Creating a conversation with an animal is a sticking point for many animal communicators. Getting from the level of the single response of an ‘ask and answer’ to a conversational flow can be frustrating. How do you build a conversation with an animal? Especially when some conversations are remote. Here are a few tips to help you create…
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Thunder Dog is about the relationship between a man and his guide dog. But what makes this book different from many others is that this man and his guide dog Roselle, escaped from the 78th floor of Tower 2 of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Mr. Hingson shares their personal story of…
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Animal University’s Terri Goon shared this link for an interesting article written by Catherine Bell, The Roll of the Practitioner. Are we practitioners taking on too much? Overstepping? Or right on the mark? Something to consider. Thank you, Terri, for sharing. Read more
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And what a happy new year it’s going to be too. Do you know how I know that? Because look at what I get to blog about today. Tickling, and giggling and laughing. And animals doing “one more thing” that was once thought to be only a human trait. An original study in 2009 led…
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We know animals feel empathy towards others. We see it, we hear it, we feel it. Now science is catching up. In this article in Science Daily we see an experiment that had one rat held in a small cage and another rat released into the area where he could release the held rat and/or…
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