Dialogue with My Deceased Dog

I'll get straight to the point. I do believe there are people who can "communicate" with animals. 

I contacted well-respected animal communicator Anita Curtis. I've used her services several times before and I can honestly say she is very accurate. This is done over the phone. She has no photo or description of the dog except name, color and size. No other details about ears, nose, tail, length of hair, etc. are given.

But I'm still skeptical, as most of us are.

It had been only two weeks since Yago passed away. Here's what Anita related to me when she "contacted" my dog. Her "interpretation" of what Yago was telling her (and not verbally, but more than likely in pictures or energies)are bold faced.  They are in the order in which I received them.

 I did not ask questions. I was interested in what Yago had to say.  

My comments (not necessarily to Anita, but to myself) are in italics.
  
Skeptics, are you ready? Read on. 

"Did Yago have any problems with his teeth?"
 (Yes, he did. One in the back was cracked. It was difficult for him to chomp on bones or anything really chewy. He did his best, though.)

"Did Yago have any liver or kidney problems?" 
(I never had an official diagnosis, but it is what I personally suspected. He had been dribbling urine for over a year, and only recently could not even lift his leg to urinate.)

"He was not in a great deal of pain, but he was very uncomfortable. I see something "digestive" - a tightness, farther back. Perhaps cancer."
(She was right. Yago had been uncomfortable for several months.He had lost weight and was very thin despite eating all of his food each day. I could tell by looking at him. Two nights before he passed, he just couldn't get comfortable enough to even sleep. He yelped frequently. He did have an appetite, but he couldn't keep anything down. On the morning of the day he passed, he was vomiting blood. He did still have an appetite, so I reasoned that it was something "farther back".)
 
"He says a Spirit Dog helped him to cross over. It took him 2 days. He was not afraid but was sad. This Spirit Dog was big - a red/orange color and had big ears that stood straight up." 
(OK, look at Yago' pictures on this blog. Same color as the Spirit Dog and same big ears. I got kind of a weird feeling with this statement.  While still in Arkansas, my farrier told me he knew Yago's father. "He was a big red orange dog," he told me. Somehow I remembered when Anita made this statement.)

"Nothing hurts him now. He says he is still with you. He is with you in the room where the cups are hanging".
(I fed him  each day in a small room in our show barn where we had coffee mugs hanging across the sink. This is also the same room where we gave him his treats each day after watering the horses.)

"He loved being a male dog. He wants to come back as a male dog again. He doesn't want to live in a house - he didn't like being "house broken". He liked his freedom."
(Yago did not like being in our house. His home was our big show horse barn. He loved his "lookout" at the top of the stairs leading to our house. He had 15 acres to roam at will. He could go outside at any time. Inside, he could run, sniff, chase cats and get lots of attention from our boarders. With his heavy fur coat, the house was just too hot for him.)

"Was there another dog with him? He is not feeling "family ties". This dog bothered him when he tried to sleep. He's calling her a "pest".
(Yago lived with his daughter Yuka. She did pester him a lot - she was younger and had more energy. They were always together - playing, hunting, and competing for attention.)

"He wants to come back to you. Before it gets really cold."
(I'm not sure I'm ready for a new dog yet.)
 "How would I know the dog I pick is him?" I asked.

"He says you will know by the way he looks at you."
(Yago always did have this funny way of staring and making a soft humming noise when he really wanted something. He was really good at staring to get what he wanted.)

"When you are ready, contact me and I will tell you if this new dog is your Yago."

I thanked Anita for her time and the fifteen-minute session was ended. 

I leave it to you as readers to make up your own minds about this subject matter. 

Those of you finding any validity in this transcript of animal communication may choose to try it yourself. Contact Anita Curtis by clicking here.

Animal Communication and Animal Communicators

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.