t met anyone on the course before and none of them knew my dogs – none of them read Galgo News, but I hope they will now!

When it came to trying readings from photos, none of us knew the subject animals – Pepsi and Carmela happened to be given to two ladies sitting beside Joanne, and Joanne and one of the ladies are already practising Mediums. The chat back from Carmela included her ‘saying’ that she is not sure she is a permanent member of the family. As you will know, I foster dogs, and Carmela gets depressed after a foster dog leaves for its forever home. So that was a pretty accurate reading from two ladies who had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of Carmela’s background or behaviour.

The ‘word in from Pepsi’ was interesting too in that ‘she said’ she hates having to walk on a lead, misses going in the meadows, but likes where she is living. When I said afterwards that she had been stolen, both Joanne and Chris (the other medium) said she had been stolen by a lady and was living not far away. That is interesting insofar as Pepsi hated men, so we knew she would have to have been caught with a dog trap or net, if it was a man who had taken her. She also used to love rummaging in the meadows, looking for moles and mice, and was very rarely walked on a lead because a) she didn’t need it when walking in our meadows and b) she hated it!

It is comforting to learn that she is happy where she is, but it doesn’t comfort us because we haven’t got her back and miss her very much.

On Sunday afternoon we ‘talked’ to Dillon, a stunning King Charles Spaniel. After asking him the same question at the same time, we each wrote down what we ‘heard him say to us in answer’. After all the questions had been asked, he curled up to sleep, obviously extremely tired after our chat! Comparing our answers, we all had similar responses to most of the questions!

Ok, I expect sceptics will have an explanation for that. But for those with open minds, it was very interesting!

Joanne is a delightful and entertaining tutor, she makes the work enjoyable and easy to understand, and I can certainly recomment having a look at her website. You can purchase her books through the website, as well as find information on any Seminars being held near you, and her Home Study Course.

Thanks, Joanne, for a fascinating weekend and be sure I shall be practising my newly-acquired skills to develope them to try and help the poor innocent galgos and podencos who suffer so much maltreatment and misunderstanding at the hands of the Spanish hunters.