https://www.animaltalk.net/index.htmlAnimal Communication AdventuresenenPenelope SmithCopyright 2017-25 Penelope Smith2026-05-14T12:30:42-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 14 May 2026 12:40:26 -0700Penelope SmithAnimal Welfare2026-05-14T12:30:42-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/whale-rescue-group-meditation.html#unique-entry-id-207https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/whale-rescue-group-meditation.html#unique-entry-id-207What happens when people come together in presence, compassion, and deep listening for an animal in distress?

Penelope Smith shares the remarkable story of students from her Animal Communication Certification Program who focused telepathically with a stranded humpback whale in the Baltic Sea. As the group entered meditation to help restore harmony around the situation, dramatic changes unfolded in the real-world rescue effort.
]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2026-04-30T14:18:05-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/desert-wake-up-call-the-night-speaks.html#unique-entry-id-206https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/desert-wake-up-call-the-night-speaks.html#unique-entry-id-206What happens when life insists that you wake up and listen?

On a quiet night in the Arizona desert, a strange and persistent sound pulled me out of sleep and into something deeper—a stream of insight that would not wait until morning.
]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2026-03-14T19:03:04-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/rooted-in-nature.html#unique-entry-id-205https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/rooted-in-nature.html#unique-entry-id-205Sometimes the natural world reminds us who we really are.

In a moment of deep sadness, I once experienced something unexpected in my garden. The plants around me began communicating their love and appreciation, surrounding me with waves of gentle reassurance. That moment opened a deeper awareness of the living presence that exists within the natural world.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2026-03-04T12:41:03-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/interwoven-currents-of-healing.html#unique-entry-id-204https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/interwoven-currents-of-healing.html#unique-entry-id-204This reflection arose while reviewing my students’ case studies and noticing how different healing modalities — fascia release, structural work, energetic balancing — influence far more than the area being treated.

Over decades of practice, I have watched healing simplify. What once required balancing different systems individually began resolving through presence, intention, communication, and subtle universal energy restoring flow across the whole field.

In this article, I explore what I saw clearly: the body — human and animal — is not a collection of separate systems, but one living organism with interwoven currents. When flow returns at one level, the whole reorganizes.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2026-02-25T18:48:13-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/interspecies-communication-sacred-kinship.html#unique-entry-id-203https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/interspecies-communication-sacred-kinship.html#unique-entry-id-203Interspecies telepathic communication is not about acquiring a psychic ability. It is about refining your being.

At its heart, this work restores right relationship between humans and other animals — a relationship rooted in reverence, sovereignty, and shared consciousness. Long before animals were reduced to pets, property, or behavioral problems, they were known as nations, teachers, and kin.

This article explores the deeper spiritual foundation of animal communication: humility instead of superiority, discernment without judgment, compassion without infantilizing, and sacred kinship instead of hierarchy.

When we stand in that field, communication becomes natural. And healing unfolds through who we are.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2026-02-07T13:32:40-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/intelligence-intellect-wisdom-other-species.html#unique-entry-id-202https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/intelligence-intellect-wisdom-other-species.html#unique-entry-id-202What if intelligence is not best measured by abstraction, language, or complexity of thought—but by presence, responsiveness, and right relationship with life? Drawing on decades of listening to animals and the natural world, this reflection explores the difference between intelligence and intellect, and how confusing the two has shaped human ideas of superiority, spirituality, and evolution. What emerges is a more honest, humbler view of intelligence as something shared—expressed differently, but no less fully—across species.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2026-01-27T16:23:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/beyond-hierarchies-unity-with-life.html#unique-entry-id-201https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/beyond-hierarchies-unity-with-life.html#unique-entry-id-201We often compare humans and animals through narrow frameworks—intelligence, emotional capacity, self-awareness, or spiritual development—using hierarchies and models created by the human mind. While such systems can be illuminating, they can also distance us from a more direct, lived experience of truth.

In this reflective essay, I explore a different orientation: growth not as ascent, but as expansion into greater inclusion and unity with life. Drawing from decades of listening to animals, nature, and inner knowing, I share why I’m less interested in spiritual ladders and more devoted to felt presence, kindness, and communion with the living world.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2026-01-10T10:19:53-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-conversations-with-dogs.html#unique-entry-id-200https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-conversations-with-dogs.html#unique-entry-id-200What happens when we listen to animals without projecting our own beliefs about what a “good life” should look like? In this moving guest story by animal communicator Genie Joseph, a telepathic exchange between two dogs from vastly different cultures gently challenges human assumptions and reveals a deeper truth about contentment and individuality.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2025-12-26T18:46:30-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/beliefs-block-animal-communication.html#unique-entry-id-199https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/beliefs-block-animal-communication.html#unique-entry-id-199Assumptions, whether scientific, cultural, or spiritual, can quietly block our ability to perceive realities and receive communications from animals that fall outside familiar paradigms.
In this article, I explore how beliefs can inhibit our ability to truly hear animals. You'll read remarkable examples of animals communicating about consciousness, choice, identity, and reincarnation. These experiences invite us to listen more deeply and to remain open to truths that may stretch our understanding of life itself.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2025-12-20T19:12:03-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-communication-dream-and-shared-souls.html#unique-entry-id-198https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-communication-dream-and-shared-souls.html#unique-entry-id-198What if reincarnation isn’t as simple as one soul, one body, one lifetime?

In this reflective essay, I share a powerful dream recounted by a student in my Animal Communication Certification Program, a dream in which animals taught her about a phenomenon they called soul sharing. Her experience opened the door to memories of my own animal companions, including my beloved cat Chico San and to a lifelong understanding of how souls may merge, separate, and support one another across lifetimes.

Through animals, dreams, and lived experience, this story explores the malleability of souls, the concept of soul families, and the profound ways animals help us remember the deeper truths of existence.]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2025-12-10T15:47:37-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-animal-communication-and-heart-alignment.html#unique-entry-id-197https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-animal-communication-and-heart-alignment.html#unique-entry-id-197This guest article by Val Heart shows how emotional steadiness and heart presence transform animal communication, allowing deeper messages, clarity, and trust.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2025-11-22T15:10:24-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/human-superiority-complex-higher-and-lower-life.html#unique-entry-id-196https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/human-superiority-complex-higher-and-lower-life.html#unique-entry-id-196For decades I have spoken, written, and sometimes climbed up onto my soapbox about the stubborn idea that humans are the crown of creation—the divine exception, the “higher” species, the only ones with true intelligence, choice, or spiritual awareness.

It is one of the most persistent illusions of our time, and one of the most damaging.

This month, I came across a powerful article in The Guardian that gave me a breath of genuine hope. Journalist Megan Mayhew Bergman described what she calls the “last frontier of empathy”: seeing ourselves not as superior to animals but as animals too—kin among kin.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2025-10-02T19:57:31-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/7296786999595eeaebc1818cd497635b-195.html#unique-entry-id-195https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/7296786999595eeaebc1818cd497635b-195.html#unique-entry-id-195When I began my professional career as an animal communicator in the 1970s, I made a conscious decision: I would not refer to animals as pets or to people as their owners.

Why?
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2025-08-23T19:00:18-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8052414bd73a9ed4c8f8d0d0ecfe4fc4-194.html#unique-entry-id-194https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8052414bd73a9ed4c8f8d0d0ecfe4fc4-194.html#unique-entry-id-194My 11-month-old dog, Pico, and I set out on the longest adventure of his young life so far—driving from Arizona to Nevada and all the way to the Bay Area, north of San Francisco. Over 2,233 miles in ten days, we visited friends, camped in new places, walked among towering redwoods, and breathed deeply of the salt marsh scents along California’s north coast beaches. We also attended an inspiring dinner and garden walk with Save the Redwoods League members at Filoli House and Gardens in Woodside, California.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2025-08-01T13:49:48-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8cd2868d59050231486925d5f355c7ed-193.html#unique-entry-id-193https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8cd2868d59050231486925d5f355c7ed-193.html#unique-entry-id-193I am usually not available for consultations, but when animal communicator, Danielle Tremblay, contacted me about a problem with her turtle, Oliver, I felt called to help solve the mystery.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2025-07-14T20:13:47-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/618fd92ecba9de45430f69f4f591c625-192.html#unique-entry-id-192https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/618fd92ecba9de45430f69f4f591c625-192.html#unique-entry-id-192On June 12, 2025, I received an email asking if I could help a wild grizzly bear who swam to Texada island on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. She said island residents didn’t want to coexist and wanted the bear killed, including the government. She wanted the bear to understand that humans were out to kill him. She wanted him to move on to the mainland and out of sight.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2025-07-02T19:13:49-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d4e18a4f5fb88fb63053dd2455267d67-191.html#unique-entry-id-191https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d4e18a4f5fb88fb63053dd2455267d67-191.html#unique-entry-id-191For five summers, a desert spiny lizard visited my front porch to chill out in the shade and enjoy the spray from the fountain I placed there. He was a handsome, mature, and robust male, and I always looked forward to seeing him. Besides his full-bodied presence, I could identify him by the three missing toes on his right front foot. I took many photos of him as he looked directly at me, unafraid, even when I went near him on the porch.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2025-06-10T15:40:15-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/28f3e705133d2057121bf0766b9bdd1f-190.html#unique-entry-id-190https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/28f3e705133d2057121bf0766b9bdd1f-190.html#unique-entry-id-190Rediscovering our innate ability to communicate telepathically with animals is a spiritual journey. This journey prompts us to examine hidden depths of our being to identify what may be hindering fruitful exploration and recovery. The experiences people related in Species Link, Issue 13, October 1993 on their animal communication path are still relevant for students today. Sharing our journeys can help us feel supported along the way.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2025-05-28T19:34:03-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/417f83b337c7ee9bcc600f54f56d791e-189.html#unique-entry-id-189https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/417f83b337c7ee9bcc600f54f56d791e-189.html#unique-entry-id-189Since I began teaching in the 1970s, the results of helping people how to open to their ability to communicate with animals have been overwhelmingly positive. As telepathic communication with animals became more widespread, I began hearing more stories of how individuals using this skill upset people and animal companions. In any field, some try to help others with clear and pure intentions, and some mix their emotional imbalances into their interactions.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2025-04-21T19:37:15-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/1d05f0187a602a5a00258e18dabf414d-188.html#unique-entry-id-188https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/1d05f0187a602a5a00258e18dabf414d-188.html#unique-entry-id-188On April 16, 2025, I taught a bonus class to the graduates of our Basic and Advanced Animal Whispering Courses with The Shift Network. Besides introducing the grads to the content of the upcoming six-month Animal Communication certification program, we practiced a new exercise that I recently developed. This exercise helps participants to accurately differentiate their thoughts and feelings from those of the animal they communicate with. Our volunteer animal helper was Ziggy, my 14-year-old glossy black cat.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2025-03-31T14:31:56-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c1d0b2a7bafa36b4cf72947c79bb4f8d-187.html#unique-entry-id-187https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c1d0b2a7bafa36b4cf72947c79bb4f8d-187.html#unique-entry-id-187People often feel dismayed or guilty when they have inadvertently participated in an animal’s death. Once people tap into their native ability to communicate with animals telepathically, they discover that animals may have very different perspectives on what occurred. People often get jolted and bumped forward in their spiritual evolution when they listen to the mind-blowing perspectives of animals.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2025-03-12T19:46:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/342923d04cb536b30a3cbf073dda5c5e-186.html#unique-entry-id-186https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/342923d04cb536b30a3cbf073dda5c5e-186.html#unique-entry-id-186Beloved elder animal communicator Anita Curtis died on March 9, 2025. She practiced professionally for over three decades.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2025-02-16T18:43:40-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e2c18cf245cd50cd1a5d7bd2eafb48de-185.html#unique-entry-id-185https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e2c18cf245cd50cd1a5d7bd2eafb48de-185.html#unique-entry-id-185A few communication treasures from animals after leaving their physical form.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2025-01-19T18:28:26-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a8f378f3c911243687ae2743b894f8c2-184.html#unique-entry-id-184https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a8f378f3c911243687ae2743b894f8c2-184.html#unique-entry-id-184The Species Link Journal archives are filled with thoughtful and amazing articles written by beginning and advanced animal communicators. Amy Richardson wrote this article for the July 1993 issue after attending an animal communication course I taught at Spring Farm Cares in Clinton, New York. It is a wonderful example of how much we can learn from our wise animal friends when we listen to them. It shows how they consciously help us because of their evolved consciousness and love.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2024-12-28T07:11:01-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/74d02c069515965abc54703034be3a88-183.html#unique-entry-id-183https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/74d02c069515965abc54703034be3a88-183.html#unique-entry-id-183Almost nothing can get me on my soapbox as the assertion that animals are lower and less-evolved than humans, or that humans are the ultimate, divine species on Earth.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2024-12-19T07:09:33-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/my-dog-pepito-returns.html#unique-entry-id-182https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/my-dog-pepito-returns.html#unique-entry-id-182My former long-haired Chihuahua, Pepito, and I went through many changes after the sudden shock of his death on August 30, 2024. I kept in touch with him as he traveled in the spiritual realm, assimilating high angelic energies and appearing to me in various ways.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2024-11-26T19:54:52-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/45ec20b333f486ecc042b1877ffb4d96-181.html#unique-entry-id-181https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/45ec20b333f486ecc042b1877ffb4d96-181.html#unique-entry-id-181Several students attending my Advanced Animal Whispering Course had great questions about handling their sensitivity—a follow-up subject to my last blog on protection.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2024-11-11T19:29:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/53395d742ec9a2266d5afd21c26b7dce-180.html#unique-entry-id-180https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/53395d742ec9a2266d5afd21c26b7dce-180.html#unique-entry-id-180I bought your animal communication audio recording course but have never practiced them because I have fears and concerns about opening myself up. I have heard and read that there is a danger of coming in contact with negative beings and a need for protection once we open ourselves up. 

