The Heart of Animal Communication

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Welcome to Animal Posse, the podcast dedicated to the

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people and rescues making a

difference in the lives of animals.

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Welcome back to the show everybody.

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I have been getting a lot of requests

to have a show on animal communication.

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So today I'm gonna be welcoming

Faun Fenderson, and that

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is exactly what she does.

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I know Faun from taking a class with

her about seven or eight years ago on

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animal communication, I learned a lot.

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So I thought she would be a

great guest to have on the show.

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Hi Faun.

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How are you?

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Faun: Hi Dixie.

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I'm great.

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I had a beautiful

session this morning and.

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Just floating along.

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Dixie: Great.

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I am excited to speak with you

about animal communication.

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I know it's a subject that a lot of people

have heard of, but I don't think a lot

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of people understand exactly what it is.

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Faun: I could talk for years about it.

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Dixie: Yes.

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Great.

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Great.

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, Can you tell us about your background?

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Faun: Sure.

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I have a very eclectic background.

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I'll just give you certain highlights.

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I've done all kinds of different

things from being a pastry chef to a

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wardrobe stylist for film and video.

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I was a chef's assistant

on a cooking show.

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I practiced law.

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I've worked in restaurants, lot,

lots of different things, and.

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At some point , I turned to esoteric

things and I have training in

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animal communication in flower

essences, in hands-on energy work

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in vibrational sound therapy.

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Currently learning about color

therapy which is really cool.

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That's the highlights,

like I said, a eclectic.

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Dixie: Yeah, that's awesome.

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I'm into the esoteric things

as well, like the sound therapy

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and all that kind of stuff.

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I do the reiki,, but of course I

have a passion for animals and animal

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rescue, , animal communication, people

hear it and they just don't really

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understand what's involved in it.

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Before we get into explaining all of

that, how is it that you found your way

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to animal communication specifically?

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Have you always had a love for animals?

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Faun: Yes I have.

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They haven't.

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Been in my life forever and ever.

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Though when I was growing up, I

have a lot of sisters and we usually

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had a cat when we were growing

up and we had a dog at one point.

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And the turning point for animal

communication for me was a cat.

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Friend of mine named Freddy a one-eyed

yellow tabby cat who as my husband likes

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to term it was a urinary expressionist.

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What he did was he basically.

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Peed on everything.

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And when I say everything,

I do mean everything.

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If his little booty could

reach it, he peed on it and

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he did his best to reach it.

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We tried everything with him,

kitty Prozac and changing the diet,

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antibiotics, all kinds of allopathic

medicine things and whatever.

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And finally I had a friend who said, oh,

I know this woman who's a pet psychic.

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You maybe had a try her.

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And I thought okay.

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So , what did I have to lose?

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So I called her, made an appointment, and,

it was amazing what Freddy had to say,

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and we went through a lot of sessions with

this woman named Netta, who was actually

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turned out to be my teacher later on.

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And at one point after a few

sessions with Netta, I said I would

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really like to know how to do this.

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And so I asked her about it and she said.

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I teach classes.

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I don't have any right now, but

I'll let you know when I do.

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And so she did.

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And we had an awesome class with

six other women and it was amazing.

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So it was Freddy really who

turned my head in that direction.

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Dixie: So now you use

the term pet psychic.

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Would you consider yourself a pet psychic?

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Faun: No ma'am.

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As a matter of fact, I only said that

because that's what the person said to me.

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As a matter of fact, I really

cannot stand that term.

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I think it does not aptly explain

what we do in animal communication.

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Yeah.

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Dixie: What exactly is animal

communication and how do you define

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it and how does it work for you?

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Yeah.

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Faun: Sure.

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You have two words there,

animal and communication.

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And those are basically, explains it.

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You have an animal or it

could be, can communicate with

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anyone, plant, rock, whatever.

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Tree.

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But we're talking about animals right now.

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So you have an animal and

then you have communication.

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So that means the same thing as if you

were having a communication with humans.

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You are having a conversation basically.

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You might ask, how do you have

a communication with an animal

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that doesn't speak human?

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And, that's where the definition comes in.

