Clear. Honest. Precise. To the point, with corresponding heartfelt emotion driving their point home. That’s an animal for you. You don’t have to be a professional animal communicator like me to know that. Nonhuman animals don’t put up smokescreens that lay heavily on our hearts snuffing out moments of Truth. We do. We’re polite. Each […]
Animal Intelligence
Dogs Are At Least 4-Lingual
They’re masters at understanding visual – as well as non-visual energetic – body language, emotional language, ‘medical’ language, and of course, plain English or whatever tongue we happen to speak in. The energy behind each word we speak is worth a thousand words to our canines, a valid reason to brush up on our ‘English’ […]
When not to Bark Back at Your Barking Dog
If your barking dog seems to be ‘barking at nothing’ or just talking to a neighbor’s dog in the distance, ask your dog in a nice way, to stop barking. It’s that simple. Feeling frustrated and yelling at your dog to shut up will only amp up your dog’s barking in response to your excitation. […]
Human Spirit?
A friend was telling me how great he thinks the human spirit is in reference to the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. It’s amazing how amazed people are when they see how people, after suffering horrific trauma, eventually feel reborn – empowered – with the help of millions of their own species supporting and […]
PBS’ flickering “Human Spark”
Narrator Alan Alda, makes a feeble attempt to make us feel good about defiling the world in the recent PSB video, “The Human Spark” that shows us we have two brain functions–insight and imagination–that separate us from (other)animals.Wrong. I know many non-human animals with insight and imagination capabilities equal to, if not superior to ours. […]
Natural versus normal connection
David Schwartz of WPKN in Connecticut interviewed me on the radio last night regarding my new book, LIKE an ANIMAL: When Being Human is not Enough. In the book I mention that at age four, I turned my attention from a “normal life” to relate more to animals. The radio host interpreted this as a […]
Among the Bird-Brained, Size does not Matter.
I look out my window. In the distance two birds on a wire. I assume they are mates. One presumably the female is smaller than the other who sits within an inch by her side to her right. Suddenly, a larger bird comes in for an abrupt landing about two feet from where the love […]
Ask Any Barking Dog
Like any animal, humans have an innate capacity for empathy: the ability to feel in our bodies what someone else is feeling in his/her own body, i.e., suppressed emotions. Sometimes, when I cho0se not to funnel my anger through non-violent communication, I dramatize it much to the chagrin of who(m)ever is within earshot. The good […]
A World No Longer Run by Half-Wits
Some of us connect more easily with animals and nature because we let our intelligence thrive naturally like an animal, in circular all inclusive whole-brain patterns of thought. Free beyond the limitations of exclusive linear logic used by men and women confined to the boundaries of the frontal cortex. If we are ever to become […]
The Horse Who Bucked for Love
A client called about her horse’s aloof behavior. I quickly assumed that the equine wanted to be alone and didn’t like exercise because it was her nature to be lazy and withdrawn. We invent logical reasons to say why an animal acts the way s/he does; easier and more convenient than breathing deep beneath the […]
