I’m a skeptic, especially since they charge so much. Are there any animal communicators that have been found to be COTH worthy? Not looking for peoples’ opinions about whether they are legit or not. Just looking for referral-worthy ones. In previous threads folks PM each other the names of good ones, so I have to restart this topic.
Feel free to PM me.
Thanks!!
Ugh…maybe people will post the good names here! I just tried one for fun…and she seemed to be one that was highly recommended on past threads. I was super disappointed. Most of what she said didn’t match the two horses’ personalities at all. In the entire time the only thing that clicked was when she said my 3 yo likes to touch everything…completely true…and probably true for many 3yo geldings! It may be a while before I give one another try…this call wasn’t even entertaining!
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I’ve used Lauren Bode before. She did a reading off of a photo (and via phone) and was able to nail the location of a serious and somewhat traumatic injury my gelding had recently sustained (not shown in the photo).
Wow, that brings back some scary memories! I’d gone out to bring in my guy for regular vaccinations and got out to the field, and he couldn’t move one of his legs. It was dragging.
In a blind panic, I carefully walked him in - manually lifting the one leg up and forwards - so we could get into the barn, thinking once we got in to a stall we could assess what had happened. The vet was less than useful, and it was an older gentleman who had experience working with injured horses at the racetrack that eventually came out and identified the problem. We suspected he’d run into a fencepost (or received a direct kick) to his chest, damaging the muscle there.
Lauren picking-up on that injury, and it’s location, helped confirm what the gentleman who worked at the racetrack suspected. As someone who doesn’t believe in “stuff like that”, I know that sounds hokey - but it’s true.
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Marcia Rosenburg. She’s local to me & works with a vet clinic.
Imo, most of what animal communicators are doing is helping the humans involved to realize what they already know on an intuitive level. I watched my trainer doing a phone consult for her very anxious WB gelding with Marcia. She was standing in the middle of the stall with Marcia on speakerphone. At one point, the horse paced to the corner of his stall, heaved a great sigh, pivoted on his forehand, paced to the other corner & stood there facing the wall for a few breaths before rejoining the trainer. I’ve never seen that horse (or really any horse) act that way before.
Fwiw, Marcia’s independent assessments of the horse were certainly accurate. And I don’t doubt that direct communication with the horse is one of the arrows in her quiver. However, I believe what I was watching was more the product of Marcia facilitating the communication between horse & trainer as an “energetic couples therapist” . Trainer is very devoted to the horse. And I feel like the horse considers trainer to be his human out of all of us in the world. But she gets frustrated, he becomes reactive back, and the walls go up between them. Marcia seemed to be effecting a shift by acting as a facilitator, defusing the trainer’s energetic/emotional defensiveness towards the horse, allowing her to open up & listen to her own intuitions about the horse.
I can frequently “talk” to my animals in the sense that
I’m recognizing my own energy & emotions in a situation have destabilized & I need to correct that immediately to elicit the reaction I need from the animal. For me, that process involves picturing in my mind what I’d like to happen or want to avoid happening. Example: once a coop blew over in a windstorm at 4am. The chickens decided it was time to start their day & ignored my efforts to herd them back in until I stood quietly & pictured an owl swooping down on them. Opened my eyes & the chickens were marching back into the coop. Sometimes, I can get an image from an animal as well. I just go through too many phases where I neglect my meditation practice & I’m too ungrounded/unsettled/preoccupied for that aspect to be consistent. I can’t imagine doing it in real time & am awed by people who are grounded enough to do so.
I find that other horses often try to show me things that their owners are too preoccupied & unsettled to see. It’s not as performative as it probably sounds – think something like coming to the fenceline & arranging themselves so that one foot is subtly sticking out towards me even though they might change positions several times. It happens often enough that when visiting the farm of acquaintances for the first time, I knew immediately that the wife must work in energetic modalities because the horses were all so quiet! They weren’t clamoring for me to notice things because they were already well listened to on a daily basis. 
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What an awful experience. I hope your boy made a full recovery.
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Caveat: I haven’t spoken with her in over 10yrs, but Lydia Hiby was helpful to me in the past.
And - at the time - not overly pricy.
15min on the phone is a long time!
@TheDBYC I agree everyone has the ability to some extent.
Like the Idiot Savant who cannot tie their own shoes, but sits down to a piano & plays like a schooled concert pianist, the Communicator has more of the ability & knowledge of how to use it.
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I cannot let this go without saying that this term is derogatory, pejorative, and way outdated. Even “autistic savant” is considered as negative. The condition is better termed Savant syndrome.
“Savant syndrome is defined as a condition in which a person who has a serious mental disability is able to have an island of genius that is in marked contrast to their other cognitive skills.”
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Apologies, I had no idea this term had become non-PC
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Thanks for those who gave suggestions. any others?
Thanks in advance
Thank you, he did eventually recover. At the time, I thought he’d either have to be put down or retired … it was hard to imagine him ever being riding sound again.
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I used Dawn Hayman a few times years ago and she was very helpful. She’s very involved with teaching workshops in animal communication and I don’t know whether she still does consultations.
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Kerri Lake
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I also used her many years ago…very good. Now I call Anita Curtis but I understand that she hasn’t taken new clients in a while. I called her immediately after putting down my horse and she made time for me an hour later.
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