Does this happen because people do not work on themselves to clear out negative aspects they may have? I have heard that we attract vibrations that are similar to us. As none of us are perfect and are here to learn and grow spiritually, how can we be safe from attacks from negative forces or beings?  How can I ensure that I am not attacked or put others in danger from beings that may come through? 
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2024-10-14T17:20:39-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/36991b7b4642a11e8f0ed435deb8ee5a-179.html#unique-entry-id-179https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/36991b7b4642a11e8f0ed435deb8ee5a-179.html#unique-entry-id-179Early October, I enjoyed a long drive to guide a wildlife communication retreat at Earthfire Institute sanctuary in Idaho, camping in scenic spots. On the way home to Arizona, I planned to take a side trip to Colorado to visit my friend Don and his orange tabby cat companion, Ollie.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2024-09-25T19:33:59-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ee2a8aa88ef18d59151975cd27ccdb73-178.html#unique-entry-id-178https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ee2a8aa88ef18d59151975cd27ccdb73-178.html#unique-entry-id-178I have a favorite tool I use to help people tune in to their inherent ability to communicate with other species telepathically. It made sense when I started teaching people how to rediscover their ability to include adopting an animal’s viewpoint to understand animals well and get what they were communicating on a deep feeling level.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2024-09-03T04:37:14-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d52083438bca0f2047762a1f43a55be4-177.html#unique-entry-id-177https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d52083438bca0f2047762a1f43a55be4-177.html#unique-entry-id-177On August 28, 2024, Pepito, my loving long-haired Chihuahua (also known as a ChiWowWow), enjoyed the last online class in the 7-week Become An Animal Whisperer series I taught with The Shift Network. He could feel the hundreds of people attending the live course and even the hundreds who would learn from the video recordings.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2024-08-22T13:32:50-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/44dddfd05608527620acc3743cd3b170-175.html#unique-entry-id-175https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/44dddfd05608527620acc3743cd3b170-175.html#unique-entry-id-175Living in the Sonoran Desert north of Phoenix, Arizona, wild animals surround me. I am blessed to interact with them daily. There are a multitude of lizards and snakes. While I respect and appreciate their meditative, ancient, wise presence, I carefully watch for rattlesnakes. I don’t want to startle them and put myself or my dog in danger as we walk our land. They usually stay far away from the house in the wilder areas where Pepito and I don’t walk together.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2024-08-02T15:49:46-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8ca41132c51650e2de160dc128559fbb-174.html#unique-entry-id-174https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8ca41132c51650e2de160dc128559fbb-174.html#unique-entry-id-174In 2016, I connected with the animals of Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary, asking who wanted to speak about healing the Earth when the director Susan Eirich requested this. A white wolf appeared. Susan sent me photos of the white wolves at the sanctuary, and Arctic Mist came forward. Yet, that didn’t feel quite right to me. There seemed to be another white wolf that wanted to speak. Then I found out why.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2024-07-21T11:51:03-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/26899cef727491255a5e41b3ca1e2d92-173.html#unique-entry-id-173https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/26899cef727491255a5e41b3ca1e2d92-173.html#unique-entry-id-173Bluebell is a bison who lives at Earthfire Institute and Wildlife Sanctuary in Idaho. Years ago, the director, Susan Eirich, requested that I ask her these questions about healing the planet.

I am Bluebell, named by humans in a very appropriate way for my character, which is peaceful and connected with flowers. I am united with all the other bison, not just those in the present, but the rolling ancestral herds of long ago that thundered across the plains.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2024-07-10T11:42:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a2c4765e55c32593ac82a9c0fc57e649-172.html#unique-entry-id-172https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a2c4765e55c32593ac82a9c0fc57e649-172.html#unique-entry-id-172Article written by Kate Brower (now Solisti) for Species Link Issue 10, Winter 1993 about her animal communication journey

As a young child I heard plants, animals, and minerals speaking to me. I thought everybody could hear them. I quickly learned that this was not the case.

Hearing over and over, "It's just your imagination, dear" made me doubt the truth of my deeper connection. In order to be accepted by family and friends, I shut down my ability to hear. I tried to forget what I had heard, but somehow always remembered conversations with my cat.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2024-06-22T19:14:46-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/73c164ee072c41fbe84451aa95b36738-171.html#unique-entry-id-171https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/73c164ee072c41fbe84451aa95b36738-171.html#unique-entry-id-171An article in the June 2024 Sierra magazine talked about how dragonflies "hunt the insects humans hate—mosquitoes and gnats, deerflies and wasps—and their 95 percent success rate makes them nature’s most lethal predators….They can fly backward and sideways, dip up and down with ease, hover in place, and reach speeds up to 30 miles per hour. With their compound eyes, odonates process 200 images per second—over three times more than humans do—which produces a slow-motion effect that allows them to hyperfocus on prey.”

I marveled at this description of dragonfly abilities. It intrigued me enough that I decided to find out more from the masters themselves.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2024-06-11T08:48:48-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/5ca4e70987a831f21011cae18f658227-170.html#unique-entry-id-170https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/5ca4e70987a831f21011cae18f658227-170.html#unique-entry-id-170At a 1993 course in Massachusetts, an owl visited our group of animal communication students. She came from “Animals as Intermediaries” whose animal residents could not return to the wild after injury or human habituation. They were willing teachers in human education and therapy programs.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2024-05-18T12:48:21-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/dcc6c861e765efcf7d5933d463ec8e3f-169.html#unique-entry-id-169https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/dcc6c861e765efcf7d5933d463ec8e3f-169.html#unique-entry-id-169The ability to communicate with animals may begin with creatures you are comfortable with, such as cats and dogs. In my courses, I have loved to help people stretch their boundaries and become curious about animals outside their comfort zone to gain revelations and experience insightful breakthroughs. It is a very useful exercise to shift feelings about animals, especially those people are afraid of or even hate.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2024-05-02T16:55:43-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/bc90c8dbe09cc5f5875f32fe95f68ac1-168.html#unique-entry-id-168https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/bc90c8dbe09cc5f5875f32fe95f68ac1-168.html#unique-entry-id-168Whenever high-profile animals are featured in the media as stranded or injured, I get requests to communicate with and help them.

A two-year-old orca, which locals named “Little Brave Hunter” translated from the Ehattesaht First Nation language, became stranded in a lagoon along the northwest reaches of Vancouver Island when traveling with her mother.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2024-04-08T18:41:25-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0d7911db45ca5afc889b9170d6797a76-167.html#unique-entry-id-167https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0d7911db45ca5afc889b9170d6797a76-167.html#unique-entry-id-167I’ve taken many spirit-inspired journeys, traveling and camping with animal companions and communicating with trees, mountains, rivers, wild animals, and other elements of the land to help me on my way. When I moved from California to Arizona in 2006, I made many pilgrimages to places in the Western United States. Here is the story of one of those magical journeys.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2024-03-10T12:00:13-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/3167cf772c2057b87090d4a63cfe2317-166.html#unique-entry-id-166https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/3167cf772c2057b87090d4a63cfe2317-166.html#unique-entry-id-166What does Water think, and how does it feel about the current situation on our planet? How does it feel about humans, and what does Water suggest we do to help sustain its life-giving essence?

How do animals see Water? How do they feel about this necessary element? What effects does pollution have on them? What can we do to purify our water?
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2024-02-17T19:46:29-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/9a9807dbb4606a5749f9f9aa22bb556d-165.html#unique-entry-id-165https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/9a9807dbb4606a5749f9f9aa22bb556d-165.html#unique-entry-id-165Want to know the key ingredient for successful animal communication consultations and life in general?
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2024-02-09T16:21:38-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d10bfbde5413638b12ad49de86d1dfda-164.html#unique-entry-id-164https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d10bfbde5413638b12ad49de86d1dfda-164.html#unique-entry-id-164I met Dawn Baumann Brunke just before the turn of the century. (Whoa, that makes it sound like a very long time ago!) She was editor of Alaska Wellness magazine and interviewed me for her book, Animal Voices, https://www.animalvoices.net/ published in 2002. Here’s an excerpt from our interview for the chapter “When All the World is Wise.”
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2024-02-01T11:00:31-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/85d5820246bccc53b864460d235b5ae8-163.html#unique-entry-id-163https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/85d5820246bccc53b864460d235b5ae8-163.html#unique-entry-id-163Our animal communication group discussed how lost animals and animals passing over frequently seem connected to full moons. I have noticed more animals killed on the road after a full moon than at any other time, regardless of the state I have been in or the time of year. Something else also surprises me. Many times, I notice in one day a few of the same species who died on the road, such as several raccoons, cats, opossums, and even porcupines. What do animals have to say about the connection or reason behind these events?
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2024-01-24T19:46:13-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c9a235d03409d6f6fd7d30661b2579bb-162.html#unique-entry-id-162https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c9a235d03409d6f6fd7d30661b2579bb-162.html#unique-entry-id-162Laura Kilmer wrote to me just before Christmas 2023. She has practiced animal communication for four years and graduated from a program to become a professional animal communicator in August 2023. She had a question she couldn’t find an answer for.

Is it possible for humans to sense/know that their dog (or any other being) will be having a seizure soon?
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2024-01-08T19:12:54-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f0770ad49e06f96f244815525329b25c-161.html#unique-entry-id-161https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f0770ad49e06f96f244815525329b25c-161.html#unique-entry-id-161Part of a series of communications received by people from other species and life forms on how we can help restore the health of our planet.

I communicated with a herd of giraffes, specifically an elder female.

Conversing with cows living in a sanctuary…

I asked the American Buffalo what they felt about the decimation of their population…

I received this from three horses that I meditate with and from deer that live nearby…
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2023-12-20T20:27:33-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/eb00fe6b616f759e62c6b80bb1fc4130-160.html#unique-entry-id-160https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/eb00fe6b616f759e62c6b80bb1fc4130-160.html#unique-entry-id-160Question: Many of my animals have told me that when they or a human dies, it is the right time on the soul level. Many animals have asked me to give them time or let them pass on their own.

In animal communication courses, other animals also complained that they did not want to die and got thrown out of their bodies unprepared. Some said that far too many are put down against their will.

On the other hand, I communicated with a dog with many problems who was hoping his people would release him out of his body. Instead, his people tried again and again to keep him alive.

Can animals die too early or too late? What does this mean on the soul level? Is what bothers me a question of guilt and responsibility?
]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2023-12-20T15:12:12-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/22d088f6a47d40226dea6807687c0e4d-159.html#unique-entry-id-159https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/22d088f6a47d40226dea6807687c0e4d-159.html#unique-entry-id-159Looking out on my beautiful garden
Plants lovingly nestled into soil
Tended with care

Silence
Till I listen with my inner ear
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-12-04T18:33:33-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8bce6d2aa5c520951c86cc0c4a1b52b9-158.html#unique-entry-id-158https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/8bce6d2aa5c520951c86cc0c4a1b52b9-158.html#unique-entry-id-158Pam Youngquist wrote to me recently:

I have an urgent request for your communication services on behalf of the American Grey Wolves in Idaho.

