What the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator
Lionel was the shelter dog people passed over. An animal communicator shares one walk by the water, what he said, and why she still holds it dear.
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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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Grief doesn't wait for the loss to happen, and it doesn't come with a script either way. Here are the questions that tend to open the door to real comfort in a pet loss session — whether you're anticipating a goodbye or already living with one.
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What should you actually ask in a session about your pet's wellbeing? Here's how to ask the questions that get you real, useful answers — about food, pain, aging, and everything in between.
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What comes through in an animal communication session isn't the final word — it's a place to start looking. Here's what years with my own dog Stanley taught me about listening past what I already knew.
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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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What to Look For, and Why More Than One Perspective Is Okay
I wasn't the first person to sit with this one cat. I wouldn't be the last, either. Here's what that taught me about choosing — and trusting — an animal communicator.
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On Presence, Pet Loss, and the Conversations We Almost Miss
Your animal has a perspective on what's happening — on life, on death, on what comes next. An animal communicator shares what she learned when she finally stopped managing and started listening.
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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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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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One household. Three cats. And what happened when someone finally listened.
Cats have a reputation. Aloof. Unknowable. Not particularly interested in being understood. In my work as an animal communicator, I've never met one that matched that description.
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On staying open and what your pet has been waiting to show you.
I'll admit something I haven't written about before. The real version of this work — not the tidy version, not the version that's easy to explain at a dinner party. Specific. Surprising. Arriving on its own terms, and asking something of you.
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On Chicago, Stanley, and Becoming an Animal Communicator
Some places don't just hold your history. They shape what you become. Andersonville, a dog named Stanley, and a hidden prairie showed me what moves between living things.
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What the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator
A painted dog named Pinto was going home the next day. He just needed someone to be here with him first.
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Some places ask you to receive differently. Seattle is one of them.
I grew up knowing this landscape. What the forests, a small lake, and the animals I've worked with in Seattle have taught me about presence — and what that has to do with animal communication.
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Why remote sessions are often the most effective way to hear what your pet is trying to tell you.
Whether you're in a remote rural area or a bustling city across the ocean, animal communication isn't limited by geography. Learn why presence is about connection, not proximity, and how a remote session can provide the clarity you and your animal need—from anywhere in the world.
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The question isn't whether animal communication is real. It's whether you're willing to be present to what's already there.
On skepticism, discernment, and what becomes possible when you stay curious.
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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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What the Dogs Know — Stories from a shelter volunteer and animal communicator.
Every week when I walk into the room of kennels, I notice the names on each individual door. Does the name match the dog I see? Who decides, and I wondered if anyone asks them.
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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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