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So animal communication is communicating

in a way that is non-physical mostly.

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That is telepathic we'll put it that way.

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And how this happens is

think of it like this.

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Everything is energy.

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It's easier to see it when you look

at things that you can see that have

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energy that are moving, like the

wind and, your body has energy and

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movement and that sort of thing.

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But when you think about the the

energy from animals and their thoughts,

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our thoughts, they're all energy

and they're out there moving around.

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So basically my energy, my thoughts, my

psyche, if you will, is going to reach

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out and tap on the the energy of an animal

and say, shall we have a conversation?

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And it's a little, not quite so formal,

but it can be and you basically.

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Have a conversation.

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When I'm doing a communication for a

client what I do is we have a phone

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call or a Zoom call and it's basically

the human, the animal, and me and I

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am acting as a translator, more or

less between the animal and the human.

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Where the human has questions

or things that they want to

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discuss with their animal friend.

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And I ask them, and I ask them out loud so

that the human knows that I'm asking them.

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But what I'm really doing is

I'm sending the energy vibration

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through my words and other.

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Energy that I'm sending to the animal

which can be lots of different things.

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How they receive it is for them, whether

it's thoughts, images sound vibration,

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the animal receives it and the animal

sends me back a response and then my

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brain basically translates that into, for

lack of a better word, a language for me

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to spit out for the human to understand.

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Sometimes it comes in

images, it comes as sounds.

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Some, a lot of times it comes in feelings,

especially if I'm asking a question about

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a body part and what's going on there.

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And like I said, then I

translate it to the human.

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Dixie: I think this is something

that a lot of people do naturally

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with their pets at home and they just

don't realize that they're doing it.

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People speak to their

animals all the time.

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If you have animals that live in

your house, you're speaking with

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your animals, you might be like.

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If your animal comes up to you, oh,

you wanna treat, oh, you wanna play?

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Oh, oh no, we're not gonna go

outside right now for our walk.

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It's just like a natural conversation

that you have with your animals.

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And I don't think people all the

time realize that they're technically

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communicating with their animals.

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Their animals are telling them,

they're verbalizing a response.

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I think sometimes without even

realizing what they're doing.

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Faun: Yes, animals are

much smarter than humans.

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They understand human and sometimes.

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So as a good example is I have

communicated with animals who live

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in different countries and the human

speaks their regular language, French or

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whatever, but they also speak English and

we conduct the communication in English

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because that would be easier for me.

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But, and the animal most likely

speaks French with the human.

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Or whatever language.

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They understand whatever it is

because it's from the vibration.

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And just like you were describing,

the animal very definitely

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understands what the human is saying.

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Not necessarily the words per

se, but the vibration of it.

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And because it's.

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Much broader than the words convey.

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And they do understand that.

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And they, in their very clever way

dumb down their answers so that the

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human understands what's going on by

barking, meowing doing some physical

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action so that the human understands

that they that they do understand.

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And that is a form of.

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Communication, although it's a

one way communication because the

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human isn't really getting all

the information they could from

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the conversation with the animal.

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They're just getting the highlights that

the animal is able to, convey to them in

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a way that they, that humans understand.

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Yes.

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People do communicate on a

regular basis with their animals.

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And again, animals do understand

when you tell them, I'll be home

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at two o'clock in the afternoon.

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They understand.

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And why you think, how

are they telling time?

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It's the vibration of it.

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And they understand your intent.

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They understand the larger scope of it.

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It's really incredible when animals.

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Really do understand.

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So the biggest thing in communication with

animals is really being able to hear them.

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We convey information to them,

they understand it, but we don't

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really listen to what they give

back to us other than whatever

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physical response they're giving us.

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So it can be much deeper than what we're

getting, is what I'm trying to say,

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Dixie: yes I understand that.

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And now for people, who may be skeptical

too, when you say telepathy, and I

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understand that, I understand what you

mean 'cause I took a class with you.

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But for anyone who might be

thinking, okay, this sounds a

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little bit of woowoo, one easy thing

is to think about bringing your.

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Cat or your dog to the vet, how do

they know they're going to the vet

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before you go get 'em to go to the

vet And they're hiding already.