The immediate situation is that 2000 wolves (their total population) living in Idaho are in immediate danger of state-sanctioned eradication of their species. The state wolf depredation program has just hired an expert animal control outfit to do all in its power to kill every wolf in the state.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-11-22T08:34:35-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/bd831189c5c507d97ff2719b9335c1ef-157.html#unique-entry-id-157https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/bd831189c5c507d97ff2719b9335c1ef-157.html#unique-entry-id-157Part of a series of communications received by people from other species and life forms on how we can help restore the health of our planet.

Kerrie Searle, Animal Communicator and Flower Essence Practitioner, shares her experience of making a Whale Essence.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2023-11-16T18:09:21-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b7ee38383dd4f82301ff5deca4609a22-156.html#unique-entry-id-156https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b7ee38383dd4f82301ff5deca4609a22-156.html#unique-entry-id-156My former dog, Belinda, touchingly greeted human friends. She would delicately place her nose near their lips, sniffing lightly, and then touch her nose to the center of their forehead, the third eye. She then paused for them to get her message that they should bend their head toward her so she could touch the crown. It was her special blessing and Namaste greeting.

My longhaired Chihuahua came to me at winter solstice 2018 from the same Small Dog Rescue that rescued Belinda.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-11-08T17:36:06-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/868a6bfc8e8ee5ee7caf74a04017690d-155.html#unique-entry-id-155https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/868a6bfc8e8ee5ee7caf74a04017690d-155.html#unique-entry-id-155Part of a series of communications received by people from other species and life forms on how we can help restore the health of our planet. These contributors turned to water and air elements for guidance.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2023-11-03T18:02:20-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ec4d38e07aea9267f5303c6250b312b6-154.html#unique-entry-id-154https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ec4d38e07aea9267f5303c6250b312b6-154.html#unique-entry-id-154In early October, I visited a friend in Flagstaff, Arizona, 125 miles from my home north of Phoenix. Afterward, I decided to continue to the Grand Canyon since it was only 80 miles further, and I hadn’t been there in years. Gazing into the canyon from the rim above is always awe-inspiring, expanding, and revitalizing.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-11-01T19:14:51-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cbf6f2baf4c8d81630bb23cb62e5ba17-153.html#unique-entry-id-153https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cbf6f2baf4c8d81630bb23cb62e5ba17-153.html#unique-entry-id-153A reader wrote to me of her Bald Eagle experience:

Bald Eagle's message to me changed my direction on life. I love animals and would much prefer hanging out with the furry, feathered, and scaled than my own species. I've been deeply hurt in the past, numerous times by people I trust and had happily been cocooned up to protect myself using COVID and my chemical sensitivities as the perfect excuse. Bald Eagle aims to change that.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-10-08T20:13:32-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/72a4c2690f447546489e448583f8acbe-152.html#unique-entry-id-152https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/72a4c2690f447546489e448583f8acbe-152.html#unique-entry-id-152Regula Kramer wrote to me in July requesting assistance in communicating with the bee population in Switzerland.

I am in contact with plants, and try to get the needs from and send messages to the cats I am living with. I am in doubt whether it's accurate, but I will continue.

Now I have a concrete issue I'd wish help for.

I wish to enhance the living conditions for bees in my home country, Switzerland. I wish to know how we can best support them to be healthy and thriving again. I would like to know from their perspective what the biggest threat is in Switzerland and what they think could be solutions.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2023-09-29T19:17:17-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fe22b5e2ce5fb4d4cbf4c81d9a82d5f0-151.html#unique-entry-id-151https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fe22b5e2ce5fb4d4cbf4c81d9a82d5f0-151.html#unique-entry-id-151Barbara Janelle left this world early Monday morning, 25 September 2023 in Santa Barbara, California. I remember her as a beautiful soul when she studied with me. A well-loved animal communicator and teacher, known for her compassion and wisdom, I am among the many people who will miss her.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2023-09-18T19:33:31-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/42375ae14ed4a5c5bd1d0f4894cec3e0-150.html#unique-entry-id-150https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/42375ae14ed4a5c5bd1d0f4894cec3e0-150.html#unique-entry-id-150When I did animal consultations years ago, people would leave requests for consultations on my answering machine (later on voicemail) when I couldn’t answer the phone. I would return to find a message about their animal friend being in distress, asking if I could help them. Then, I would hear a following message thanking me for helping their animal friend. They said they didn’t need a consultation after all, since the problem resolved soon after they called me.

How did this happen? Was a genie in the answering machine fulfilling their wishes?
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-09-03T14:33:33-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4d8a46a52089e52fa677f668bc04cf4e-149.html#unique-entry-id-149https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4d8a46a52089e52fa677f668bc04cf4e-149.html#unique-entry-id-149Part of a series of communications received by people from other species and life forms on how we can help restore the health of our planet.

This story from Briana Halliwell (HolyWell) shows how important it is for us to take note when animals communicate to us while we are awake or through our dreams.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-08-16T10:37:42-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f78596b58412a9e47595442c144866d2-148.html#unique-entry-id-148https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f78596b58412a9e47595442c144866d2-148.html#unique-entry-id-148Part of a series of communications received by people from other species and life forms on how we can help restore the health of our planet.

We hear no-nonsense advice from a sparrow, robin, blackbird, two cats, and bees.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-08-01T16:07:52-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/85840db3f270bbc16ca1609f0a636d4c-147.html#unique-entry-id-147https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/85840db3f270bbc16ca1609f0a636d4c-147.html#unique-entry-id-147A reader asked about the large pod of about 100 pilot whales stranded off a beach in western Australia recently. They formed a heart shape before they died.

Please read the long communication of a larger group of pilot whales stranded in 2020, which also applies to the current stranding.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-07-22T18:46:01-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4b9044f2d97b10b4c281dd70a40a11a7-146.html#unique-entry-id-146https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4b9044f2d97b10b4c281dd70a40a11a7-146.html#unique-entry-id-146Part of a series of communications received by people from other species and life forms on Earth, on how we can help restore the health of our planet.

Lisa Fraser wrote this communication she received from whales, published in Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 86, Spring 2012.

This morning I awoke early. It was still dark as I went out into the cold. I felt the magic of the waning full moon bathing my world in white light. But so early? It was the whales. They wanted me to feel the moment and hear their message.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-07-16T20:01:30-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cc041a7c27391b4af131bb758194e11f-145.html#unique-entry-id-145https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cc041a7c27391b4af131bb758194e11f-145.html#unique-entry-id-145After my last blog with the Orca message, Leslie Corin-Ash wrote to me about her desire to find out from other animal communicators around the world if they have asked animals what they are thinking and feeling about the huge climate changes on Earth and what they might want to do about it.

She relates her experience:
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2023-06-16T11:58:55-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0d71a609013437c743a402804e9630fd-144.html#unique-entry-id-144https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0d71a609013437c743a402804e9630fd-144.html#unique-entry-id-144I am curious about the orca attacks in the Mediterranean. Since 2020, orcas have been mysteriously attacking sailboats. They don't hurt the sailors, but they have been known to aim straight for the rudder, with no playing whatsoever. Since 2020, there have been 500 interactions. Three resulted in sunken ships. Reports say that one female orca has begun the attacks, and the others are copying. Scientists are unsure whether the orcas are attacking, playing, or teaching their young to "hunt" by pretending that rudders are tuna.

Do you have any insight into this situation? My husband and I are both sailors and we planned to sail through this region. I am curious to hear about the orcas' motives, and if there is anything we can say to them to discourage them from attacking boats.
]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2023-06-13T18:37:56-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/56d24b925ae3cc7304318b6364c60641-143.html#unique-entry-id-143https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/56d24b925ae3cc7304318b6364c60641-143.html#unique-entry-id-143by Akshaya Kawle
Akshaya is an animal communicator who sponsored an online class I taught with animal communicators in India. The Code of Ethics section from that class can be found on my YouTube channel

Five years ago, I embarked on a remarkable journey by conducting my first Intuitive Animal Communication Workshop. Little did I know that this experience would not only deepen my understanding of the natural world but also unravel profound insights about myself and the interconnectedness of all living beings.]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2023-05-26T21:45:53-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f40ab19ea4ac48a0d2a62dcf79ac12a6-142.html#unique-entry-id-142https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f40ab19ea4ac48a0d2a62dcf79ac12a6-142.html#unique-entry-id-142On Tuesday, May 22, the day after Mo’s passing, as I gave his body back to Mother Earth in tender ceremony, a female tortoise contacted me. She told me it was part of their plan to be with me as guardians and friends in ancient reptile form. He got the first turn, and now she was coming to me. Her presence was powerful and friendly, with a sly sense of humor.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2023-05-22T10:25:25-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cd781533730579a3d580fac46ff3e412-141.html#unique-entry-id-141https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cd781533730579a3d580fac46ff3e412-141.html#unique-entry-id-141Mo, my deep and wise Sonoran desert tortoise friend, died today, 21 May 2023. This morning, I picked 60 desert willow and ruellia flowers. He happily chomped his favorite treats. That’s the last time I saw him alive.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2023-05-02T20:38:19-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/251daa318477d2a80de197e48fac227c-140.html#unique-entry-id-140https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/251daa318477d2a80de197e48fac227c-140.html#unique-entry-id-140As animal communicators, we know what an animal is feeling, can identify the personality of the animal to our clients, see images, feelings, hear words, and more. For example: I tell a client that one of her three dogs is just the funniest dog in the world and she says, “Oh, he is, he is!” The animal tells us what s/he needs and then when I check in with clients a few weeks later, the issues are usually resolved. Sometimes I get feelings about what is going on with the animals before I even make the phone call to the client.

People often ask me how this works. What do you say to people when they ask you: How do you do this? How do we know all this? Is there a scientific explanation? I would love a simple explanation that would make sense to people and also for myself.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2023-04-06T20:55:41-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/71be34841ffc5529dec84103a60be179-139.html#unique-entry-id-139https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/71be34841ffc5529dec84103a60be179-139.html#unique-entry-id-139As I was beginning to teach a Basic Course on How to Communicate with Animals years ago, my mentors, the Great Whales, communicated:

Have them feel the animals through their feet on the ground.

They showed me how we as individuals of all species are connected to each other through our bodies on the Earth no matter where we are.

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2023-03-24T21:02:41-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c540ba3b97f8e8d28afe4f6d979bc57f-138.html#unique-entry-id-138https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c540ba3b97f8e8d28afe4f6d979bc57f-138.html#unique-entry-id-138It’s spring and the garden beckons. An article I wrote in Species Link Journal over thirty years ago illustrates how gardening can deepen our interspecies telepathic connection.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2023-03-12T20:34:10-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0ee0780650079f0202161d0d8415cca8-137.html#unique-entry-id-137https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0ee0780650079f0202161d0d8415cca8-137.html#unique-entry-id-137The feline members of our families bring a professional craftsmanship to the art of premeditated slumber. Even a catnap can make a hard windowsill look like the coziest spot in the house. A cat’s truest, deepest sleep is ardent, purposeful, intense.

Just exactly where are these sleep aficionados going when they close their eyes? What is it they’re doing in their dreams?

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2023-02-23T14:39:42-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/da51f23fa72a74df027fcdd337985366-136.html#unique-entry-id-136https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/da51f23fa72a74df027fcdd337985366-136.html#unique-entry-id-136Communicating with viruses or other microorganisms may feel like a stretch if you think of animal communication applying mainly to dogs, horses, cats, or other mammals. However, communicating with smaller life forms, even as tiny as cells, can yield enlightening results. Sue Becker echoes my experience in communicating with viruses in her article here.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2023-02-15T20:25:12-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/713d23e6d76be1ef2e83722304ceed4b-135.html#unique-entry-id-135https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/713d23e6d76be1ef2e83722304ceed4b-135.html#unique-entry-id-135Researchers are studying the field of interspecies telepathic communication in new ways that go beyond old scientific research models that do not adequately approach or reveal the multifaceted results of this subject. These contemporary scientists have also taken intuitive interspecies communication classes. Some are even practicing professionals in the field. It is an exciting time for enormous expansion to new people who may not have been open to or even have heard of animal communication.

