Thursday, October 2, 2025

The Various Ways Animals Communicate

In honor of Jane Goodall (who passed away yesterday) and the profound impact she has had on me my whole life - I dedicate this blog to her. As a little girl, she was someone who inspired me to keep following my heart when it came to animals and my belief that they really do have feelings. Her life's work validated everything I sensed about animals and have continued to learn about them. She inspired me to keep trusting my path and my intuition, to keep having the courage to educate people about animals - about both their intelligence and their emotional capacity and to speak up for them whenever I could. Her loss hit me hard yet I also know it is a call to keep advocating for animals, sharing what deeply wise sentient beings they are and to continue encouraging pet parents to develop and strengthen their relationships with their own animals. I have found that many pet parents just need some encouragement trusting their inner-knowing / intuition when it comes to their own animals. That has long felt like part of my role here . . . to help animal guardians build their animals communication skills. 

People often ask me exactly how animal communication works. They want to know if I actually hear answers to the questions I asked animals or if I got the information another way. I really had to think to answer the question at first, because it wasn't a simple answer and because I have been able to communicate with animals since I was a little girl, it's not something I even thought about anymore. 

I get information in so many different ways . . . by actually feeling what the animal is feeling, by pictures they share with me that I see in my mind (that then often need to be interpreted), by watching their reaction to the things that are said in their presence and sometimes just by "knowing" the answer without having to even think about it - as if information was just put into my head. (You could call this telepathic communication).

Chances are other animal communicators get information in other ways as well. There isn't just one way to communicate with animals as we each have their own styles - and animals have their own way of sharing information with us.

I believe we all have the ability to communicate with animals, it's often just a matter of developing the skill, so maybe this information will help you in your own quest to communicate with your animals. In the event that any of you are as curious to learn more, I thought I'd share a few examples of how I pick up information. 

When I pick up what the animal is feeling, I literally feel their feelings. It is often in response to a question or what someone has said, like the time one of my clients asked me how their dog was feeling about an upcoming trip and I immediately felt anxiety running through my body. Or the time I was working with a dog and one of his guardians made a comment about how dumb he was, and I immediately felt sadness and some frustration. When I said, "I don't believe he is dumb at all, in fact I believe he is quite smart" the dog immediately ran over to me and licked me. 

Sometimes the information comes from pictures I get in my mind. The other day, I was giving a reiki treatment to a dog who had never had one before, although the humans and other animals in the house have had reiki treatments before. I was commenting to the guardian that I was surprised at how calm he was, as often animals are a bit guarded the first time they get a reiki treatment and as soon as I said it, I got an image of one of the other dogs in the house. I laughed and said, "Oh, Gus told him what to expect, that's why he isn't nervous." 

Another way I get information is just by watching the animal I am working with. This used to be much more prevalent when I was working with animals in person rather than the distance work I do now but I still notice it quite a bit in my interactions with animals that visit my yard (birds, squirrels, cats, etc) or when I am at a friend's house who has animals. I have learned over the years that it is important to pay attention to what is being said in the presence of animals because their behavior will often tell you how they feel about what has been said. 

One time, I was working with a dog who had severe separation anxiety. The dog was relaxing on the floor with me and her guardians, enjoying the energy healing, when the guardians brought up a recent incident where the dog had chewed up the inside of their car during a bad bout of separation anxiety. The dog immediately jumped up and hid on the other side of the room. There wasn't any other interpretation besides "the dog feels really bad about doing that to your car." Her guardians assured her that they weren't upset with her, they were just worried about her and wanted to help her feel less anxious. Once they said that, she walked back over to where we were sitting on the floor and laid down in front of me, ready to resume her energy treatment. 

It's a little harder to describe the last way I pick up information . . . when something is just in my head. One day I heard the buzz of a hummingbird and looked up from what I was reading. Right there in front of me was a beautiful hummingbird, idling steadily at eye level for a minute. The next thing I knew, I was saying, "I'm sorry, I'll take care of it now." It took me a second or two to figure out what I was responding to because my response was so automatic, but I quickly realized the hummingbird told me that the water in the feeder needed to be changed. As I had promised, I immediately got up, washed out the hummingbird feeder and refilled it.  With telepathic communication, we don't always "hear" something yet we seem to "know" something we didn't know a second earlier or we suddenly have an idea that just pops into our minds. 

As I mentioned before, I believe we all have the ability to communicate with animals. It's just a matter of paying attention to what we sense and then learning to trust that information if we are interested in exploring this. So, when you are talking to your animals, watch how they react to what you say, pay attention to how you feel and what pictures pop into your mind. You may be surprised by what you can pick up yourself. From experience, I would say, learning to trust what you pick up is actually the more difficult part of learning to communicate with animals, but in time, that trust will come. 

Give it a try and see what you able to do yourself! I think your animals will appreciate the effort, regardless of how good you are at first. 

p.s. I also believe that it will become more and more "normal" for animals to communicate with us telepathically. Not just "animal communicators" but ALL of us. Therefore, I think the more open we are to "hearing them" the more easily their messages will reach us.



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