Te Animal Intuitive Show, Ep. 101 

Live Animal Communication / Animals & Love, Research

Do our pets love each other, do our pets love us?

Find out here on the Animal Intuitive® Show!

There are all different ways that we can find out things about our beloved pets.

On the Animal Intuitive® Show! I talk about learning things from animals from an animal communication perspective. What do they think, what do they feel, as well as I like to throw in a little bit of the research when it applies. 

When my dog Cheyenne was a puppy she used to play all the time with her friend Ronan and they would run around the backyard. They had a great time together. He’s a border collie. A while back, I think it was in August, I said Ronan to her and this was her reaction.

“Who’s Ronan” 

She tilts her head and her ears perk up. You can just see that she is making an association.

And then this is Ronan’s mom asking Ronan, “who’s Cheyenne?”

When I say, “who’s ‘Bill’ (she doesn’t know a ‘Bill’), she doesn’t react. 

They haven’t seen each other in years and they still have these reactions to each other’s names. 

So when I do animal communication with my animals, I’m tuning in to find out what they think and what I feel event. I’ve been a professional animal communicator for about 17 years. I’ve been talking with animals all of my life. 

But I wanted to specifically find out about the feeling and the emotion of love. I wanted everyone to be privy to what I find out from my animals, as well as animal clients. 

So when I ask Cheyenne about the difference between how she feels about my husband versus Ronan, when she talks about my husband, she feels the respect that they talk about in the dog world. That dogs need to have rules boundaries and imitations. I didn’t plan to quote Cesar Milan but I think I did. 

That’s very much what she shows me when I ask her about love and my husband. She gives me the ‘emotion’ of excitement when he comes home when I ask her if she ever feels excited; more of that “heart feeling” of love, that we often associated with love. 

When I talk to her about Ronan, there’s an immediate feeling of warmth and interest. And there’s a little bit of a low-key excitement. Like, a curiosity mixed with excitement. There’s also a visual memory of him that is attached to this emotion.

I get this for my clients and my pets all the time. There is love. There is a feeling and emotion of love that they have towards us and there isn’t any question about that. When I asked her about Cheyenne more about how specifically she feels about Ronan, as well as other clients I have,  it’s not romantic love, in the human way of thinking about it.

They don’t necessarily think of each other, either, as husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend. There are bonds and there are relationships. But it is different than with people which I’m sure doesn’t surprise anybody. There are also sometimes feelings of possessiveness. That can come into play. 

Scientific Research – Do Animals Feel Love?

There are some interesting things that have gone on with research in trying to understand if animals can love?

Dr. Clive Wynne spoke recently with The Washington Post about, “Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You.”

Clive Wynne, a psychologist and founder of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, was interviewed about his book called, “Dog is love. Why and How Your Dog Loves You.” 

Dr. Wynne first references a Japanese study that does show an increase in the hormone Oxytocin in the urine of dogs. There was a spike that in Oxytocin during a laboratory study that indicates dogs have been in, “loving contact,” after looking into their human’s eyes.

Wynne also establishes a definition, for scientific purposes, of what love is.

“We talk about exceptional gregariousness we talk about hyper-sociability so we’re looking at that you know the gregarious Energy towards another or they’re at they’re hyper social they’re really social animals compared to other animals when we’re doing science with the hunter it can be operationalized I things I can be measured so they can measure if a dog chooses to go for a bowl of food versus its owner he separated from both food and it’s on her for many hours or they can measure the hormonal levels go up in those dogs in their owners. When I look into each other’s eyes move to measure it out and get a break it down and measure pieces.”[efn_note] https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/25/what-makes-dogs-so-special-successful-love/ [/efn_note]

Wynne and his team also conducted an additional study, to see if a dog would “care” if their human was in distress. 

“So we did a follow-up experiment (to a previous Japanese study) where before we put the person in the box, we put food in the box and we train the dogs to open the box to get the food out. Going forward, when we put the owner in the box and ask the owner to cry out in distress, we know that the dogs know how to open the box. Under those conditions, pretty much every dog opened the box. That, to me, is a compelling demonstration that dogs really do care if they can understand. If they can figure out what to do, they will.”

Neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team trained dogs to lie still inside an MRI scanner to see what they are capable of thinking and feeling. Berns was interviewed by National Geographic about his research into dog behavior in his book, “What It’s Like To Be A Dog – And Other Adventures of a Neuroscientist.”

“Scientists find it hard to accept the idea that animals have feelings. Most people who live with dogs understand this intuitively. The confusion comes because we have language and can label those feelings. We have words for things like love, fear, sadness, or guilt. Everything we started doing to elicit positive emotions showed that dogs had corresponding parts of their brains to humans.”[efn_note]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dog-brain-feelings-mri-gregory-berns[/efn_note]

Berns say the following when asked if we can tell if animals do experience, “real love.”:

It’s related to getting food versus just praise. With humans you can come up with similar analogies as to what motivates us to like another person. With dogs there’s always this overriding question: Are they just trying to scam us by acting cute?

In the experiment, we showed them an object that signaled they would get food, then another one signaling that their owner would pop into view and say, “Good girl!” There were a handful of dogs that preferred praise over food. There were also a couple of dogs at the other end of the spectrum. For them it really was all about the food! [Laughs] But the vast majority of dogs had equal responses to both food and praise.

I also did look into the research on cat’s and their ability to have feelings of “love.” In one study, the researchers had people bring their cats to an unfamiliar place. One of the ways that they knew that the cats are more comfortable with their humans, was the number of meows they did when their people returned to the room after leaving. [efn_note]https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cats-really-do-need-their-humans-even-if-they-don-n1057431[/efn_note]

The research concluded that cats seek their humans for comfort and security.

A study with horses did not seem to indicate the same as dogs and cats. The results showed that horses feel a reduction in stress with people but they do not respond differently to humans they know. 

“This might not be that surprising, when you think about the fact that most dogs live in our houses and are together with their owners from when they’re puppies,” said Roth. “But with horses, it is not as common that we keep the same individual throughout its life. In addition, the horse is a prey animal, and we might need to modify the research methodology in order to capture its complete behavioural response in this kind of studies.[efn_note]https://horsesandpeople.com.au/do-horses-form-bonds-with-humans/[/efn_note]

As an animal communicator, I would be more inclined to agree with encouragement for more investigation into this and to avoid generalizing:

“That doesn’t mean horses never develop special bonds with their owners, however, cautioned study co-author Elke Hartmann, PhD, of the Department of Animal Environment and Health at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, in Uppsala. When and how they express attachment behavior may depend entirely on previous interactions and the situation – where the horse lives, how much time the owner spends with the horse, what they do together, how long the owner has had the horse, etc. “It’s really important not to generalize research results,” said Hartmann.”

I want to talk about these things because animal communication is understanding animals’ thoughts and feelings on a spiritual and energetic level.

There are studies that I read that were indicated that dogs only experience emotions on a 2 to 2 1/2-year-old level of a human, so they don’t get into more complex emotions like him regret, guilt, pride, and shame. [efn_note]https://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/which-emotions-do-dogs-actually-experience/32883#:~:text=This%20means%20that%20a%20dog,guilt%2C%20pride%2C%20and%20shame.[/efn_note]

I would have to agree that there are a few emotions that we find that dogs and other animals don’t go into. For instance, they don’t linger in shame, I would say that’s true. But do cats, dogs, horses or animals for that matter, feel regret, guilt, pride, and shame at all? 

They will experience feeling bad about something they did. But they are saying in the studies that it’s fear, that it’s all just a different level of fear. IE:, “you’re upset with me and I feel almost fearful.” But on a lower level. 

Pride, well, let’s look first at a definition of pride:

“A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.”[efn_note]https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/[/efn_note]

I’ve communicated with, for instance, a horse who felt that he was a beautiful, magnificent looking being. Some of that came from what he was picking up from the humans and what they thought and felt about him. He did feel very positive about how he performs as a show horse. 

But, unlike, perhaps some more “prideful” individuals, the animals I have communicate with do not intentionally use their positive feelings about themselves to hurt others.

I feel that an animal may not experience heightened levels of emotion in some areas. However, they can think about concepts upon a higher spiritual level, they can think about concepts that maybe we think they can’t just because they don’t go into these specific emotions that we consider to be higher, more complex emotions. 