I put together this comprehensive article with revealing contributions from other seasoned animal communicators about scientific proof, published in Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 53 Winter 2004. Enjoy the time you take to dive into its riches.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2023-01-25T20:53:00-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/9b1ace7f7ed6beb1fe7abc775e0d061c-134.html#unique-entry-id-134https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/9b1ace7f7ed6beb1fe7abc775e0d061c-134.html#unique-entry-id-134David Louis left our Earth abode for spaces beyond on January 24, 2023. As I ponder and connect with his journey, I’m writing this tribute to him.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2023-01-03T10:33:48-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fcc80d92bbf93ae81f44787be9c3c284-133.html#unique-entry-id-133https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fcc80d92bbf93ae81f44787be9c3c284-133.html#unique-entry-id-133This series highlights the inspiring breakthroughs of early animal communicators, who began their professional careers thirty or more years ago. Val Heart has cultivated expertise in an ever increasing variety of healing modalities to help animals and their people. Amber Petrik interviewed her for this “Featured Animal Communicator” column for Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 82, Spring 2011.


]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2022-12-28T18:41:16-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/aac4a999626aa0814ac22b4be42af938-132.html#unique-entry-id-132https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/aac4a999626aa0814ac22b4be42af938-132.html#unique-entry-id-132A sentinel and testament to our planetary state, she labors on, providing a stream of awakening consciousness and compassion to all.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2022-12-12T19:38:48-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b8f6cce48a037f1785619cc2d817ab37-131.html#unique-entry-id-131https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b8f6cce48a037f1785619cc2d817ab37-131.html#unique-entry-id-131The ocean journey was particularly rough as we sailed from our dock at Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic to our anchoring spot in the sheltered coral reef area that thousands of humpback whales frequent each year for breeding and nursing new babies. The high waves crashed heavily against our metal hulled vessel, pitching us mercilessly on a wild roller coaster ride as we moved at the fast clip necessary to safely navigate the ocean in that area. Three hours later, as we neared our destination, I was desperately wishing for the choppiness to stop, so that my nausea would subside. I then planned to rest a bit and surface from my cabin refuge with some semblance of composure to see how everyone else was doing. My rational vision turned out to be one of those best laid plans that go awry.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-12-06T20:52:59-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6307dae90be0ed0af01959b4e4eecde1-130.html#unique-entry-id-130https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6307dae90be0ed0af01959b4e4eecde1-130.html#unique-entry-id-130This series highlights the inspiring breakthroughs of early animal communicators, who began their professional careers thirty or more years ago. This article is derived from the “Featured Animal Communicator” column where I interviewed Anita Curtis for Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 59, Autumn 2005. Those who discover animal communication later in life can be encouraged by Anita Curtis' adventurous path.

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2022-11-16T20:11:18-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/735497ed3796fb117e7a45ed543be3ea-129.html#unique-entry-id-129https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/735497ed3796fb117e7a45ed543be3ea-129.html#unique-entry-id-129I am a caretaker for a colony of seventeen feral cats and seven indoor/outdoor cats. An abundance of poison ivy grows on my property and the cats lie on these plants. I got a severe rash last year on the inside of my calves and on my neck. One of my indoor/outdoor cats, Nutberger, who likes to walk between my legs to get me to pick her up and hold her over my shoulder, gave me the poison ivy rash. I had to go through two courses of steroids, one course of antibiotics, and two tubes of Zanfel (skin wash that binds with urushiol, the oil in poison ivy that causes the itch) to get relief last summer. I gave Nutberger a bath to get the oil off her. This year I got it on my forearm and used the Zanfel right away and that kept it under control.

I know you can talk to plants as well as animals, but a plant can’t uproot and move somewhere else as a solution. Perhaps the cats could lie somewhere else but poison ivy is all around their feeding station. I don’t necessarily want to kill the poison ivy but I don’t want to be badly affected by its oil. Do you have any ideas?

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-11-08T20:19:57-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d592f3cb6a0bb9f5a481edf383c2eafb-128.html#unique-entry-id-128https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d592f3cb6a0bb9f5a481edf383c2eafb-128.html#unique-entry-id-128This series highlights the inspiring breakthroughs of early animal communicators, who began their professional careers over thirty years ago. This article is derived from the “Featured Animal Communicator” column in Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 64, Autumn 2006. You may well be as amazed at Elizabeth Severino’s accomplishments as I am.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2022-10-21T19:13:16-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cb5b61cea294694ce0cbc98479bc912c-127.html#unique-entry-id-127https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cb5b61cea294694ce0cbc98479bc912c-127.html#unique-entry-id-127I would love to hear others' experiences of using animal communication to affect "present moment real time" behavior.

After communication sessions, I see dramatic and immediate behavior changes in client animals all the time. And yet, I can't telepathically say to my pony (who loves treats) "I have an apple for you; come get it!" and get any sort of response. Yet if I physically show him the apple, he stops grazing and trots right over.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2022-09-22T16:52:50-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/eb838906f028b573dff16f6264a2073b-126.html#unique-entry-id-126https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/eb838906f028b573dff16f6264a2073b-126.html#unique-entry-id-126In an online mentoring class I did recently, many questions were submitted that I didn’t have time to answer. Here’s one of them:

How does a recent picture of the animal help the animal communicator (if they are off of the premises)? Beverly Taylor

A similar question was answered in Species Link, The Voice of Experience Column Issue 60, Autumn 2005.


]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-09-17T19:31:41-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/7ee77775a55df288e886ab1e11468b07-125.html#unique-entry-id-125https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/7ee77775a55df288e886ab1e11468b07-125.html#unique-entry-id-125This series highlights the inspiring breakthroughs of early animal communicators, who began their professional careers over thirty years ago. I wrote this article after interviewing Jacquelin Smith for the “Featured Animal Communicator” column in Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 60, Autumn 2005. Read the fascinating story of how the door to Jacquelin’s psychic abilities opened wide after a near death experience.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-09-12T16:21:44-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/851755c096a938e9794b671b6919beca-124.html#unique-entry-id-124https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/851755c096a938e9794b671b6919beca-124.html#unique-entry-id-124I have recently been considering the question "Are all animal communicators 'Pet Psychics'?".

How other animal communicators view the term “Pet Psychic” seems to be rather varied. I am puzzled. One very respected communicator’s website specifically states that she is not a pet psychic, whereas another respected communicator’s book details on its cover the author listed as one of America’s top psychics and during a workshop I attended referred to herself as an animal psychic. Contrarily, I became aware that another communicator has recently removed the words “pet psychic” from alongside her main heading on her website.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-09-01T16:55:49-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4dd869880e519e9bfad09807f1d76515-123.html#unique-entry-id-123https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4dd869880e519e9bfad09807f1d76515-123.html#unique-entry-id-123This series highlights the inspiring breakthroughs of early animal communicators, who began their professional careers over thirty years ago.

When I wrote a tribute to Jeri Ryan after her death on March 25, 2022, I had not yet gone through the Species Link Journal archives to uncover this interview from Issue 65, Winter 2007. I’m glad to have this information for reference, because it’s easy to forget after fifteen years that it was written, even though I wrote it!

In this edited version of the Featured Animal Communicator column Jeri gives details of her upbringing, intriguing twists and turns of her life, and how she came to experience her animal connection. Animal communicators will also benefit from her detailed description of her consultation methods and her client results. May you find her interview fascinating and enlightening.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Welfare2022-08-18T21:07:42-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/188a89ec2e1dff5fc66ed86c89f90652-122.html#unique-entry-id-122https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/188a89ec2e1dff5fc66ed86c89f90652-122.html#unique-entry-id-122I contributed to an article titled:
What Pet Owners Need to Know About Homebuying, including features of a pet-friendly home and neighborhood.

Animal specialists give practical information on meeting animals’ needs when you move and helping them to feel safe and happy in their new home environment. I was pleased to add something about the helpfulness of communicating with animals.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2022-07-22T13:54:10-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/5d686c71cd80f942ee436aa9dcfa5492-121.html#unique-entry-id-121https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/5d686c71cd80f942ee436aa9dcfa5492-121.html#unique-entry-id-121Animals have much to teach us with their innate wisdom about life, including dealing with other human beings. This story by animal communicator, Dawn Hayman, illustrates how animals focus on the positive in their present environment. The tone of this example can help us recognize when we are receiving communication directly from animals rather than lacing it with human projection.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2022-07-16T11:08:19-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d52fd80b98bb3950c16cc0226cad05c6-119.html#unique-entry-id-119https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d52fd80b98bb3950c16cc0226cad05c6-119.html#unique-entry-id-119The four new members of our chicken family, Gandalf, Tatiana, Cassandra, and Georgia, graduated from living in the garage. (See my June 12 blog for news of their arrival.) They were ready to move to their outdoor pen in the big chicken run when they were one month old on July 6.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-07-06T21:14:28-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/643278161bcc1fbf9d858383ba30a508-118.html#unique-entry-id-118https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/643278161bcc1fbf9d858383ba30a508-118.html#unique-entry-id-118This series highlights the inspiring breakthroughs of early animal communicators, who began their professional careers over thirty years ago. This article is based on the “Featured Animal Communicator” column where I interviewed Betty Lewis for Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 63, Summer 2006. Her path in animal service careers is a rich one.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2022-06-12T13:43:29-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-friends-returning.html#unique-entry-id-117https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-friends-returning.html#unique-entry-id-117Tatiana was the tiniest hen in my chicken family, a black curly-feathered/frizzle Serama, the smallest breed of chickens in the world. She was sweet yet plucky, often having to dodge the other chickens as she usually occupied the bottom place in the pecking order.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-05-24T19:12:30-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/87cc7518dcac5134b48780537b3050b0-116.html#unique-entry-id-116https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/87cc7518dcac5134b48780537b3050b0-116.html#unique-entry-id-116This series highlights the inspiring breakthroughs of early animal communicators, who began their professional careers over thirty years ago. This article is based on the “Featured Animal Communicator” column where I interviewed Dawn Hayman for Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 67, Summer 2007. I hope you’ll find Dawn’s story as fascinating as I did.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-05-19T19:13:54-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cd4148a65db1ca926d7d66da1475997a-115.html#unique-entry-id-115https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/cd4148a65db1ca926d7d66da1475997a-115.html#unique-entry-id-115Moved by the recent death of animal communicator, Jeri Ryan, I wish to celebrate early animal communication students who became dedicated professionals in the field. This article is derived from the “Featured Animal Communicator” story I wrote for Species Link, The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, Issue 62, Spring 2006.

Carol Gurney was one of my first animal communication students who became an accomplished animal communicator and teacher of animal communication.

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2022-05-07T18:45:09-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fe75568c85c67455526656b64a3b83de-114.html#unique-entry-id-114https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fe75568c85c67455526656b64a3b83de-114.html#unique-entry-id-114I try to not to harm any creature, I believe each has its place in the big scheme of things, but following a move to the Scottish Highlands, I'm really struggling with ticks. Occasional sheep ticks but lots of deer ticks. My dog picks them up and I treat her homeopathically and with a herbal collar. I'd be interested to know your thoughts on the purpose of ticks and anything I can do to lessen their impact on our lives, also what to do with them when they drop off or I remove them. At the moment I stamp on them but it doesn't sit well with me.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2022-04-09T16:39:37-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ad1e4ab99aac9904ec7758c09a01189e-112.html#unique-entry-id-112https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ad1e4ab99aac9904ec7758c09a01189e-112.html#unique-entry-id-112Jeri Ryan left her physical form on Earth and took off for more expansive realms on March 25, 2022. After studying animal communication with me in the late 1970s/early 80s, she became the first professional animal communicator who had trained with me.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2022-04-05T21:50:04-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/493bb8bdc90b3fd28b54507efbf4deed-111.html#unique-entry-id-111https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/493bb8bdc90b3fd28b54507efbf4deed-111.html#unique-entry-id-111This message sent to me by Laura Pyke about a zoo lion rescued during war is a beautiful example of the wisdom that animals gracefully share with humankind.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2022-03-06T18:09:04-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/81f06d7dae41da841034edd052c7ae2a-110.html#unique-entry-id-110https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/81f06d7dae41da841034edd052c7ae2a-110.html#unique-entry-id-110People often email me their questions about animal communication or their animal friends. As appropriate, I refer them to animal communicators for a professional consultation. Others I refer to publications or other professionals such as veterinarians for help. When I feel I can answer quickly in a helpful way, especially with people I know, I buzz off a response. Here are a few more of these questions and my answers as food-for-thought.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2022-02-28T19:32:24-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c9fcaa587d45f9584f7c88ec190915a5-109.html#unique-entry-id-109https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/c9fcaa587d45f9584f7c88ec190915a5-109.html#unique-entry-id-109People often email me their questions about animal communication or their animal friends. As appropriate, I refer them to animal communicators for a professional consultation. Others I refer to publications or other professionals such as veterinarians for help. When I feel I can answer quickly in a helpful way, especially with people I know, I buzz off a response. Here are a few of these questions and my answers as food-for-thought.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2022-02-16T07:03:04-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/37566935260dc96c4d81c88555f0e87f-108.html#unique-entry-id-108https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/37566935260dc96c4d81c88555f0e87f-108.html#unique-entry-id-108Would you share with us how America's Wild Horses are faring with the massive roundups by the Bureau of Land Management over the last year(s)? In 2021, I read over 18,000 have been unceremoniously and somewhat carelessly rounded up and shipped to government holding pens. Over 100 horses have been killed in the process. Given our partnership with these creatures over millennia, it seems a great tragedy. Are they willing to share what, if anything, we can do to support them, outside of advocating for their protection or adoption?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2022-01-28T19:44:22-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/2260d18873c8e6b3a0a126bbacbae5e1-107.html#unique-entry-id-107https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/2260d18873c8e6b3a0a126bbacbae5e1-107.html#unique-entry-id-107Beloved Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh left his human form on 22 January 2022. His recorded wisdom and loving smiles continue to enlighten us about the connection of all life. This excerpt from The Heart Sutra: the Fullness of Emptiness by Thich Nhat Hanh expresses so beautifully what he learned from communicating with a leaf.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2022-01-19T21:37:13-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e7c69b500edc261ebfb464e117dad4c3-106.html#unique-entry-id-106https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e7c69b500edc261ebfb464e117dad4c3-106.html#unique-entry-id-106In the late 1970s, students taking my beginning classes on animal communication urged me to write a book on the subject. The first edition of Animal Talk: A Guide to Communicating with and Understanding Animals was born. Getting it published to reach an interested audience was another story.