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And I know most people have

probably experienced that.

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'cause I know for me that

happens all the time.

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You don't have to say anything.

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No verbalization.

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You go to get 'em to go to

the vet and they're hiding.

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'cause it's like they know

they're going to the vet.

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Faun: They definitely read your mind.

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They hear and feel your thoughts.

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Definitely.

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With skeptics I mean sometimes it's just

choosing the right words to explain it.

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And for others it's having good examples

for them with their own animals.

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Some really poignant ones have

been, having the client ask a

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question that only they would know

the answer to, they and the animal.

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And when the animal gives the answer

through me, then how would I know?

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That's the best way to

explain for skeptics.

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But there are some people who are

not ready to take that leap yet.

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And that's fine.

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Everybody is where they are and

that's what makes the world go round.

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We're all different, and you asked

something a little bit ago about,

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because it's something natural.

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And the answer to that is yes.

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We all, every one of us even the skeptics

come into the world with the ability

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to communicate telepathically, whether

it's with other humans or animals, or.

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Or whoever.

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And until a certain

age, a very tender age.

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Some people have a designated

age, but it happens at different

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ages for various people.

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Some say it's seven it goes away.

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But I don't subscribe to that.

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But I find that what happens is something

happens usually, either it's something

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traumatic or, the child just gets badgered

down from peers and adults who say.

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You're a big girl now.

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Stop imagining things, after the child

has been saying, oh, I talked to my pet

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squirrel and she told me blah, blah, blah.

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And after you've said that so many

times, then the human keeps saying

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no, you're just imagining that.

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Then they either go covert, which some do,

or, just turn it off because they're, they

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don't wanna be embarrassed by the adults.

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For me, what happened was at a very

early age, I was three years old.

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I witnessed my grandfather

and my uncle kill a chicken.

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And it wasn't even so much the

physical site, which was really

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traumatic in itself, but the.

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The energy the voice of the chicken in my

head was scary is the word that's coming

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up, I guess when you're three years old.

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Scary is how it would seem,

but it was just overwhelming.

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Totally overwhelming.

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So that I just maybe not consciously,

but just in my brain said I

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can't deal with this anymore.

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I'm just not gonna listen on

that channel and turned it off.

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And then it took, remembering

many years later when Freddy

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inspired me to take that step.

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So I'm sure that there are many stories

that many people have about, having

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imaginary friends or speaking with

animals when they were growing up,

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and at some point it just went away

because of, their own personal story.

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Usually it's adults shaming them,

but yes, everyone can do it.

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It's just a matter of remembering.

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And practice.

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Practice is the main thing.

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Just like anything else, you, at some

point, you remember, you get a glimpse

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of it, a glimmer, but if you don't

practice it, then it's the same thing.

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It's like speaking French.

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If you learn how to speak French, but

you don't speak French very frequently,

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then when someone comes up to you and

speaks French, you say, oh, that sounds

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familiar, but what exactly did they say?

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That kind of like that.

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Dixie: After you took your first

class and you learned how to actually

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communicate, and I guess when I say

communicate, you learned how to,

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translate what the animal was saying.

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What was that first like aha

moment when you were able to do it?

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Who was the first animal you communicated

to or what was the first time you realized

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that this is something that I can do

and I'm gonna venture into it further.

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Faun: So that really happened with

Freddy before I even took Nettis class.

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Nettis class was amazing

because it was like a.

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Seminar in a way where the six

of us all worked together and

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communicated with each other's animals.

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That's a whole other topic.

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But, so with Freddy, and I told Netta

that I wanted to be able to do that.

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She gave me a tip which was amazing.

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And I think I share this

for anybody to try as well.

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Water for me is very conductive and

I do some of my best for lack of a

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better word, thinking and meditating

and that sort of thing in the bathtub.

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I'll have a nice long soak in

the tub and with the intention

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of doing whatever I'm gonna do.

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And so what I did was note, a

suggestion was I had a notepad

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and a pen with me and I.

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I just started asking Freddy

questions and then what you do is

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you write down what comes to you.

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You don't think about it,

you just write it down.

