Maya and Ginge

This post about caring for a dying pet, is prompted by my dog, who is reaching the last stages of her life. She has been getting very arthritic over the last few months, her sight dimming and the last two cold snaps have left her weak and hardly eating.

I was privileged, a few years ago, to watch the dignified exit form this physical world, of a 20 year old outdoor cat. He had spent several months staring into space and it looked to me as though he was looking into the next world (Then I’m a mystic so I would see it like that).  His owner wouldn’t let him into the house, but I used to let him into mine and as he approached the end, he spent more and more time inside, until he was sleeping on the dirt tray when he hadn’t the strength to make it outside. At this point his ‘owner’ went away and I felt sure that if she had been around, she would have had him ‘put to sleep’.  I knew in my heart of hearts that he wanted to go at his own pace and time and this he did, while she was away that weekend.  Slipping away with grace and dignity.

I have the privilege now, of knowing Pea Horsley, an Animal Communicator who has helped me before with a cat’s passing and now is helping me with my dog.  I felt sure that Maya, my dog, wanted to die quietly at home, but a friend of mine put doubt into my mind and so I asked Pea to communicate with Maya, to ask her what she wanted, so I would know for sure.

(I’m organizing an Animal Communication course with Pea, here in April and hopefully after that, I will be able to do this myself) Goodness knows humans are bad enough at listening to the wants and needs of other humans, let alone listening to a cat or dog who doesn’t speak in words. 

Pea’s communication comforted both me and my dog; Maya seemed so much more at ease knowing that I knew what she wanted. Having had my feelings confirmed by Pea, I felt more sure of my intuition and that I was doing what Maya wanted. Pea also told me some very practical things, like feeding Maya slivers of chicken by hand.  She hadn’t eaten for days, but ate the chicken with relish. 

Caring for a dying pet, is both a very sad and an incredibly wonderful thing to do, for the creature whose who has shared their life with us.  To be able to listen to a beloved pet’s needs and concerns and be there for them at their transition from this world to the next, is in my opionion a great privilege and a sacred act.

If you want to know about how to communicate with your companion animal, visit Pea’s site at: http://www.animalthoughts.com

My Beloved Cat Vlad

Have you ever communicated telepathically with the cat you love? Do you know anything about communicating with animals? Have you heard about it before?
I’d heard about Horse Whisperers and Dog Whisperers, but nothing about Animal Communicators until last year, when I contacted Pea Horsley Animal Communicator from the UK. As I wanted to see if I could write an article about her in my One Nature Newsletter and if you read that article, you can get a good feel for what Pea does in her work as an Animal Communicator.

A few months after I had first contacted Pea, I emailed her in desperation to ask for her help, as I had a cat called Vlad who was very ill and I didn’t know what to do for him for the best. Most specifically, I didn’t know whether I should have him euthanized or whether I should let him die naturally.  What I learnt from the communication with Vlad surprised me; for Pea told me that he was a fighter and that he very much wanted to live.  She also conveyed to me, that if he did die he would prefer to die at home, not at the veterinarian’s (I suppose that part of the communication wasn’t really surprising). 

Following the things that Pea communicated to me from Vlad, I set about doing what he told me could help him to fight his illness and enable him to live. This included giving him a couple of Homeopathic remedies, a Bach Flower Remedy and instigating several dietary changes. In those traumatic few days, Vlad and I fought together so hard and then lost the fight to save his life. He died a few days later.

As a result of this heart rending situation, I determined to learn how to communicate with animals myself, so that something like that could never again happen to a cat, or any other creature in my care. I reasoned that, if I had known what he had wanted from the outset, he would still be alive today.

So, I invited Pea to come over to West Cork, to teach us here how to communicate with our beloved animals. For details of the workshop, click where it says ‘West Cork Workshop’ above this post.

In my next blog I will be asking Pea a few questions, specifically about communicating with cats.  I’m curious to know if cats communicate in a different way than say, dogs or other creatures and also how cats really do perceive us humans.