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2021-12-31T18:32:15-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0e565f565d46320bd7ca9cadc932a8ee-105.html#unique-entry-id-105https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0e565f565d46320bd7ca9cadc932a8ee-105.html#unique-entry-id-105I watched a video with a well-known guru who often shares practical wisdom about life.

In answering a person’s question, he stated how human life is much more complex than other species and how we have more choices and are at the top of the species pyramid. I bristled at his words extolling the separation of humans from other species in this common notion of human superiority.

He went on to say that other animals don’t have the choices humans have, citing as an example an earthworm.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2021-12-20T15:05:11-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6dd923cee2588fbc2603925a32a90c06-104.html#unique-entry-id-104https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6dd923cee2588fbc2603925a32a90c06-104.html#unique-entry-id-104Many people in the Western world consider themselves as separate from the rest of Nature, human spectators alienated from the whole web of life. They often do not recognize our interdependence with all beings on Earth and that animals, plants, minerals, and all the natural elements have much to teach us about balance and integration of spirit with form.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2021-11-30T21:10:26-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b6ed69079ac3f182e28e87a3bde691d1-103.html#unique-entry-id-103https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b6ed69079ac3f182e28e87a3bde691d1-103.html#unique-entry-id-103I’ve received a few emails recently asking about helping wild animals that illustrate what may not be helpful from animals’ perspectives.

Can you communicate with raccoons and let them know that a person is dangerous to them?


]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2021-11-16T20:09:01-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6e347e81565cce4637b9cbc63ce4dd0b-102.html#unique-entry-id-102https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6e347e81565cce4637b9cbc63ce4dd0b-102.html#unique-entry-id-102When people first start training as animal communicators, they are often unsure and hesitant about relaying the communication they receive from animals. As their instructor, I commonly had to coax students to say what communication they got, since they weren’t sure it was “right” or that they got anything at all and didn’t want to look foolish.

When students were doing course exercises with other people’s animal companions, instead of just telling what they got from the animal to the person, they might hedge their bets.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2021-11-06T21:13:18-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ae9205b8131611fe0db827655f907aa8-101.html#unique-entry-id-101https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ae9205b8131611fe0db827655f907aa8-101.html#unique-entry-id-101Enjoy this clear and insightful Guest Blog by Nancy Windheart

One of the topics I’m asked about frequently as an animal communicator is, “Do animals take on illness for people?”

The short answer to this question is yes. And the longer answer to this question is much more nuanced and complex.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2021-10-18T11:31:29-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/06aba9d3bdf095e8cadba26f88ca340e-100.html#unique-entry-id-100https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/06aba9d3bdf095e8cadba26f88ca340e-100.html#unique-entry-id-100All of us who are close to animals and love and honor them as fellow beings may have encounters with our domestic and wild animal friends that are downright mystical.

Soul to soul connections go beyond whatever bodily form we happen to be animating. Souls and energy fields can merge ecstatically or in profound peace, and joy.

Having always recognized animals, plants, mountains, soil, and all other forms as soul-filled, just like me, mystical connections with them have showered me with blessings throughout my life. Here are a few recent experiences.

May they spark your own memories of deep interspecies connections and encourage you to make more space and time for them to occur in your life.

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2021-09-30T14:44:36-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/927898ade2a11445828ca76ced168af5-99.html#unique-entry-id-99https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/927898ade2a11445828ca76ced168af5-99.html#unique-entry-id-99In August of this year, I made a pilgrimage to the giant sequoias of the Sierra Nevada in California. I visited Alder Creek Grove, joining a group from Save the Redwoods League who helped purchase the property to preserve the largest remaining giant sequoia grove owned by private landowners. A disk in the ground with my name marked the space of a tree not far uphill I affectionately called the “Penelope Sequoia”.

The trip was originally scheduled for last year, but intense fires raging in California ended up spreading through Alder Creek at that time. Sadly, the drought-driven flaming torrents killed thousands of the hardy, fire-resistant, thick barked, ancient giant sequoias in the area.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2021-09-13T16:05:17-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b0d59425da5c04f778bd78eb4c61e55f-98.html#unique-entry-id-98https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b0d59425da5c04f778bd78eb4c61e55f-98.html#unique-entry-id-98The enormous physical size of whales echoes the enormity of their consciousness and why they are here on Earth.

Researchers have written about whales’ important physical role in maintaining the balance of life and fertility of oceanic animals and plants. They also found that whales are responsible for extracting hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon from the atmosphere to provide cleaner and healthier air for life on the whole planet.

Being in the presence of whales and communicating with them reveals not only their physical role in the web of life but their vast spiritual awareness and benevolence.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2021-08-22T19:31:50-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/daf956f027c09138c3638b2cb9eb2389-97.html#unique-entry-id-97https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/daf956f027c09138c3638b2cb9eb2389-97.html#unique-entry-id-97Chickens have been part of my animal family since 1985.

I’ll never forget when I got my first four chickens and released them from their carrying cages. These full-grown hens had never had their feet on the earth before. Their wonderment about the soil, plants, and other sights of the countryside from their securely fenced run was palpable. They looked around in every direction and made soft chicken “oooh” sounds.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2021-08-02T11:59:52-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a1e6372ccb94b76400c841d4d1ae47cf-94.html#unique-entry-id-94https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a1e6372ccb94b76400c841d4d1ae47cf-94.html#unique-entry-id-94I was speaking to a puppy, Tutu, who had transitioned recently. She was living on the street with her family and was in and out of homes when her mother was neutered, then again when she had Parvo. She was adopted for a few days and abandoned. She was upset when I connected with her, and wanted closure as to why she was not allowed to just be by the feeder and that she could never really belong and felt unwanted. This was my first experience for an animal seeking closure and I was not sure if it was me projecting. When I spoke with other experienced communicators, everyone said it was my projection or the animal mirroring the need for closure of the human. But I still feel in my heart that it was the animal. Would you have an insight into an animal's soul journey? Could they like us also need closure? Could they too have unresolved issues?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2021-07-25T20:16:21-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fb8f309ed4204942b54da204fed3b566-92.html#unique-entry-id-92https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fb8f309ed4204942b54da204fed3b566-92.html#unique-entry-id-92I live in the Sonoran Desert in a rural area north of Phoenix, Arizona on beautiful land surrounded by mountains and filled with an amazing array of wild animals.

Summer brings Monsoon, when a shift in wind direction from dry westerly to moist southerly winds brings a season punctuated by big winds, lightning and thunder storms and flash floods. The last two summers have been excruciating dry, a drought exacerbated by very little rain last winter. We hoped for a good rainy season this summer.

The first big rain of the monsoon brought a surprise to my door.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2021-07-22T13:01:13-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a49cdd5da39aa0a408be04aae4f2202b-91.html#unique-entry-id-91https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a49cdd5da39aa0a408be04aae4f2202b-91.html#unique-entry-id-91Lisa Mapes writes:
I was called upon to meet with a dog that I helped in the past. This time I found his behavior so unusual. He seemed to be in another dimension and was very ungrounded. How do you ground someone who is so taken over by another realm? I know food can help, and play with the other dogs, and I know he loves the land. But the energies come over him and he floats away, sometimes ending up down the road in the subdivision! I am amazed with what I am seeing and was wondering if you have had dealings like this? Such a fascinating and powerful situation. The horses honored him and the dogs just allowed him to be, even as he paced or floated through the house at night. When he would look at me he would hold my gaze and look through me. I just feel so honored to know him, to have the experience of him.


Yes, I have been asked to help animals who were so immersed in other realms that they did not function well in the physical world and remained in an expanded but dysfunctional, ungrounded state, partially or wholly disconnected from their bodies. Bodies may be left to run on automatic when beings are not fully connected and in control. They may be jumpy, easily startled, prone to run away, or have behavior and health problems.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2021-06-23T16:13:36-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/euthanasia-and-the-pastel-cat.html#unique-entry-id-90https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/euthanasia-and-the-pastel-cat.html#unique-entry-id-90I’ve known Kathy Runnion since 1984, when I moved to Inverness, California next to Point Reyes National Seashore. Known for her friendliness as she worked in the post office, she was awarded for her loving service after she started Planned Feralhood in 2002 to manage the burgeoning feral cat population in the area. When I moved to Arizona in 2006, I continued to help Kathy by communicating with the cats in her sanctuary as needed.

Recently, she called me to help with Zoe, a cat with a large squamous cell carcinoma in her mouth endangering her swallowing and breathing. The vet advised euthanasia. Kathy was emotionally torn…

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Welfare2021-06-05T15:46:47-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fb19ffe8f20a236058f1f9103d906de4-89.html#unique-entry-id-89https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/fb19ffe8f20a236058f1f9103d906de4-89.html#unique-entry-id-89In response to my last article, Why Animals May Not Speak Up About Abuse, a reader asked:

What do you do when you suspect abuse or the animal tells you he's being abused? I know many of us would want to rescue the animal but we can't do that always and it could make things worse for the animal. What is the best thing to do that would be in the best interest of the animal without insulting the owner or becoming angry? Elaine Winter, MSW, LCSW

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Welfare2021-05-18T16:51:02-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/490a6e7ae67742b1b6597a786bd99207-88.html#unique-entry-id-88https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/490a6e7ae67742b1b6597a786bd99207-88.html#unique-entry-id-88An equine therapist wrote to me years ago with a very earnest and powerful question. I’ve expanded the answer I wrote to her for this column.

I recently listened to a talk you gave and I was very delighted with your message(s). The message I most gratefully got from your talk that I have been wanting to hear from the Animal Communication world is:

"I want everyone to learn how to listen to their own animals.”

As a bodywork practitioner, observer, and absolute lover of animals, I have had a resistance to Animal Communication popularity simply because I have so many clients who are paying huge amounts of money for someone to "talk" to their animals when the animal is practically jumping up and down screaming at their person to just notice what they are trying to “say."

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2021-05-03T18:37:12-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/1d5bd78c09002c4696992f7525ccc649-87.html#unique-entry-id-87https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/1d5bd78c09002c4696992f7525ccc649-87.html#unique-entry-id-87I was revamping the garden of my Sonoran desert tortoise, Mo, shifting blocks in the retaining wall and putting in a few large planter boxes. Mo was trundling around, munching on grass and exploring, when he suddenly made a beeline to one of the large planters I had on its side as I was cleaning it.