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Then you ask the next question

and keep going and keep going.

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And while it's going on in your

mind you're saying, oh, this is bs.

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I'm making this up,

and so on and so forth.

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But when you get to the end when you've

asked all the questions and written down

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all of the responses, and you go back or,

wait till you get outta the bathtub and

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have a little bit of, time in between.

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And by the way, you don't

have to do it in the bathtub.

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It works perfectly well without a bathtub.

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Just a quiet moment or two.

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And when you go back and you look

at those questions and answers, you

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will be totally flabbergasted and you

know that you did not make that up.

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And that is definitely.

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Probably my first aha moment.

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It was like, okay, I got it.

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And so then after that, you really

just start getting out of your own way.

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You just practice more.

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And I think that's why I took Nettas

class because the way that she

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described that particular class was

going to be, it was gonna be a lot of.

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Practice with other people's animals.

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And we did it online through chat

group and so on and so forth.

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And we were doing stuff, communicating

with animals every single day and

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writing reports to each other about

how it went . it's really, it's getting

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out of that place where you think

I'm making it up or I can't do this.

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Yeah.

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A lot of it is I can't do this,

I can't do this, I can't do this.

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And you just have to, soldier on,

go through it and keep doing it and

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keep practicing and keep finding the

ways that you receive information

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and everyone receives information

differently, that, you know how

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I said I was translating things?

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A lot of people have an idea that they're

gonna get the information in such and

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such a way, and I don't know, everybody

has their own idea of how it's gonna be.

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And it's not necessarily that way because

we each receive our own information.

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Our own way.

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And by the way, it actually

changes over time and develops.

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I'm, lately have really been amazed

at how I'm receiving information.

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I used to receive information

more as images and sounds, and

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now it's more, a whole lot more

in the realm of feeling which is.

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More expansive.

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And in the beginning also it was

more a way of just a knowing.

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Like you just know that's what they said.

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You don't have any

image, no sound, nothing.

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It's just a knowing and I guess

that's a good place to say.

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There the different ways that people

receive information would have to do

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with all of the Claires clairvoyance.

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Okay.

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That's seeing clear, seeing, clear

audience, hearing things clear, sentance

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feeling things clear cognizance.

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That's the clear knowing.

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I don't know if anyone would

get information by tasting, but.

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Why not?

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There's so many ways that you can

receive information and you just have

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to be open to getting it and noticing.

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And what that takes is.

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Slowing down and focusing and just

allowing things to come the way

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they are without any judgment or

preconceived idea of what should be.

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And that's why I say getting out

of our own way, because that's

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where the biggest problem is.

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People just aren't.

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Built or, we've forgotten how to do it.

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So it takes a little while to

get over that stumbling block.

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Not for everybody, but we all

have our own little quirks there.

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Dixie: Can you elaborate more

too with Freddy, were you able to

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solve his urinary expressionism?

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Faun: Yeah.

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We got a toned down a bit but, there

was a certain event that came up.

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I know you might be too young to remember

it, but in: 2001

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tsunami in the far east, I wanna say

Burma or Thailand or somewhere that

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devastated a huge amount of land.

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Property and animals and Freddie

was I didn't realize it, but on

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the day that happened, Freddie

went running around the house.

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I have a two story house peeing

everywhere, running up the

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stairs, peeing, running all the

way around upstairs, everywhere.

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Peeing, running, peeing everywhere.

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Pee, pee.

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And it turned out that he was feeling

that tsunami and the animals in

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particular, and he was overwhelmed

and really upset that he couldn't do

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anything and he just had to let it out.

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And that's what he did.

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And so after that we had

a conversation with Netta.

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What we did was I linked Freddy with

one of Net's cats who was also an orange

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tabby whose name was Ra Sakara, sorry.

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And had Freddy and Sakara work together

on I don't know what the right word

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would be, toning down, or somehow.

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Dealing with that anxiety

that and that helped more than

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anything, let me tell you.

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But it took a long time

to get to that point.

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And and as a result of that, Freddy became

a part of a cat group that, many animal

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communicators know about this cat group.

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It's called the OCC, the

Orange Cat Consortium.

