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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:
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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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connected with the dog, she was really.
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had told her what was going on.
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packed everything up that they
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they were just going to dump her
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got her to understand that with the
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well, so the human could send their
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was temporary and that, they were going
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to leave her, but it was the way that
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they didn't explain to her
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:And we made some arrangements
picked some I don't know.
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:Some markers.
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where she was she would ex describe
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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 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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: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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: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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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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and I'm gonna see if I can, control this
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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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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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: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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acting out, doing all kinds
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asked me to speak to him.
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him Skip instead of Skipper.
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to do with the sound of the
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I say, gave him a more stature, if you can
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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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that one, but his name is Mercer Now.
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:We always joke about it.
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in the house, 'cause he just
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:Yep.
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:Dixie: How do you think animal
communication could be practically
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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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understand what animal communication means
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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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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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giving a speech at them, although
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:So a lot of times with
humans too, by the way.
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conversation or having some sort of a
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best friend, then that idea of respect
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do animal work at all, understand that
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anyone else and in particular, dealing
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:Then you'll get much different
results than just applying
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:For instance, when you go to, scoop up
kittens that you've found somewhere.
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:Do you ever consider that, that there's
a mother somewhere or There could be.
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: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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: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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for them and give them the choice as well.
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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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:They live on the street.
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:Does that mean they're wild?
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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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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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:How can you work together
with them as opposed to just
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:And then, so if you go
back to the idea of.
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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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: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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: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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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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:It's the same way.
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:It's where the humans say, I had no idea.
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helping them to see a new way
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:of looking at their relationship
with their animal friends and.
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rewarding because I, I believe
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:that when all of us on this planet
communicate with each other the
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: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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not just speaking.
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:Dixie: Before we end the call, where
can people find more information about
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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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:That's where all of our esoteric abilities
come from our heart, not our brain.
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:Dixie: Thank you so much
for joining me today, Faun.
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:Like I said, this is one thing
that I'm passionate about as
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:I'm all into the more
spiritual side of things.
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for me in rescue.
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:Hopefully this conversation can
help some other animals as well.
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:Faun: Thank you, Dixie.
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to your group, and I'm also delighted
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:That's wonderful.
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: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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: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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:Faun: This is my prejudice as well.
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:I think cats are more
complicated, dogs are simpler.
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:That, that could be why.
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:Dixie: That's it for today's episode.
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:I wanna thank everybody for
listening and supporting us.
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:If you wanna take that an extra
step, consider becoming a member.
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:We just added this to our
website, animalposse.com,
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:scroll down, look for the support tab.
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:Our membership program is going to
help us directly support animals
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