He plodded around my feet and proceeded to climb into the planter. I picked him up and put him back on the ground to finish cleaning. He climbed back in. We repeated the scenario a few times with me laughing at Mo’s persistence and vaguely, in the background, puzzling about his unusual behavior as I stayed focused on my garden work.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2021-04-15T20:23:00-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f180144e8fef74cad4c4ae5f5292b060-86.html#unique-entry-id-86https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f180144e8fef74cad4c4ae5f5292b060-86.html#unique-entry-id-86When I post an article or video on Facebook about an animal helping to rescue or heal others of its own kind or other species, including human, I have seen comments like these:

• Oh, animals are such angels! If only humans could be like them, the world would be a better place.

• I wish I could live in the world surrounded by animals. It would be so much more peaceful.

• Even the wildest non-human animal does not premeditate harm or hate or act cruelly towards its own or other species as many human animals do.

• Animals are full of unconditional love, unlike humans. Only humans destroy each other and everything in the natural world around them.

• Animals' consciousness is clear of obstructive, conflicting dynamics. Animals live in their authenticity almost all the time.

These comments seem to propose that humans are malign creatures and animals are saints.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2021-03-26T20:10:26-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e6caf7c25683974f6cb21e942ffc3e10-85.html#unique-entry-id-85https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e6caf7c25683974f6cb21e942ffc3e10-85.html#unique-entry-id-85Some animal communicators have had the experience in long-distance consultations when clients test them by asking them to communicate with an animal but hide the fact that the animal has died.

Readers have asked: Why doesn’t an animal communicator know if an animal who is not present is alive or dead?

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2021-03-17T20:07:41-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f21307775c448dacbe82fddfa61fc713-84.html#unique-entry-id-84https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/f21307775c448dacbe82fddfa61fc713-84.html#unique-entry-id-84Helping people with their animal friends as an animal communicator can be demanding work. To do it well requires a great deal of sensitivity, calm, centered presence, compassion, clear and deep communication, dedication to our own spiritual/emotional growth, strength, and courage.

It is not a profession for the faint of heart.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2021-02-23T19:37:54-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/960ad72fcf1a5eb6a978f9fba458694e-83.html#unique-entry-id-83https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/960ad72fcf1a5eb6a978f9fba458694e-83.html#unique-entry-id-83People often underestimate animals’ awareness, understanding, and conscious engagement with the world around them, especially their awareness of human activities.

Animals can be masters of being quiet while fully surveying and feeling their environment with heightened awareness. They can be aware of currents of energy and events far beyond their immediate surroundings and survey events happening around the world through their own species or interspecies connections.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2021-02-15T20:06:19-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d14625fdca46c082bcfcb08f401ba873-82.html#unique-entry-id-82https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d14625fdca46c082bcfcb08f401ba873-82.html#unique-entry-id-82I’m a South African, but have recently moved to Botswana where I operate a small company with my twin sister that does private guided wildlife safaris. Up until a few months ago I didn’t know much about the topic of animal communication until I did a hypnosis session with my clairvoyant friend and the animal kingdom came to me and told me I must learn to communicate with animals before I moved from South Africa to Botswana. I have recently arrived in Botswana and I have had some profound communication with the animals. I’m quite new at this still. I have been reading your books and found so much inspiration and guidance from your wisdom.

I’m reaching out to you to ask if you know anything about the mysterious deaths of the elephants in Botswana? They have been mysteriously dying in a kneeling position. Around 330 elephants died between May-July 2020 in the northern Okavango Delta near the area where the Okavango River flows from Namibia into Botswana. 11 Have died again very recently.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2021-02-06T11:26:53-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/71c0a2260bfc364773d519f13424afd1-81.html#unique-entry-id-81https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/71c0a2260bfc364773d519f13424afd1-81.html#unique-entry-id-81Your blog on the coronavirus and how it is supporting the balance was very interesting! I am also from Hong Kong and have a similar question: have you ever had a word with cancer cells? If so, what were your findings? Moni

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2021-01-15T20:07:09-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e86fd82670f062a87976d589f2cfe0cb-80.html#unique-entry-id-80https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/e86fd82670f062a87976d589f2cfe0cb-80.html#unique-entry-id-80There are times when telepathic communication and dialog may be only one part of working out a problem you are having with groups of animals.

Ants
I've had challenges with two types of ants: the fire ants which are very painful and bite before you know they are close. The ones who are a big problem for all my flowers are the harvester or cutter ants. They will take down an entire flower bed in one night. They use the cuttings to grow fungus underground (which is their only food source). I've almost given up on growing daylilies and some others. How do we talk to them?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2020-12-29T18:47:18-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/786ac066a788599cf136a65d5ec38ebd-79.html#unique-entry-id-79https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/786ac066a788599cf136a65d5ec38ebd-79.html#unique-entry-id-79Improving your telepathic communication with animals enhances your relationship with all of life. It is a spiritual journey that requires the discipline of digging in to practice. By validating your own native ability to telepathically communicate with your fellow animal friends, you also honor the intelligence, willingness, and understanding of the animals you communicate with.

The animals of the Earth are ready and willing to communicate with you. Are you willing to take the steps you need to get to the same place with them?

In that light, here’s a question asked about communicating with groups of animals…

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2020-12-18T20:22:30-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/9d4efe461acc6e33a9ca72290b8f6a9f-78.html#unique-entry-id-78https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/9d4efe461acc6e33a9ca72290b8f6a9f-78.html#unique-entry-id-78Each animal is an individual. You can communicate with them about their lives, desires, thoughts, feelings, and about anything you don’t understand about them or any problem you are having with them.

Sometimes, people have challenges with groups of animals.That may require a different approach than communicating with only one individual.

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2020-12-05T21:24:07-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a21c98781fb034556aab070d6c5e2816-77.html#unique-entry-id-77https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a21c98781fb034556aab070d6c5e2816-77.html#unique-entry-id-77For a long time in western society, animals were regarded by many people as automatons with little or no ability to feel, think, decide, or be self aware.

Plants have been denigrated in the same way as non-feeling, unconscious objects.

It is now more extensively acknowledged that plants, too, are conscious, feeling, and thinking, like humans, but expressed uniquely in their different forms. It’s taking humans awhile to be aware of plant sentience and intelligence, just as it did with animals.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2020-11-29T17:57:49-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/5a915216a5b7a315850ce5828026d4da-76.html#unique-entry-id-76https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/5a915216a5b7a315850ce5828026d4da-76.html#unique-entry-id-76We just came home to find our cat had captured a chipmunk and was torturing her until I got hold of her and returned her outside. Can you please tell us why cats appear to want the pain of capturing and eating a fellow animal to linger? Why do they "play" with the creature? It looks so cruel to us. How does the cat consciousness explain this?

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2020-11-16T14:46:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a628ddac007b0626c3c971f93fa995d7-75.html#unique-entry-id-75https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/a628ddac007b0626c3c971f93fa995d7-75.html#unique-entry-id-75It seems possible, if not probable, that this virus form was created in a lab as part of "gain of function" research. If so, what can the viruses share about our human intervention in their own natural mutation process. How do they view our genetic lab work? I must admit I have less faith in humans than the viruses in this regard! Thanks in advance for sharing any communication that you might be able to receive! Dave Carman

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2020-11-16T14:05:36-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d1c9bb729a98e2514dd9f531585e0fff-74.html#unique-entry-id-74https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d1c9bb729a98e2514dd9f531585e0fff-74.html#unique-entry-id-74Have you ever had the feeling when you’ve just met someone who you instantly and deeply connect with that you’ve known them for eons and lived many lives together? That’s how I feel about my friends, the giant redwood trees, especially the elders.

]]>Penelope SmithMusic/Poetry2020-11-01T14:50:39-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/25ede713fedae2186b54db711aa1d0eb-73.html#unique-entry-id-73https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/25ede713fedae2186b54db711aa1d0eb-73.html#unique-entry-id-73Honoring my dog companion, Belinda’s passage into spirit November 1, 2018

I hear the breathing
I feel the pulsing
All around.

Some say no one is listening
To our prayers
Our desires
For peace, freedom, love

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2020-10-03T16:21:18-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/54c33984cc2dc0874f800467f33049e4-71.html#unique-entry-id-71https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/54c33984cc2dc0874f800467f33049e4-71.html#unique-entry-id-71With a raging forest fire about to overtake my home on Inverness Ridge next to Point Reyes National Seashore on the California coast north of San Francisco, I cried as I drove down our steep mountain road.

It was just before the winter rainy season began. Back then, they didn’t call it fire season. Now, as the climate gets hotter and drier, what is called fire season in California is considerably extended.

The following account of the fire experience is an edited version of the article I wrote for January 1996 Species Link Journal.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2020-09-24T19:49:45-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/7710cafeee2c8e21a30a06ed6c581f4e-70.html#unique-entry-id-70https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/7710cafeee2c8e21a30a06ed6c581f4e-70.html#unique-entry-id-70Readers asked me about the stranding of about 500 pilot whales that happened a few days ago on the Tasmanian coast. One person asked if the whales could be guided back to the sea and if they are beaching on purpose?

I connected with the whales and asked the oversoul/pilot whale leader about the cause of the stranding.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2020-09-18T16:34:40-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/20a52d1bb108d6ea8aad647884d91dba-69.html#unique-entry-id-69https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/20a52d1bb108d6ea8aad647884d91dba-69.html#unique-entry-id-69My name is Mohana, and I'm from India. I've been an avid reader of your blog for years now.

I recently read an article about how killer whales/orcas have been carrying out what seem to be planned attacks on boats for the last few months.

I'm curious to know about why they're doing this. Your articles about whales and dolphins being wisdom bearers only makes me all the more curious. Why are these gentle giants attacking now? I do understand that there's only so long they will take what we as a species put them through without fighting back. But, why now? What changed?

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2020-08-17T19:32:49-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/06aa6fd714320e8d3fca538ea0527f41-68.html#unique-entry-id-68https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/06aa6fd714320e8d3fca538ea0527f41-68.html#unique-entry-id-68The Real Wild Documentary about the work of South African animal communicator, Anna Breytenbach, is exquisitely produced to demonstrate the power and foundation of animal communication. Anna has found, as I have in my lifetime of work in the field, that people transform and emotionally heal when they connect and rediscover how to communicate with animals. She dedicates her work to awakening the power of animal communication in all humans to heal the Nature separation humanity is suffering that negatively affects our whole world.

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2020-07-28T15:04:46-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4bac3e767748c5fb78f1093b2e4ea5c9-67.html#unique-entry-id-67https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/4bac3e767748c5fb78f1093b2e4ea5c9-67.html#unique-entry-id-67I live in tropical Southwest Florida and we are inundated with mosquitoes, locusts , love bugs, no-see-ums, and flies, I’m trying to honor all living beings, but I also want to kill these pests to protect my horses and myself from bites. I’m having a difficult time reconciling this conflict and hope you can help me learn how to honor and live with these animals, I’m also having trouble understanding how they can be sentient beings with souls.

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2020-07-09T22:07:46-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ec83da82a5d05a6a2c06029069b0bbb8-66.html#unique-entry-id-66https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/ec83da82a5d05a6a2c06029069b0bbb8-66.html#unique-entry-id-66In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are reading a lot about what is happening re the virus. I found this article, “Why the World Needs Viruses to Function,” very enlightening.

It also struck me how these viewpoints coming from scientific research matched what viruses communicated to me about their function on Earth, especially their role in creating balance, recycling, maintaining the health of organisms, and the evolution of species.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2020-07-06T21:17:19-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b95a65cce6a326cb3d3a4cdc679a6e6e-65.html#unique-entry-id-65https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/b95a65cce6a326cb3d3a4cdc679a6e6e-65.html#unique-entry-id-65I am hoping you would address how to follow your program for someone who does not have an animal helper/partner.

I am about halfway through your book, Animal Talk, and it has struck me that my current situation is my biggest stumbling block. Due to life events since the 2008 financial crash, I no longer have animal companions. The condo complex I live in in San Diego County, California, borders a golf course. I am blessed to have a unit that overlooks the course and the local wildlife here is quite diverse: hummingbirds on up to red-tailed hawks, ducks and egrets, rabbits, lizards, even the occasional coyote.

While I have birds nest on my deck, none of the wildlife takes time to commune with me, not even the spiders who show up inside and on my deck. Nesting obviously is seasonal and I’m going to assume the parents are a bit too distracted with the nest to be proper candidates, regardless of their close proximity at those times that my presence doesn’t cause them to abandon the nest. While San Diego does have the zoo and safari park, Birch aquarium, and the various local Humane Society facilities, I’m not sure those would be useful resources.