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And it's all orange cats who some in

the physical and some in spirit who

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all work together to help other cats.

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And so Freddie became a part of

that and it gave him a job, a

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purpose, and that helped a lot.

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He never, to the day that he

passed he always peed on stuff,

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but not as much a whole lot less

at the end, a whole lot less.

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But yeah.

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Freddy was very special and

just spoke to him the other day.

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And yeah, he's working with some of

my cats in spirit, which is cool.

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Dixie: Do you have

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any

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other interesting stories

that you would like to share?

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Faun: Oh, there are hundreds.

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This is one for skeptics in a way,

but it's an odd thing for skeptics.

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So in one of the things that I

did with Netta was she created

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also a practice group where we

could practice with other animals.

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And she found people who were, and whose

animals were willing to work with us.

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And so each of us, whoever was in this

group would, had certain questions

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to ask these animals, and then we

would get together on a phone call

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and talk about what answers we got.

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And there was one cat by the name

of Max, he lived in New York City.

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And we were asked certain

questions and every single person

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got a different answer from Max.

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Totally different.

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Bizarre, which is unheard of really.

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And then while we're having this phone

call and everybody's talking about

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their answers, and it was, I guess I was

the last person to give their answers.

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I heard Max laughing in the background

and I went, wait a minute here.

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What's going on?

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So on the phone call I asked

him, did you make that up?

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And he's went, yep.

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So that was pretty funny.

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Dixie: Yeah, it sounds like a cat.

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Faun: Yeah.

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And then I had this one is also amusing.

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I was asked to communicate

with the dog who the human

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thought he was doing something.

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Wanted to know why the dog

was standing under this plant.

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Thought it was the weirdest thing and

couldn't understand what it was about.

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And so it turned out that the dog

liked to stand under the plant because.

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It felt like it was on vacation.

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When it stood under the

plant, it was somewhere else.

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It was green and nice and it

just liked to hang out there.

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So there are all kinds of

reasons why things happen.

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This is one kind of for rescuers.

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I was contacted to help someone

find a dog that had run away.

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And it was one of those situations

where the people were moving, they

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were actually moving cross country

and they had to sell their house

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and all of that kind of stuff, and.

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They were gonna drive because they

had some belongings that they needed

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to physically take that they didn't

wanna send with a shipper or what.

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I don't know what their reason

was, but they were driving there

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and on the day that they were

getting ready to leave, they were

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going to take the dog to another.

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Human's house someone who had stayed

with the dog before and the dog

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knew, and I think the dog had even

been at this person's house before.

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And they were going to have the

dog stay with this person for a

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couple of weeks until they could

come back and get the dog and drive.

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I think it was back to the west coast

where they were moving and the dog

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they took the dog to the person's

house and the dog ran away from the

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person's house and they were all

just totally, heartbroken and upset.

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And they didn't know what to do

because they were scheduled to be

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going and they couldn't find the dog.

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And they were worried because

it was out in the woods.

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And and it was gonna be

cold and dark and whatever.

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And to make the story short when I

connected with the dog, she was really.

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Heartbroken herself because no one

had told her what was going on.

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She could tell because they had

packed everything up that they

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were leaving and she thought that

they were just going to dump her

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with this person, and that was it.

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And it was like gone pecan.

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She was out of their life.

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And it just broke her heart.

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, She didn't wanna live really.

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So she was going out to hide.

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And whatever.

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So eventually what we did was we

got her to understand that with the

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call, with the human on the line as

well, so the human could send their

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vibration, through their voice.

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And the dog could hear that as well.

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That they were not leaving her, that it

was temporary and that, they were going

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to be back and that they didn't want

to leave her, but it was the way that

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they had to do it for the time being.

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And they were sorry that

they didn't explain to her

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what was going on beforehand.

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And please, would she come back.

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And we made some arrangements

picked some I don't know.

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How do you explain it?

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Some markers.

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Basically the, where we could tell

where she was she would ex describe

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some things that where she was, and

so we figured out where she was and.

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The humans ask that she go towards

such and such whatever property

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or, and that the woman who was

there was gonna come pick her up.

