I've been thinking about Yago so much since he passed.
I miss him.
I really wish I could speak to him.........
I've used animal communicators before, and perhaps I should contact animal communicator Anita Curtis again.....
My appointment with Anita is within a week!
(In the meantime, here's a recap of an article I wrote for my Angel Horses web site in 2009):
We all talk to our pets. We know they know and recognize many of our words, gestures and body language. But what if we could really talk to our pets? What would we say? What would they say?
I first learned about Anita Curtis a few years ago when I read the book, The Daisy Sutra. The book was about the relationship between a dog and her owner person as the aging and sickly dog came closer to passing. Anita was listed in the index as an animal communicator. I found out she had owned an Arabian horse (like I do) and she was located in Pennsylvania - the next state over.
I had noticed a tumor on Yago's back paw, but I had to leave home. My dad had suddenly passed away, and I was needed by my family. I knew I would be gone about a month, but I was worried about Yago. The vet could not diagnose his condition. Perhaps Anita could help.
I called and made an appointment for a phone consultation. When the time came to speak with Anita, I was prepared with specific questions about that tumor. I was really focused on that tumor.
Anita "spoke" with Yago. He told her he was not aware of a tumor. He had no discomfort from that part of his body and was not concerned. I was surprised! Then Anita told me, "JoAnne, I am not a vet. I only relate what the animal is saying or showing me. Some are aware of their health conditions, some are not." (Well, OK, I thought). Then she continued. "Yago is beginning to feel his age. It is sometimes hard for him to get up after laying down; not always, just sometimes. (She was right.) Overall he feels very good. The food is good." (OK, the food should be - I made his food fresh each week (see this post), but I thought she could be saying this about any dog.)
"Is there another dog with Yago?" Anita asked. Yes, I replied, "his daughter Yuka". "He says she's a pest - she bothers him when he wants to sleep", Anita said. I smiled. Yuka is a pest, and she did bother Yago when he was sleeping.
"What about me - JoAnne " I asked, wondering what Yago would say about me. "Are you his person?" Anita asked. "Yes, yes I am", I said. Anita explained...."He doesn't know you as JoAnne. He knows you as "Mom". You are "Mom" to him. He says you sing him a song on the stairs every day." (She was right!)"
Each morning after feeding the horses, Yago would scramble up the stairs in the horse barn and wait for me to sing him the "Mom loves Yago" song! How could she have known that? No one could know this except me and Yago! "He misses you", Anita said. "He knows you are away."
After my conversation with Anita and Yago ended, I thought about what I had learned. I did not learn anything about that tumor -what it was, what caused it, how to treat it. I did learn a few things about how my dogs sees his world, which in many ways is very different than how we think they see their world. I was focused on the tumor- he was not. Important to Yago was undisturbed sleep and the realization that it was more difficult for him to get up after sleeping. The biggest revelation to me was that Yago mentioned our "song". He knows me as "Mom" not only because of the song I sing to him (which he loves!) but also because ( and I never even thought about it until now) whenever I see him throughout the day I always say "Mom loves Yago". So of course, he knows me as "Mom".
I'm sure there are many who will be skeptical about this, and to be honest, sometimes so am I. But I do know that Anita translated things that only Yago and I knew. I leave it to you to decide if we really can "speak" with our animals through an animal communicator.
As a follow up, I'd like to report that I treated the tumor on Yago's paw by giving him a Turmeric supplement (capsule) daily in his food, and by putting a small bit of castor oil on the tumor. Within 30 days the tumor was gone. It ulcerated and then healed quite nicely and never returned.
In my next post, I'll tell you about the conversation I had with Anita and the now "deceased" Yago.
