Someone asked me-- the post now seems to be gone-- and I did not have a chance to reply until now-- if I had ever tried to “read” messages for people not in my family or dogs not my own.
My answer is, of course not. I never tried to “read” anything at all, sometimes inexplicably I “knew” something, but that “knowing” ( whatever you want to call it) was not something I sought out, not something I necessarily wanted to experience, and was never something I could manipulate or deliberately or consciously access. And perhaps that was the worst of it all-- it was something that happened to me, not me in charge of or controlling it. I would not have the faintest idea how, even if you wanted to, or thought that you could, try to deliberately “read” a person or an animal. Are there some people with the ability to do so? I think so. Are there frauds that claim to do this but cannot? Of course.
I claim no such ability to “read” or communicate with an animal or person. I do not want that ability. Even if I had it, I would not want to do it. The experiences I have had of “knowing” have been profoundly unsettling. I would have preferred never having them, and have done my level best to avoid, however that might be done, any more occurrences.
But animals do understand health and illness-- perhaps not in those terms-- but they do. I recall when my older Australian shepherd had been treated for a rare cancer in his eyelid. I was told it was not likely to come back. But one day, my younger Aussie pup-- another male-- these two were not good pals-- spent a very long time sniffing the older guy’s eye, right near the area that had been affected before. The Aussie pup usually avoided the older guy, and so this was unusual behavior. The pup was sniffing, sniffing, sniffing, and looked strained and anxious. The older guy let him sniff and sniff and sniff, and looked anxious as well. I got the older guy to the vet that afternoon.
I knew what I would be told-- the cancer was back. It was back, but at a microscopic level. Nothing apparent to the naked eye. But the little pup had smelled something not right. Fortunately with the very, very early detection from the little pup, we were able to start treatment right away and give the older guy some good quality time in the last part of his life. Had it been discovered only with visible symptoms, the prognosis would have been much different because things would have advanced considerably. The little pup did the older guy a really good turn.
Did the pup know about cancer? Not as such, no, I doubt it. But did he pick up on the scent of something not right? Yes, he most certainly did.
Animals pick up cues, verbal, non verbal, scent, etc that humans do not. We humans do not fully get how they DO communicate, and it is only within the last century or so that a widespread view of animals as sort of robotic beasts without emotion has been debunked. Could animals communicate with each other via an exchange of mental image? I do not know why not. Science can neither prove nor disprove this-- but science cannot prove or disprove many things.