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And they did.

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And so she was, and that

all worked out well.

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But that was really came about

because nobody talked to her ahead

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of time and she was really sad.

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And upset and just didn't wanna

be there anymore because she felt

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abandoned and, but it all worked out.

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She moved to California with

them and everybody's happy now.

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Dixie: Yeah.

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That, that's good.

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I would like to share a story that

I have, and this happened shortly

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after I took a class with you.

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I was a volunteer at an adoption center,

and there was this cute little orange

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tabby in there, and he was about,

I'm gonna say seven, eight months.

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At the time he was pulled from the local

animal shelter and real cute little guy,

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except he had a problem with biting.

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Like you never knew when

he was gonna bite you.

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He would be fine.

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You'd pet him fine.

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And then all of a sudden he would

bite you and he would bite you hard.

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So I told the group that I was

volunteering with, look, I'm gonna take

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him home and I'm gonna work with him

and I'm gonna see if I can, control this

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biting and get him to stop this biting.

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He came home with me.

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His name, when he came from

the shelter was Donovan.

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That's just the name that they randomly

picked and randomly assigned to him.

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And it was a couple weeks

he was home with me.

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And like I said before this,

it was maybe a couple months

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prior I had taken your class.

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I didn't actively try to communicate

with him, but it was that thing

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where you just get that knowing and I

understand what you mean by that knowing.

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I know some people might not

understand that, and it came to

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me that the problem was his name.

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He did not like the name Donovan

at all, so I changed his name.

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And after we changed that name,

he stopped with the biting.

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I know it sounds crazy and people are

gonna probably think this is just like

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really far off, but I changed his name

from Donovan and he stopped the biting.

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Faun: Yep.

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I had a client with that exact same

situation, but it was a dog and,

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the human called the dog skipper.

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And the dog started really

acting out, doing all kinds

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: 00:30:48

of stuff inappropriate things.

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And that's why , the human

asked me to speak to him.

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And that was exactly it.

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The dog said, my name is Skip.

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It is not skipper.

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And when the human started calling

him Skip instead of Skipper.

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He was the sweetest dog.

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And a lot of that really had

to do with the sound of the

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word skipper was childish.

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And Skip was more respectful and how can

I say, gave him a more stature, if you can

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imagine that, especially for a small dog.

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And yeah, same thing.

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The dog did not like that name.

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So yes, it's, it happens often.

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I have a question for you?

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Okay.

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Did you ask the cat what

name he wanted to be called?

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Dixie: I did.

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Faun: Okay, good.

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Dixie: His name is Mercer.

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: 00:31:47

Okay.

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: 00:31:47

I don't know where he came up with

that one, but his name is Mercer Now.

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And he likes it.

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So that's what we go with.

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: 00:31:56

We always joke about it.

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We don't ever say the word Donovan

in the house, 'cause he just

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does not like that name at all,

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Faun: love it.

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: 00:32:02

Yes.

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Yep.

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: 00:32:05

Dixie: How do you think animal

communication could be practically

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: 00:32:09

applied to animal rescue or

overall animal welfare efforts?

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Faun: So there are a lot of

different ways to look at that.

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The first aspect of that is when you

understand what animal communication means

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and I tried, I hope to convey that when

we first were talking about it's like.

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Having a communication with anyone

basically, it's important to have

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respect for the other that you

are having the conversation with.

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And when you realize that's what

you're doing you're actually having

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a conversation with them, you're not.

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Telling them what to do or just

giving a speech at them, although

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: 00:32:54

that tends to be what we do.

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So a lot of times with

humans too, by the way.

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But if you think of communicating with.

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Animals as if you were having a

conversation or having some sort of a

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connection or communication with your

best friend, then that idea of respect

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really should come to the forefront.

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And that really, I think when people who

do animal work at all, understand that

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respect is very important in dealing with

anyone else and in particular, dealing

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with any other beings, any other animals.

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Then you'll get much different

results than just applying

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your own desires upon them.

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: 00:33:42

For instance, when you go to, scoop up

kittens that you've found somewhere.

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: 00:33:49

Do you ever consider that, that there's

a mother somewhere or There could be.

