Ten ways to know if you and your pet have a psychic bond and how to strengthen it

1: Family members report that your pet starts waiting in the hall five or ten minutes before you return from work or a shopping trip, even if you are unexpectedly early or delayed; you may notice this when other family members are absent if they have a link with a particular pet.

Tip: It is very useful to be able to reassure a pet if you are late home or staying away.

• When you are five or ten minutes away from home or if you are unexpectedly delayed, picture your pet and call them in your mind, telling them you will be soon home.

• Picture yourself stroking the animal.

• Ask the pet to wait in a particular spot for you, at first maybe the hallway or fence in front of the house in the case of a cat. Convey this by picturing the animal in that spot and you patting it when you return home.

• Over time as the bond increases choose a less likely place and tell them to wait till you actually come to them and not run to the door when they hear you. Again use images to convey the message as this seems how pet process information.

• You can also do this with stabled horses.  

2: Whenever you or a family member phones home, the animal rushes over to the phone excitedly, but does not react at other times to the phone.

Tip:

• Just before phoning home (when you know another family member is there to answer), call the animal in your mind several times and as you are dialling imagine your pet rushing over to the phone.

•  As the phone rings at the other end, picture yourself stroking the animal and the soft fur.

• In time the pet will come dashing from another part of the house or garden, even if the phone cannot be heard form that spot.

3: Whenever you are planning to go for a walk with or without the animal or out for the evening even though you are still sitting down and not moving, the animal appears from another part of the house and, if a dog, may bring the lead to where you are sitting.

Tip: Being able to call the pet psychically is very useful, especially if they are outdoors and you want them to come in for the night or in the case of a horse in the far corner of the paddock out of voice range.

• Wait till the animal is in another part of the house or outdoor and then picture you feeding the animal a small treat or taking them for a walk. Animals respond best to pictures in your mind except for simple command words. Call the name softly in your mind and the call louder till in your mind.

• When the animal comes reward him or her. Gradually you will just have to picture yourself petting or feeding the animal and it will appear as though by magic.

4: Your animal growls or hisses at a stranger or new acquaintance that subsequently proves unreliable.

Tip: This instinctive radar is useful if you are uncertain of a new person in your life or tend generally to make bad choices about people. Where your children are concerned, if a pet does not like a stranger or even a new babysitter, be extra cautious about leaving the child with them.

• If a pet does show an instant dislike to someone they meet for the first time if they are normally sociable, reassure the animal as it is only being protective while making it clear you will not tolerate aggression.

• If the pet is being openly hostile temporarily remove it from the room but not too far away.

• If the dislike continues, do not leave the animal and person alone together as the person may be an animal hater and give your pet a sly kick or your pet may suddenly attack.

• This is an occasion to ask close friends for their opinion even if the person seems charming and open and to avoid any unnecessary risks involving the stranger. Later you may understand why you were right to be wary

• This distrust is very different from the possessiveness which an animal may demonstrate if an intruder such as a lover, new baby or pet arrives and which will diminish if sensitively handled.

5: Your animal warns you away from a potential hazard in the dark or in an unknown place by barking, howling or tugging at the leash.

Tip: This ability to protect and guide you can be very useful if you are uncertain of the way back to the car or home during a country walk or through the forest or if you have taken the animal on holiday or to a strange city.

• When you are in an unfamiliar place and are uncertain of the way, picture in your mind in detail the place where you want to go and ask the animal, ‘Show me the right way/home/to the main road/ the apartment’.

• Trust the animal to lead the way. Practice at first in places or situation where it would not matter if you did get temporarily lost as that way you relax and trust the animal’s judgment.

6:  You occasionally see coloured lights or flashes of colour round your pet especially when your pet is very active or angry. The lights may appear a minute or so before the animal starts growling or behaving hyperactively and acts as an early warning system just before an aggressive animal comes into view or you decide to turn along  a noisy traffic filled street rather than taking  a longer but quieter route. The colours may be strongest round the head and paws

Tip:  Reading the mood or emotional aura of your animal can avoid many difficult situations and you can also tell your animal’s mood in the morning so you know if your pet would sooner spend the day at home or if your horse would like a gallop or gentle grooming and to be left free. Tell.

• Note which colours seem to anticipate different moods, for example dark red  for anger, a clear bright red for activity , clear bright orange sociability, very pale orange fear, green love,  pink gentleness  and brown contentment. Take advantage of a golden brown when you need to change a flea collar or give medication, rather than choosing a time when there is a dull yellow colour round the animal which may indicate the animal is irritable and may scratch or snap. A dark blue may indicate the animal wishes to be left alone.

7: Your pet becomes upset or restless when you are planning a routine visit to the vet several hours before you get out the pet carrier or mention the visit aloud to a family member. Your pet knows in advance when you are going away on holiday and putting them in a kennel or leaving them with a pet sitter.

