How do I discern what’s real from a hoax? This is not a simple answer. Well, it starts with comparing animal body language to info received sometimes. Comparing things that are known facts with info from the AC. Also, no AC who valued her rep would tell me any of the goofy stuff I’ve been hearing from other skeptics on COTH, asking for special colored blankets and junky stuff. (There was another poster who told me some silliness like that.) Another poster also told me an AC gave her unsolicited advice, another red flag. Animal communication is not something that people just throw around at other people. It’s like giving unsolicited child rearing advice to people at Walmart. Just weird with questionable judgment. Some people need to feel special… I don’t know. You see it on Facebook more often than not. Sorta creepy. The animal communicators I’ve dealt with have had a professional demeanor.
The first time I heard of Bea Lydecker was when I moved to my house and I started riding with a neighbor. She told me of a group session that she’d witnessed and stories from that were very intriguing. There was one story that was sort of pathetic that drew me in. A woman had a mare that she trained and showed in various disciplines. The mare was given a lot of attention. The woman decided that she wanted to breed the mare, keep the baby and sell the mare. The mare was bred but lost the baby. When she communicated to Bea she “told” her she didn’t want to be sold, she loved her owner and didn’t want to have a baby to replace her. I know you people who don’t believe horses can love are going to be laughing your a$$es off now… but it seemed legit. Still does. I believe all animals can feel love, maybe not like human love, but their own versions. Another story I recall was there was a cat that told its owner that when their stepson came over he would torture the cat when no one else was around… now maybe torturing is not exactly it, but probably being mean to the cat, pulling his tail or doing mean boy things. This was in 1980s. I think there might have been more stories, but those are the only 2 I recall.
I would have liked to see Bea in action then, set up a group reading thing with a bunch of people and their animals out of pure curiosity, but could not find her.
It wasn’t until years later when the internet opened up and I got on a veterinary chat group that a vet put me in contact with Bea. At that time we had adopted a dog who was constantly attacking another one of our dogs. We tried everything to get this female to stop attacking the male. Nothing worked. We were getting bitten by accident… so I thought maybe the dog could be reasoned with by an animal communicator, so I sought Bea out. Turns out it doesn’t work that way. No one can really “tell” a dog to cut behavior out. We ended up getting that dog a shock collar and shocking her every time she ran at the male. But it did give me my first experience with Bea.
That was sort of funny, because when we asked Britta through Bea why she hated Haus, she said “He’s alright”. They can be like a little kid. In another reading with a friend’s dog, he was confronted about always biting people and he said"I don’t bite anyone" When they know something is bad and you don’t want them to do it, they are like little kids. “I didn’t do it” Their minds are very simplistic.
Well, Bea talked to all our dogs and it was all stuff we knew, so that’s one thing I can add, if you know your animals well you generally don’t learn much from an animal communicator. Maybe it’ ends up merely cute trivia.
We adopt our dogs as adults and I’m always curious about their past homes. I’ll say this, you can tell experiences dogs have had by their behavior, and the back stories that Bea gave me on all the dogs we have gotten through the years has mirrored their behaviors. The beaten ones, the neglected ones… I don’t tell her anything beforehand. I let her tell me.
I think some people have proclivity to communicate with animals, some have more than others. I have a little with my own. Probably most prople do, they just don’t realize they are doing it. One time, when I was trying to keep the big dogs off the sofa, (I have since given up) I would find Zeus curled up on it and I would scold him off. One time when I scolded him off I said “why are you sleeping there when you know I don’t want you there” and I got the communication from him “the other dog did.” And it was true, years earlier my ex-husband’s small terrier was allowed on the furniture and his smell was probably still there. So i know communication with animals is do-able, I"m just not gifted enough to do it all the time. I wish I could.
These things happen and each one solidifies my belief that they can be nothing but real communications… and I have only skimmed the surface of these stories through the years here.
However, since animal communicators are as common as snow in July for most other people, they are the most misrepresented and misunderstood group of people there are in my POV, at least on COTH it appears that way. Therefore, that’s why people who have one bad experience don’t seek another AC. It isn’t as necessary as a horse trainer or dog trainer… maybe some people think of it as a vanity silly thing to do. Or they think we who want to know more, want to hold conversations and long walks on the beach with our animals… when just for me, i like to know them better… they are horses and dogs, not kids, they are not going to win awards for smarts or become little people to me. I call them my kids jokingly. This last reading with Lydia I shared with the link here was for fun though and I adore group readings … they are the most fun. I wasn’t at that one but I saw and enjoyed many of the other taped readings the other people at the ranch had with Lydia.
sitting tapping with the phone is exhausting… I hope you appreciate my attempt at clarification here, because starting out with an insult wasn’t the greatest way for you to start asking questions either.
