Communicating with lost animals and successfully reuniting them with their human companions is possibly the most difficult part of an animal communicator's job. The animal's human companions are in a very stressful state and are desperate for you to provide answers. The animal is sometimes confused and uninterested in disclosing enough information for them to be found. If you locate and communicate with the animal and they are alive, then the human companion wants you to convince the animal to come back home or arrange a specific time and location for them to meet the animal. If only it were that easy. If, on the other hand, you have communicated with the animal and they have transitioned, the human companion wants you to help them locate the body so they can gain closure. Either way, it can be a challenging situation.

It is imperative that contact with a missing animal be made as soon as possible. The longer they are away, the harder it is to get them to return home. This is due in part to their survival instincts. As days pass, they start to become more concerned about food and shelter if they are out on their own. In addition, if they have become injured, they can go into what is called a protective state to allow the body to heal. It is not uncommon, especially with cats, for them to leave their physical bodies when they are in this state.

In addition to communicating with the lost animal, I use a technique called “map dowsing” to help locate the lost animal. Map dowsing involves using a pendulum in combination with a map to detect the energy of the animal and, thus, its approximate location. Map dowsing can be very time consuming and many animal communicators are not trained to do map dowsing. However, it is my belief that a combination of communicating with the animal and map dowsing is very effective and has proven, in my experience, to be the best chance of locating the missing animal.

I am a firm believer that you have to trust the information you are receiving from the animal. You need to relay this information to their human companion and let them come to their own conclusion. After all, they know the animal much better than you. If the human companion asks for your opinion, then be truthful and honest with your assessment of the situation. Even if the information is not what they had hoped for.

It is the responsibility of the animal communicator to share all of the information they receive without analyzing or interpreting it. For this reason, the animal communicator will do their very best to listen, see and feel what the animal is communicating and know that some of the information, like the color of a house or car, may be slightly off. Therefore, don’t dwell on it if the information provided by the animal is not 100% correct. How often have we misinterpreted something about a human-to-human conversation? And this is a verbal conversation, not a telepathic one.

Author's Bio: 

Tim Link, President and CEO of Link’s Wagging Tales, Inc., is an animal communicator and Reiki energy healer for animals. He is also past President of the Humane Society of Forsyth County (Georgia) and a member of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s AJCpets expert panel. For more information about Tim, visit wagging-tales.com.