So, again, I would appreciate your input on how I might best move forward in applying your recommended steps given a lack of actual live-in and/or eligible/agreeable/receptive participants.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2020-06-02T20:02:55-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d83a467134055a607b08623d43e2cf7c-64.html#unique-entry-id-64https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/d83a467134055a607b08623d43e2cf7c-64.html#unique-entry-id-64In this guest blog, professional animal communicator, Teresa Wagner shares her well-written, thorough coverage of what an effective animal consultation is about and how a client can get the most out of it.



]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2020-05-25T18:48:18-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/789726b2cbbaeeb524a7c9f0d804d774-63.html#unique-entry-id-63https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/789726b2cbbaeeb524a7c9f0d804d774-63.html#unique-entry-id-63It’s high snake season here in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Recently, for the first time on the same day, I saw a king snake and then a gopher snake in my garden. Both are non-venomous. King snakes attack and eat rattlesnakes and gopher snakes compete with rattlesnakes for food and territory, so they are considered signs that you’re not likely to have rattlesnakes around.

The next day, I went out just before sunset to check what was happening with unusually loud noises from a vehicle nearby. When I stepped outside on the back porch, another sound near the cat enclosure diverted my attention. About 10 feet away, curled up in striking position, was a 2.5 foot-long Western diamondback rattlesnake completely focused on one of my cats, Lila, who was sitting in the cat enclosure looking at the rattlesnake.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2020-04-12T15:57:14-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6ee9947bf4950f57b35f9fe07bfdeb40-62.html#unique-entry-id-62https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/6ee9947bf4950f57b35f9fe07bfdeb40-62.html#unique-entry-id-62I just read your blog on viruses. It sounds good but I ask why so many deaths? Why so much pain and panic in health systems and patients and their families? The suffering ones, for example the doctors and nurses, are not personally responsible, that they should be purged. I got that viruses need to do what they are doing now to balance the planet and life. All countries seem to be seeing this as a war against the viruses, who are life as we are life. Is there any way we can work with them? I am blessed to be living on a 20 hectare reforestation project so can be outside immersed in nature every day. Can I do more to help? How can we use our vision and our attitudes to help work together and learn from the experience with the viruses for the good of life?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2020-03-24T11:02:36-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0a7f63d42c4e04940a3c11bf81613a10-61.html#unique-entry-id-61https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/0a7f63d42c4e04940a3c11bf81613a10-61.html#unique-entry-id-61I have been asked if animals are aware of world events that concern humans. People often assume that animals are only concerned with what’s around them related to their interests.

Animals are unique individuals with their own life journeys and purposes to fulfill. They range widely in spiritual awareness and orientation to helping others, just as humans do.

Domestic animals often have purposes to assist the people they live with or meet. Wild or domestic animals can have purposes that benefit not only themselves and their own species, but also humans and all life on Earth. The benefits of animals’ work can be amplified for humans who are conscious of their own energetic connection with animals.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2020-03-12T12:26:07-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/1c4bbe1088013ce0250e90701532529d-60.html#unique-entry-id-60https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/1c4bbe1088013ce0250e90701532529d-60.html#unique-entry-id-60A concerned animal lover sent me an article published in the September/October 2001 issue of The Animal's Agenda (a magazine published by "The Animal Rights Network") entitled "Hear Spot Talk — Are Animal Communicators Psychics or Shams?" by Elizabeth Hess. While the author exerted genuine efforts to explore the field of animal communication, her general tone in this lengthy article came across as cynical to mocking.

The title of the article seemed strange, juxtaposing “psychic" and "sham." Usually people who are suspicious of spiritual realities assume psychic and sham to be inseparable. I wondered if she was going to elucidate the difference between a true psychic and a phony. In relaying different practitioners' approaches, she appeared to cast doubt on all of them.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2020-02-13T21:58:49-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/coyote-trickster-power.html#unique-entry-id-59https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/coyote-trickster-power.html#unique-entry-id-59Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary is a very special place. Over the years, I have communicated with many individuals of various species and taught retreats there.

On a visit in September 2019, I took part in a film highlighting the mission of Earthfire. Part of the film, an interview with Earthfire executive director, Susan Eirich, featured the work I did that day with three recently rescued coyotes with traumatic backgrounds and serious challenges. It was very moving and enlightening to work with them. I describe it all in this podcast.


In line with this theme, I received a communication from Coyote (chief or Oversoul) years ago. I was thrilled to find it again and share it with you here.

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2020-01-30T16:02:25-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/are-viruses-sentient-beings.html#unique-entry-id-58https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/are-viruses-sentient-beings.html#unique-entry-id-58Coming from Hong Kong, people are in such deep fear of the coronavirus (coupled with anger over the irresponsible actions of the government) that the vibrant city has kind of spiraled into a nightmare. Would you be willing (I’m not sure if viruses count as animals though I believe they have a spirit too) to communicate with the coronavirus and let us know what it wants us to know?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2020-01-17T11:49:34-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/australia-spirit-of-the-land-speaks.html#unique-entry-id-57https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/australia-spirit-of-the-land-speaks.html#unique-entry-id-57I am really struggling with what is happening to our magnificent country, our wildlife and environment. What do you think the message is with all the heartbreak and devastation that is happening with the Australian bush fires? Your feedback is greatly appreciated as my heart breaks to witness this. Bianca Parkyn

When I scanned over the burned Australian land and wondered what species or spirit of nature would come forth to answer this question, a presence began to speak, identifying as The Spirit of the Land:

]]>Penelope SmithMusic/Poetry2020-01-06T15:18:20-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/chants-for-the-journey-home.html#unique-entry-id-56https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/chants-for-the-journey-home.html#unique-entry-id-56Today on Epiphany (January 6) I have reached the destination of a long light-filled journey! I am so excited to have a special audio project ready to roll. It’s been a long time coming.

During my life, I have written many poems and songs, starting with a poem about the sunset when I was 8 years old. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, chants began to come through that I sang with my students in animal communication courses and shamanic retreats. They were instrumental in deepening students’ opening to telepathic connection with animals and all of life, helping to ease through the hard parts, smooth rough edges, and expand realizations. The lyrics and melodies arose out of dolphin/whale journeys, shamanic ceremonies, contemplative moments, and during dreams.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-12-16T19:01:05-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/tribute-to-the-great-owls.html#unique-entry-id-55https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/tribute-to-the-great-owls.html#unique-entry-id-55As Pepito and I were taking our afternoon walk on December 11, 2019, I was startled to see a Great Horned Owl sitting fluffed up on the gravel pile at one end of the driveway. He didn't move away though he watched us when we walked by about 20 feet from him to go into the yard.

When I asked the owl how he felt, I sensed his stomach aching and got the image of him eating a rat that had ingested poison. Later when Pepito barked at the front of the house and cactus wrens were scolding loudly, I went out to see the owl next to the house. He flew low to a nearby bush. I sent him healing energy and hoped he’d recover.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2019-11-28T20:40:00-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/day-to-day-communication-with-animals.html#unique-entry-id-54https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/day-to-day-communication-with-animals.html#unique-entry-id-54People have often asked me about what my daily life communication with animals is like. I’ll answer some of their varied questions.

Do you talk aloud to your animal family or is it always silent telepathic communication?

How do you connect with your animal family members to get their attention and start communicating?

How do they show they understand?

Are you constantly talking or listening to your animal family?

Do you always understand your animals? What happens if you make mistakes interpreting your animal friends’ communications or miss things they are communicating?

Do other animals around you or from long distances contact you and communicate with you often? Is it like a cacophony of communication coming from all directions or can you turn it off or decide when and who to hear?

Does your telepathic communication help relationships between animal family members?

What do animals think about all the time?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2019-10-24T18:47:28-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/factory-farming-and-our-dogs-and-cats.html#unique-entry-id-53https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/factory-farming-and-our-dogs-and-cats.html#unique-entry-id-53Val Nuttall posed a question: You recommend feeding a raw diet to a dog or cat. What about the animals who have endured suffering and abuse in factory farming or is it just cats, dogs, horses you are concerned with?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-09-21T16:17:54-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/slo-mo-desert-tortoise.html#unique-entry-id-52https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/slo-mo-desert-tortoise.html#unique-entry-id-52The June ad said there were over 100 Sonoran Desert tortoises needing homes. I had heard about the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s tortoise adoption program before but I was not eager to fulfill the extensive and meticulous requirements for a desert tortoise habitat and care. https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife/nongamemanagement/tortoise/captivecare/ This summer, it did not seem so daunting, and I really wanted to give a non-releasable desert tortoise a home and welcome a member of this ancient species to our family.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-08-25T21:01:21-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/harrowing-ordeal-grizzly-mom-and-cub.html#unique-entry-id-51https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/harrowing-ordeal-grizzly-mom-and-cub.html#unique-entry-id-51On May 28, 2019, Deidre Bainbridge asked me to help a grizzly bear in danger. She wrote:
This five-year-old first-time mom grizzly bear, #863, (called Felicia) is using the highway to protect her remaining cub from a boar bear who may have killed one of her cubs on May 14. She is a "roadside" bear; one reason is to be closer to humans where boar bears are less likely to approach.
 
I am praying you will communicate with her that the she can receive the same protection from other bears 50-100 feet away from the road because the roadway itself is dangerous for her cub and her own safety.

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2019-08-12T19:39:23-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/learning-from-trees.html#unique-entry-id-50https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/learning-from-trees.html#unique-entry-id-50People often approach animals, plants, mountains, rivers… as things that are separate and foreign to them. They may focus only on their human perspective or their personal thoughts and emotions about other life forms.

Communicating with other species, honoring their intelligence and spiritual nature, can bring us broader perspectives on life, more understanding, and peace. Here’s an example of how communicating with a tree became a spiritually enriching experience. It started with a Facebook message to me.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-07-28T17:26:16-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/baby-quail-who-was-left-behind.html#unique-entry-id-49https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/baby-quail-who-was-left-behind.html#unique-entry-id-49Because of using my ability to communicate with animals, I am now godmother to a baby quail. Here’s how it happened.

A quail decided to lay her eggs in my large cherry tomato planter where the climbing vines provide shelter and moisture. I had also erected a sun shade tent around the plant supports to shield the tomatoes from being scorched by our searing summer desert sun. A perfect place to have a nest.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-07-14T20:07:06-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/why-the-rattlesnake-returned.html#unique-entry-id-48https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/why-the-rattlesnake-returned.html#unique-entry-id-48It is such a blessing to grow and learn and feel the assistance of other species when you communicate with and understand them. Communication experiences can start on one level of understanding and then deepen and broaden to intimately include other areas of life that at first you didn’t see.

In my last post, I talked about snakes I had recently come across on my land, especially the encounter I had helping a rattlesnake who was caught in deer fence netting. Well, that was not to be my only encounter with this rattlesnake.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-06-30T16:56:56-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/living-and-communicating-with-wild-animals.html#unique-entry-id-47https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/living-and-communicating-with-wild-animals.html#unique-entry-id-47People have asked me what it’s like to be able to communicate with wild animals in day-to-day living. What do they tell me? Do they understand my thoughts? Am I bombarded with messages? How does communicating with them influence how we live together?

Telepathic communication with wild animals happens in a very natural, organic flow that enhances my interaction with these wonderful beings. Let me give you a few very recent examples.

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2019-06-17T19:07:51-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/weeds.html#unique-entry-id-46https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/weeds.html#unique-entry-id-46I just read your blog about plants. I cherish plants especially for their flowers, amazing colors and scents. I am currently volunteering in Greece and France and some farm posts want me to "garden" but they mean usually tearing out the “weeds." I don't believe in “weeds.” Every plant has total value in my eyes. I don't want to rip anything out. Robert Shapiro's magnificent book, Plant Souls Speak, is the most loving and aware book on plants I've ever seen. But what would you say to people who believe in weeds and the desire to be rid of them?

