Pets Can Communicate Newsletter March 2013

In this issue: Using Animal Communication to Help Disabled Pets Animal Communication on the Job Pets Can Communicate March Workshop Calendar Individual Pet Consultations

Using Animal Communication to Help Disabled Pets

With advances in medicine and diet pets are living longer. Sometimes the consequence of old age (as with humans) can be loss of sight and/or hearing. It is also not uncommon to hear about animals that, in the past, had been put to sleep because they were born blind or deaf are now getting the opportunity to grow up as family pets. My 18 year old elder cat has eyes that are cloudy and has significant hearing loss. I have started to apply my Animal Communication skills in new ways to help him and my pet clients that are in the same situation. Here is what I have come up with so far. Feel free to use it on your pet and please share with me anything that has worked well for you and your pet. For Pets W/Partial or Complete Vision and/or Hearing Loss: Find out how much they can see or hear by asking them. Obviously, you dont have to do that if you know they are completely blind or deaf, but if you know they have partial sight or hearing ask them how much they can see or hear. For instance, my cat Jeffrey told me that he can hear me from a distance of a few feet but no more. So when I put wet food down for him, calling him from the kitchen if hes in the bedroom wont work anymore. Inside a home, vision-impaired animals can get along pretty well. You would swear their sight was fine because they get a sense of the layout using a combination of all their senses and memory. I met a man once who had been legally blind for less than a year and half and was learning how to go move around in the world. He shared with me that if sound echoed it meant that he was in a place with a ceiling. If an air current came towards him then he knew there was a wall coming up in front of him. If a person was coming towards him and an air current him hit on his right side, then they were coming from the left side and viceversa. Animals use these same cues too.

So how can we use Animal Communication here. First, set up your home how you like it and keep it that way most of the time. Constantly changing the layout of a room will make it difficult for a visuallyimpaired animal to figure out how to get around. When introducing a vision-impaired pet to your home do so room by room. In your minds eye picture the room and everything in it, you can do this while being inside that room, and tell your pet about it. Verbally (out loud or in your mind) and visually (in your mind) explain what everything is in the room, how big it is, what to watch out for and what will help them. So you can mentally show them where the couch is in relation to the entryway to that room. Make a movie in your head of your pet jumping up onto the couch (if they are allowed to, of course). On their own, they might bump into the couch, but if they are visually impaired enough, they may not be able to see that it is a sitting place they can use. Conversely, if there is a radiator that periodically spits out hot steam and drips scalding water, you would want to mentally show them that. Again, make a movie in your mind showing them getting burned by the radiator. With a pet that is completely blind and or deaf, I would consistently communicate with my mind as well in addition to hand signals for the deaf animals and speech for the blind animals. With dogs I would emphasize practicing giving mental commands. With a deaf dog you would hand signal the commands, Sit, Stay, Down. but you would also accompany each signal with a mental command in the form of a little movie of your dog sitting when you say sit, staying when you say stay and going down when you say down. Periodically practice each command only on the mental level. Imagine a deaf dog getting out of her yard and heading towards traffic, you are running behind her and she isnt looking at you. A mental command may just save her life.

My client Nadine says of her visually-impaired dog named Sunnie (on the right), I continue to practice

your advice about [mentally] speaking to Sunnie when he walks outside and I know it works, he does pretty well inside.

Animal Communication on the Job

How cool would it be if all pet service providers, including vets, learned how to do Animal Communication! Criss and Kristen of Above and Beyond Pet Care have taken my workshop and have also done pet-sitting for me. They are very caring and reliable people who have, in fact as their name says, gone above and beyond by learning to talk to the pets they take care of and helping to make them happier in the process. I had taken Brenda Seldins Beginner Workshop and didnt expect to learn as much as I did. The practice sessions really helped and taught me a lot. I not only took the techniques from class and applied them to my own pets but I was surprised to discover it even works with animals I just met! My partner and I offer pet sitting and the information I learned in Brendas workshop comes in handy. I do get to know the pets through speaking about them with their Mom and/or Dad when I go to an interview but then I actually get messages from the animals themselves after spending some time with them. One dog recently told me she understands she cant chew bones around her (dog) brother but really expressed she would like some alone time to chew some bones or toys. A cat I was watching likes to be alone in his room, at first I thought how could they keep a cat they are allergic to in one room but then the cat told me he likes visits but thats it. I even pet him longer than he wanted and he told me in 2 different ways. One, the universal language of cat hissed and pulled away. But, he also told me/sent a message, however you want to refer to animal communication, that this was his space, I can go now, he was finished with visiting. It was comical but I got the message loud and clear! Criss M. Callicoon, NY Criss & Kristen offer live-in domestic pet sitting services in your own home for vacations. Covering a wide area from Hudson, Bergen & Morris Counties NJ up through Orange & Sullivan NY. They will even pet sit in Wayne County, PA just give them a call or send an email to abpetcare@yahoo.com or cell phone 201-362-0113

Pets Can Communicate March Workshop Calendar (Please go to www.petscancommunicate.com for descriptions of workshops.)
Two 1-Day Workshops in March: Beginners and Advanced *Certificate of Completion will be will be awarded listing all Animal Communication skills acquired upon completion of both workshops* Date: Saturday March 9, 2013 Location: R&R Time Wellness and Education Center Compass South Professional Center 8180 Brecksville Rd, Ste. 204 Brecksville, OH 44141 Time: Beginners: 9:00 AM 12:00 PM Advanced: 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM Cost: $135.00 or $60.00 for Beginners Workshop only and $75.00 for Advanced Workshop only (must have taken Beginners Workshop already). Registration: Call 216-798-8748. Deposit required to secure a reservation. **---------** Date: Sunday March 24th, 2013 Location: 93 Erie Avenue Narrowsburg, NY 12764 Time: Beginners: 9:30 AM 12:00 PM Advanced: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Cost: $115.00 or $35.00 for Beginners Workshop only and $80.00 for Advanced Workshop only (must have taken Beginners Workshop already). Pre-register by March 18th, by sending in a $25 deposit, and receive a 10% discount on a single workshop or for both. Registration: Call 845-588-2023 or email seldin.b@gmail.com. Checks may be made out and mailed to: Brenda Seldin PO Box 81 Narrowsburg, NY 12764

Individual Pet Consultations In-home (may not be applicable for everyone), by telephone, and now, by Skype! 45 minute consultation for $50. 15 minute consultations for $20.