So that is my concern. That people look at this research and they limit animals and I think that’s a shame. That’s the benefit of animal communication because you can find out from an animal, not based on what you’re seeing or measures of oxytocin in their brain, and MRIs. You can find out that animals do understand things that are going on maybe a 2 1/2-year-old human wouldn’t. That’s where like I think there’s an interesting difference between humans and animals. The animals have this ability to understand higher-level concepts. 

Just because animals may not have these feelings that we associate with only humans being old enough to understand, like guilt or shame, does not mean that animals can’t understand these concepts. 

I know as an animal communicator what I know. I have people give me feedback about what their animals do after we discuss things changes that have been made, there are testimonies about that on my website. People and their pets on my (The Animal Intuitive Show) demonstrate some of that for you. These (testimonies and conversations on the show) confirm understanding by animals. 

This information is like an informational matrix. I will tell people to start the session, some of this I’m getting completely from your pet and some of it is intuition. It’s something I’m picking up that is information that we don’t know how to explain. Some of these things may be better explained on a Quantum physics level. They are trying with quantum physics to clarify how these things work.

It’s a matter of we can access things not limited by time and space. I don’t completely understand it but just because we don’t understand something does not mean it doesn’t exist. We can see evidence of it being true without having a complete understanding of why it is happening. 

So that’s why they do studies in various modalities in different areas over the years, but we’re lucky if the money is there, the funding, to do these studies. We can only go on what we see (after animal communication consultations)then, the changes in animals and their behaviors. 

I’ll have animals during a session, often, and their people will say to me, “my animal just jumped on my lap when we started the session, or “you just talked about something that my animal does.” For example, like raising the paw or nudging their person with their head, and as we’re talking about those behaviors they are doing it. So we’re seeing live-action.

The animal communications from this Livestream 

Skip – scroll down for the remainder of the informational transcript “Animal Communication Skeptical Doubt and Confusion; An Animal Communicator’s Perspective”

Caller:

Has a dog called Meisha (Springer Spaniel / German Shepherd mix). There is something going on medically.  

Anne:

I do preface all of the communication I do on here by saying that I’m not a vet. I don’t diagnose or treat illness in animals or people, but… and when I do a show live or I talk to animals, even a recording that I’m putting out there, I just want to make sure everyone understands that when I do medical intuition, I’m not going to go as deep. I don’t have the time to… that is a deeper communication session where you need a little bit more time usually, it’s peeling an onion and I explained to the person right as we were doing this and this isn’t in this clip of me saying this, but that when she said there’s a medical issue, I said, I’m going to be keeping it on the surface, kind of general. So, here we go.

I’m picking up some kind of issue in the abdomen.

Okay, so that felt bloated, or something, kind of that’s the feeling I got. So that could be the stone. I mean.

Anne:

So after we started and I said I got this bloated feeling, she said that the dog has a bladder stone.

Bloated I don’t get sharp pain personally, that’s not what I’m picking up as an intuitive. I’m not getting a sharp pain, it felt more bloated. That’s so if that answers your question. I do get some hip discomfort too. So I don’t know if they’re addressing that. So I would kind of just something to take into consideration if they haven’t brought that up. Maybe she’s a little bit older and it’s not unheard of to have some stiffness or whatever happening, but just have them maybe check that. There’s a little bit of nausea, I forgot to say that. I was getting a little bit here, but I don’t feel it considerable, for what it’s worth.

Caller:

I would like you to ask Pippa of what she thinks of Meisha as she’s been with us a year now and if there’s anything she would like to do more or less with her?

Anne:

This is Pippa.

Caller 1: * Anne can’t hear the questions (tech issues). So just listening via animal communication and then I can read responses in chat later and will make a note of when that is.

So there’s a sense of we’re trying to figure out Meisha. There is times when Meisha is anxious or bothered by something. Something is upsetting her. And I feel Pippa being almost anxious about it herself, she because doesn’t understand what is going on with Meisha.

Is there anything she’d like to do more or less? Oh and Pippa is blind. Okay. Anything more or less?