Tip:

• Use this knowledge to prepare the animal for the traumatic event rather than pretending nothing is going to happen. I do not believe that coming up behind an animal or suddenly producing the pet box is a good idea.

• Often what they are picking up (as well as recalling the pet box usually means an injection or the kennels) is your anxiety and unnecessary guilt. Pets are not human and sometimes we attribute to them complex emotions which they do not feel,

• If you are relaxed about the forthcoming event, so will your pet be because ultimately they trust you and do not hold resentment (unlike humans) that you left them with a kind sitter.

• Put the pet box in the centre of the floor or ask the sitter to come a day early for an hour or so to get to know the pets in an unhurried atmosphere.

• Stroke the animal and use very simple words or phase such as, ‘.Back soon, better soon’ and picturing the happy outcome of the visit to the vet or you returning from a trip in as vivid detail a possible.

• Let the pet wander off, but stay motionless on the floor or by the box so the animal gradually realizes that there is going to be no unexpected surprise and he or he may even walk into the box or be petted by the sitter.

• Leave out suitcases a day or so before you pack them and again visualise the happy outcome

8: When you pet is ill you can calm it by your voice and gentle touch. You may notice your hands getting warm and your fingers tingling and the pet will slowly relax and rest quietly.

Tip: This can be useful both for minor illnesses or anxiety and those times when the animal is travelling with you or visiting an unfamiliar house where there may be another animal and when introducing a new pet to their territory.

• Stroke or groom your pet, speaking softly and using slow rhythmic movements as you gently brush or stroke the fur. Move your hands in gentle circles, first anti clockwise and then clockwise.

• Picture wisps of grey mist or jagged dark zig zag lines of pain or tension rising from the animal’s fur as your hands move anti clockwise.

• Then as you move your hands clockwise, imagine circles of green and golden brown shimmering light flowing into your animal from your hands or the brush.

•  Afterwards the fur may appear gleaming or shimmering and even a sick pet’s s eyes will shine. When you are confident at this instinctive flow of energy do not use a brush but practice circling your hands a few centimetres away from the pet up and down the body, first in anti clockwise and then clockwise circles, Trust your hands to find the right path and you may feel or see externally the healing energy flowing from you. Afterwards wash your hands under running water and shake them dry to ensure you do not pick up any of the exhaustion or tension you have removed as grey mist.

9:  Your plans to buy or obtain a new pet go wrong and you end up at an animals rescue centre instead of the kennels or cattery for your cute puppy or kitten or hear of a person moving abroad who is looking for a home for quite the opposite kind of  animal to the one you want. You cannot get the creature out of your mind and often by a series of coincidences it ends up in your home.

Tip:

• I have a firm belief that our pets choose us and that we will be led to the right pet even if it not the one we planned buying or obtaining (or you may not even have been planning a new pet). Just trust your instincts and follow the signs.

• If in doubt where you will find a new pet, hold a pendulum over a map of the local area and ask it to indicate by vibrating or pulling down over the place where your pet is waiting. Once you have the location buy a paper local to that area or drive there and you will almost always see a rescue centre or advertisement for the right pet for you.

• Equally if you go to view a litter of puppies or kitten or two or three foals or even grown horses stand still and see to which one you feel drawn.   It may not be the one that bounds up but sits quietly looking at you through the fence or whose eyes meet yours even when you try to look away.

• OK it may not be the most physically appealing of the animals on offer, but you know it is yours and there could be no other (whenever I go looking for a beautifully marked aristocratic cat, I invariably come home with a scrawny black cat with a white spot on its chest).

10: You keep seeing the same kind of bird at crucial times in your life or when you are about to make a change but are uncertain. It is not necessarily a very exotic species but it will appear in unusual settings or at unexpected times. Perhaps a more exotic species at an animal park or conservancy walks over to where you are standing and makes eye contact through the enclosure fence and you feel a sense of kinship.

Tip:

• This is your power animal and you may like to read the companion guide to this book on power animals. We all have one or more animals or birds with whom we have a spiritual affinity and who appear at times when we need courage or reassurance that what we are planning is right.

• You know when you see the creature that it is a sign from your deep unconscious wisdom or some people believe, from the cosmos to take notice. A more exotic power animal may appear in your dreams or on television, in book or on advertisements again precisely when you are seeking guidance or reassurance you have made the right decision 

If you have not yet experienced these links with your pet, these intuitive powers do increase like any ability (or in physiological terms unexercised muscles) the more they are used and if you keep practising at least some of these phenomena will become like second nature .

You may enjoy my The Psychic Power of Animals, published by Piatkus Books. (www.piatkusbooks.co.uk)

If you speak Swedish I have recently had published a Swedish language book, called "Soul to Soul" with New Page (www.newpage.se) on animal communication.

These give you lots of advice on developing the psychic bond with pets

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