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: 00:33:54

And do you check communication wise

to see if there is, and is that mother

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ready for her kittens to be snatched?

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: 00:34:05

Communication also has to do with

okay, everyone knows about the dog that

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was running around forever for scrim

for a year or something like that.

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I actually spoke to him and on

behalf of the woman who was, the

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initial contact for him and he said

that he liked living on the street.

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You have to take it a bit further and find

out what that's about and explain what

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you have to offer, why it might be better

for them and give them the choice as well.

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: 00:34:40

Again, it goes back to respect and, so

people often then use the term, okay.

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They're feral and that's why

they're acting the way they are.

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: 00:34:49

They live on the street.

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Yes.

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: 00:34:51

Does that mean they're wild?

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Not necessarily.

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It just means that's where they live,

is on the street, and you need to find

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out what is their story, what's that

about and how does what you want to do.

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Based on your idea of what's help work

for them and how can you work together.

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And that's the big thing too.

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That's where the respect comes in.

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How can you work together

with them as opposed to just

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: 00:35:23

imposing your will on them?

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And then, so if you go

back to the idea of.

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Thinking of them and treating

them as your best friend.

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Would you do that to your best friend?

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Just impose your will on them?

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: 00:35:41

Oh, maybe we shouldn't ask a

question, but that's my view about it.

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Dixie: What is the most rewarding

aspect of your work with animals

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and their human companions?

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Faun: It's twofold.

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For the animal, the most rewarding

thing is for the most part, they are

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usually so happy to have someone listen

to them because they want to be heard.

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They definitely want to be heard

and they're so grateful for that.

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And for the humans.

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It's the same way.

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But it's the flip of that.

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It's where the humans say, I had no idea.

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And it's also showing them,

helping them to see a new way

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: 00:36:30

of looking at their relationship

with their animal friends and.

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And that those two things are super

rewarding because I, I believe

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: 00:36:41

that when all of us on this planet

communicate with each other the

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way that we are able to then.

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: 00:36:50

Things will be so much more peaceful

and less illness and so on and so forth.

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And that's what it comes down to

is having those communications.

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And that means listening,

not just speaking.

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Dixie: Before we end the call, where

can people find more information about

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you and your work and your classes?

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Faun: I have a website and it's

called hearts communicate.com.

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It's hearts plural communicate.com.

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And that's basically because we do

communicate from our heart when we.

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Communicate naturally.

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That's where all of our esoteric abilities

come from our heart, not our brain.

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: 00:37:48

Dixie: Thank you so much

for joining me today, Faun.

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I really enjoyed our conversation.

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Like I said, this is one thing

that I'm passionate about as

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: 00:37:56

well, in addition to animals.

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I'm all into the more

spiritual side of things.

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And I do find it beneficial

for me in rescue.

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: 00:38:05

Hopefully this conversation can

help some other animals as well.

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Faun: Thank you, Dixie.

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: 00:38:11

I am delighted that you asked me to speak

to your group, and I'm also delighted

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to hear that you use it in your work.

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: 00:38:20

That's wonderful.

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: 00:38:21

Dixie: I did learn a lot from your class.

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And so all that stuff that I

did learn, I use that today.

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Faun: That's great.

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And I feel, and I'm sure that you

can see that as well, that the more

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that you practice and the more you

branch out, the more your abilities

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as they say, will develop and deepen.

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Dixie: Definitely.

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Now, the funny thing for me is I find

dogs are more open than cats are, but

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I do cat rescue, so go figure, right?

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Faun: This is my prejudice as well.

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: 00:38:51

I think cats are more

complicated, dogs are simpler.

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: 00:38:54

That, that could be why.

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Dixie: That's it for today's episode.

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: 00:38:58

I wanna thank everybody for

listening and supporting us.

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: 00:39:02

If you wanna take that an extra

step, consider becoming a member.

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: 00:39:06

We just added this to our

website, animalposse.com,

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: 00:39:10

scroll down, look for the support tab.

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: 00:39:12

Our membership program is going to

help us directly support animals

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in need, whether that be through

vaccinations, food or spay neuter efforts.