Anne:

It feels like she would actually appreciate some kind of scent work or training. It feels like she needs that kind of stimulation. Being blind it seems like she’s extremely into the scents and that she really wants some more. So it feels like doing some kind of games or training around the house with scents, like hiding things.

Anne (reading chat from Pippa’s mom):

In chat she wrote, “okay Pippa love scents.”

So it was talking about that I was picking up that Pippa, wanted to do scent work. I Didn’t know. I don’t know these people at all ahead of time. 

“she loves scents and used to play those games with her, but I haven’t, as much Meisha does have anxiety and I think Pippa calms her.”

Anne:

You said about hot air balloon with Meesha. The hot air balloon is… There’s a sound that I haven’t been around those in a while, but it’s the sound I’m getting actually more than anything visual. There’s something about the sound that makes the visual more scary, but I really feel like it’s actually the sound. It’s like a hissing I’m getting from it. I think because you see that when they power the thing up in the hot air balloon, that sound.

Anne (reading Meisha’s mom’s response in chat):

Okay so I’m just pausing this if you’re just listening it. She wrote, the sound makes sense. She also doesn’t like being around electrical towers. She looks up, but I bet she senses the sound even though I can’t hear it. Thank you so very much. I wanted to be able to let you guys see the live animal communication from the other night, even though this is a redo and so it’s nice because we get confirmation.

2nd caller, Tami (Ollie – Coonhound Mix):

Ollie is a therapy dog. On a recent visit, it was pointed out that Ollie kept an eye on me, even when he is getting attention and sitting in their laps. Is he looking for my approval?

Anne:

The word I get is reassurance and the feeling is reassuring, wanting to be reassured. Feels more like, “Come on, get in on this. What do you think?” Like she doesn’t want to feel separate from you in what she’s doing with the person in the therapy session, or in the visit I should say.

I guess what I would say is if for any reason you wanted to use this information for developing her, it feels like she may be a little lacking in confidence. So the training might be around confidence building. There’s just a little bit of a lack of confidence. It feels like she’s needing that reassurance, if that’s important to you.

Ollie’s mom:

Okay.

END of Live Animal Communication 

Animal Communication Skeptical Doubt and Confusion; A Professional Animal Communicator’s Perspective

Why People Don’t Believe Animal Communication Has Taken Place

We get confirmation and that’s lovely to be able to hear that all this makes sense to people. So even though we can’t necessarily, or haven’t yet had a good study done to show that animal communication is a real thing. People tell us things like, “oh, you just said that the animal wants scent work. She did scent work.”

I don’t usually go back and point these things out, because I’m in the middle of it and I am trying to talk to people in the chat and I’m moving on to the next thing and getting tired at the same time and there’s a lot going on and being able to do this prerecorded is kind of nice because I can stop for a second and maybe take a moment to point these things out.  I think that sometimes we need to do that for the field of animal communication.

It can sometimes be a little crazy-making when you talk to someone and then you talk to them later and they’ll say, “oh my dog is acting so different and that behavior has changed. And you can kind of tell they’re not acknowledging. They’re not making the connection between the communication that you had and I think that’s because it’s unbelievable to people that sometimes you can just talk to an animal and give them that time, that space to express themselves and to share with you, sometimes that alone will change behavior.  Just for them to say why they’re doing something and be heard, can change a behavior and it’s hard for people to make that connection.

Also sometimes you can even show people this is what is going to be what you need to do in order for this to change and they do it and for some reason they don’t make that connection.  That it was the animal communication that led you to this information. So I think sometimes that’s just people becoming familiar with this field and it’s hard to when you’ve had, maybe, this block for a long time in seeing that there is something else that maybe we don’t see right in front of us. When it happens, you want to think it is something else or you just don’t draw the conclusion. You’re not able to make the connection. 

Unless someone has to point it out to you specifically and even then I think sometimes people will deny. It’s like, “oh wow, it couldn’t have been that. There’s no way,.” But yet, there’s nothing else that changed

We have live communication here and a nice community. Animal communication is a great way for people to connect with each other and it’s just a lovely community to be a part of. I’m really grateful for the people that are here every week. So thank you so much and enjoy your fur babies this Valentine’s day, or if you’re not with fur babies this Valentine’s day, just take care of yourself and God bless.

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