The Sparrows at the Window

On asking what your senior animal is thinking — and what you're really asking.

There is one true question that arrives with almost every senior animal near the end of life: what is their perspective on things? It sounds like it's asking for information. Usually it's asking for something else — permission.

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Lesley Ames
The Picnic Table

What the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator

A shelter volunteer and pet psychic walks two dogs, gets ignored by one, and stumbles into a lesson about presence, attention, and what it means to finally stop talking and listen.

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Each One Enough

What the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator

My last walk of the day was a new arrival. In the isolation kennel — the place I would want to be if I were scared. No name, no notes.

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Some Days

What the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator

When I arrived, Bella was gone. Nobody at the shelter knows what I do beyond the leash and the poo bags. But something else happens in the middle of it. As an animal communicator, this is how I've come to know who they are.

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They're Still With You

What I witness in pet loss sessions — and what becomes possible on the other side of grief

When I open a session with someone grieving a pet, the animal is usually already there. Not restless. Not demanding. Just — present. The question I'm asked most is simply: are they okay. And what I witness, over and over, is that the answer is yes.

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How I Became a Psychic Medium

On Following a Feeling You Can't Explain

I had been walking for five days when it arrived. The path along the Alentejo coast, the Atlantic on one side, almost no one else out there — and on the last day, standing at the edge of a cliff in Portugal, something became clear. This is part of the answer to the question people ask me most.

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