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2019-05-30T19:07:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/plants-love.html#unique-entry-id-45https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/plants-love.html#unique-entry-id-45In 1973, the best selling book, The Secret Life of Plants, by Peter Tompkins and Christoper Bird showed how plants feel and respond to human stimuli and care, exploring plants’ ability to communicate with humans, their responses to music, and other aspects of their awareness and creative power. Like telepathic communication with animals, publicized in the 70s by several pioneer animal communicators including myself, much of this evidence was rejected by the mainstream scientific community and those who looked at animals and plants as non-sentient.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-05-20T05:06:05-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/your-healing-impact-on-the-earth.html#unique-entry-id-44https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/your-healing-impact-on-the-earth.html#unique-entry-id-44At this time, we are sharply aware of how human impacts on the Earth are creating vast ecological changes that are damaging many species including our own. We are also witnessing many ways humans are using their creative powers to contribute to the flow of health, life, and healing on the Earth for all species.

We can be instrumental as a healing force in unique ways. I was reminded of this when I read an interview I did with Dawn Baumann Brunke years ago.

I was asked to help with a problem concerning jaguars coming too close to a village in Costa Rica.

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2019-04-19T20:07:47-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/insect-evolutionary-perspective.html#unique-entry-id-43https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/insect-evolutionary-perspective.html#unique-entry-id-43Animal communicator, Sandra Mendelson, wrote to me:

Given your wonderful piece from your conversation with viruses, I thought I'd ask your opinion on this:

Today when I was asking the mosquitoes to stop biting me (and inviting them to share more insights that they wanted me to pass along to humans), I got this:

"You humans have misconstrued our intent since time began….

]]>Penelope SmithPlant & Nature Spirit Communication2019-03-17T04:36:09-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/leprechauns-and-nature-spirits.html#unique-entry-id-42https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/leprechauns-and-nature-spirits.html#unique-entry-id-42Throughout history, people have had awareness and relationships with unseen spirits in parallel realms to the physical world. There is a vast reality existing beyond the five senses in the many dimensions of the spiritual realm.

Those who have a close association with nature may perceive spirits around the plants or other natural areas. They have been called fairies, nature spirits, devas, sprites, or other hidden folk.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Welfare2019-02-07T16:10:07-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/caring-about-animals-and-hurting.html#unique-entry-id-41https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/caring-about-animals-and-hurting.html#unique-entry-id-41I often hear from people who love animals and wonder what to do when they witness animal suffering on social media or experience it in their lives. They may get very upset and be disturbed or depressed for a long time. How can sensitive people who care about animals protect themselves from cruelty that feels overwhelming?

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2019-01-11T16:35:33-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/the-cat-who-would-be-free.html#unique-entry-id-40https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/the-cat-who-would-be-free.html#unique-entry-id-40When two-month-old orange tabby, Jerry, and his sister, Lila were in a carrier on their way home in November 2010, they meowed loudly and reached through the wire door. Lila remonstrated, “You can’t keep us in here. Who do you think you are to put us in this cage?” Explaining why calmed them a little. Release inside their new home delighted them.

Freedom was to be Jerry’s theme song.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2018-12-31T13:37:56-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-i-was-guided-to-my-new-dog.html#unique-entry-id-39https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-i-was-guided-to-my-new-dog.html#unique-entry-id-39He came presaged by visions, signs, synchronicities, and messages like many animal companions before him. Guidance mysterious yet clear, laced with wondering and excitement.

A few years ago, while my beloved dog Belinda was still alive, I started to have visions of my next dog - a small dog with fringes of hair on ears, tail, and down the sides like a Papillon or Pomeranian mix.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2018-12-17T14:31:14-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-communicator-prerequisites.html#unique-entry-id-38https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-communicator-prerequisites.html#unique-entry-id-38Continuing on the theme of what it takes to be an animal communicator from my last blog, here are wise words by Dawn Hayman www.springfarmcares.org, a very experienced animal communicator who trained with me. She submitted this article at my request when I was editor of Species Link journal in 1994, and I also included it in my Interspecies Counselor Course.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2018-12-11T16:26:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/what-it-takes-to-be-an-animal-communicator.html#unique-entry-id-37https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/what-it-takes-to-be-an-animal-communicator.html#unique-entry-id-37You might think that the most important prerequisite for being an animal communicator is loving animals and wanting to help them. That is a natural, deeply felt characteristic of all animal communicators I know. Even more important is a willingness and ability to communicate well with people to help them understand their animal friends and increase harmony among humans and other species.

People who feel they love animals but loath people do not do well in this field. Vital to being a good communicator or counselor is love and compassion for all species and individuals you work with, including humans, and (perhaps, most of all) yourself.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Welfare2018-11-29T20:13:12-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/riding-horses.html#unique-entry-id-36https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/riding-horses.html#unique-entry-id-36After I wrote the September 21 blog on How Horses Feel About Humans, a reader wrote to me about horses having pain when they are ridden with a reference to a book and articles by Maksida Vogt, which scientifically shows how this is so.

Before I talk about these studies, I’d like to give you my perspective from communicating with numerous horses and falling in love with these sensitive, beautiful beings.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2018-11-21T11:15:58-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/death-of-my-ultimate-dog.html#unique-entry-id-35https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/death-of-my-ultimate-dog.html#unique-entry-id-35I am eternally grateful for the magical life with my ultimate dog, Belinda. She had the best traits of all my former dog companions and added some qualities and quirks of her own, as we individuals all must do. It is fitting that she departed this life on November 1st - All Saint’s Day.


]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2018-10-30T20:23:28-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/my-cats-departure.html#unique-entry-id-34https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/my-cats-departure.html#unique-entry-id-34As my sweet, wise canine partner, Belinda and I wend our way through the end stages of her life on Earth, I am reminded of the departure of our dearest friend, Sherman, orange tabby wonder cat. Sherman and Belinda loved each other deeply and curled up together often. With similar size, coloring, and loving energy, I called them the Butterscotch Twins.

Here is the wondrous story of Master Sherman’s last steps on Earth…

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-10-11T19:17:09-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/heart-and-soul-telepathic-communication.html#unique-entry-id-33https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/heart-and-soul-telepathic-communication.html#unique-entry-id-33Telepathic communication with animals is an affair of the heart and soul. It involves getting in touch with the deep core of your being so that you can meet another in the same place. From that strong foundation, you can truly listen to animals’ deepest desires, feelings, and thoughts and understand who they are and what they are communicating to you.

You may have buried and thought you lost your native ability to telepathically communicate with animals.


]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2018-09-21T15:51:04-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-horses-feel-about-humans.html#unique-entry-id-32https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-horses-feel-about-humans.html#unique-entry-id-32Horses enter the spotlight in our animal communication focus as a reader sent me this thoughtful question:

I am 17-year-old girl from Poland and I have recently been fascinated by Animal Communication. I also love horses and have ridden for 10 years. But now it is time in my life when I am wondering if maybe I should end riding, as it might be too cruel (even "natural horsemanship").

I wonder, what do horses think about being ridden and generally about humans? Do at least some of them like their work? And what would they like us to do to make them happier? Has any horse told you anything on this matter? I would be very grateful if you could write about it. It is really important for me...

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2018-09-14T18:37:48-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/communication-with-bees.html#unique-entry-id-31https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/communication-with-bees.html#unique-entry-id-31Sometimes people think that when you can communicate with animals telepathically, they will be willing to do what you want. No, communication doesn’t equate to obedience. Animals are individuals with their own agendas in life. We can communicate with each other and still have different perceptions, different priorities, and different ideas about how things should be.

Good communication and understanding of another’s viewpoint usually opens the way to understanding and cooperation. However, sometimes other animals are not willing to listen, understand, or cooperate, especially wild animals who often don’t have a desire to get close to or please humans like domesticated companion animals do.

I’ll give you a few examples of when communicating with wild critters did not go so smoothly and what I learned.

]]>Penelope SmithInsects & Other Small Creatures2018-09-05T20:59:24-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/viruses-reveal-their-mission.html#unique-entry-id-30https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/viruses-reveal-their-mission.html#unique-entry-id-30When we think of interspecies telepathic communication, most of us focus on the animals that we see around us. Perhaps we include the trees and other plants in our vision of sentient life and even the minerals and other forces like wind, water, fire, and earth. Many of us do not consider some of the smaller creatures in the web of life —viruses and similar microorganisms—as partners in our choice for telepathic dialogue.

People often think of viruses with fear as negative things that need to be destroyed before they decimate our bodies. But viruses are living beings with whom you can communicate. They are alive and conscious like other animals, including you and me.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2018-08-16T19:26:09-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/getting-to-the-root-of-problems.html#unique-entry-id-29https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/getting-to-the-root-of-problems.html#unique-entry-id-29Successful animal communication consultations are characterized by positive attitude and behavior changes in animals and their people about situations that have been brought up to handle. Getting to the root of problems through telepathic communication and understanding of the animal’s and human’s viewpoints rather than just giving advice based on past experience or others’ conclusions about animal behavior is the key. Here are a few examples.

A woman called me for help because her cat Misha repeatedly peed on the bed. This started after the woman broke up with her boyfriend and moved from a house where the cat could go outdoors and had more human company to a high rise apartment where cats were not even allowed. The apartment was sterile and the cat spent most of the day alone.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-08-05T18:32:46-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-communication-eavesdropping.html#unique-entry-id-28https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-communication-eavesdropping.html#unique-entry-id-28A woman had a troupe of Amazon parrots who loved to perform for people. One evening she was holding her timid parrot, Kodiak, while watching a television program on dolphins, complete with recordings of them talking. All her parrots perked up and seemed to be listening, especially Kodiak. He became quite relaxed while the dolphins talked and seemed different when she put him back in his cage.

When she held him again while watching television, he calmly walked over to her left arm and sat on it for several minutes. She was astonished because he had been terrified of and unable to perch on her left arm. She felt that what the dolphins had said affected all the birds in the room. How she wished she could have understood what it was!

I’ve often been asked if we can eavesdrop on animal conversations to hear what they are communicating to each other. This certainly would have been useful to the woman with the Amazon parrots.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2018-07-26T19:03:54-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animals-confound-expectations.html#unique-entry-id-27https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animals-confound-expectations.html#unique-entry-id-27Throughout my long history as an animal communicator, I found that many humans have had low expectations about animal intelligence and awareness. They often have no idea of the depth of animals’ thoughts and feelings that we find when we truly communicate with other species.

Almost five decades of animal communication education, highlighting who animals really are and what they can understand and communicate has influenced the depth of an array of media presentations and the evolution of scientific research about animals over the years. However, I still find that many people hold preconceptions that undervalue what animals reveal about themselves with direct telepathic communication.

I was catapulted to review this subject when I got this feedback from my recent blog in which a bull came forward to give his wise views on the subject of human cruelty.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-07-12T21:14:25-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/mother-earth-channel.html#unique-entry-id-26https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/mother-earth-channel.html#unique-entry-id-26Here are a few approaches that you can easily apply in daily life practice to deepen your telepathic awareness and connection with animals. I used these techniques to great effect in the animal communication courses I taught.

The Mother Earth Channel
After having facilitated a number of whale journeys, one day the whales directly helped me improve my teaching of animal communication. They advised me to get people to connect with animals through their feet on the ground. By feeling their feet firmly on the ground, people could then feel through Mother Earth the common link they had to all the other animals on Earth.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2018-07-02T18:23:36-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-animals-feel-about-human-cruelty.html#unique-entry-id-25https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-animals-feel-about-human-cruelty.html#unique-entry-id-25A reader asks: I wonder how animals see suffering and that cruelty and lack of empathy typical to a large part of humankind. It is often unbearable to think of so many animals suffering all around the world.

When I began to connect with animals to answer this question, a large black bull standing in a grassy field came into my awareness and offered himself as a representative for animalkind.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Awareness2018-06-21T18:41:34-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animals-answer-about-god.html#unique-entry-id-24https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animals-answer-about-god.html#unique-entry-id-24I was asked by a reader, “Do animals believe in God from birth and do they communicate with Him?”

The One in All
When I first started to contemplate getting fresh answers to this question from animals, Ziggy, my black cat, was nearby. Asking him about his awareness of God, he answered with this spacious concept,

“The One in All. All That Is. All That We Are. I Am That. We Are That.”

I could feel his awareness of an open space of living essence in everything. To him, God is that which unites us all and is in us all that makes us alive and conscious. His awareness of God was not restricted to a personality or gender or an individual. He was aware of a nurturing force, an open-ended or infinite consciousness that permeated us and IS us all.

To find out what other animals communicated:


]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2018-06-12T14:38:00-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-acceptance-of-death.html#unique-entry-id-23https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-acceptance-of-death.html#unique-entry-id-23Conscious of their spiritual nature and living fully and happily in their current animal form, animals generally do not fear a natural death. Nearing their physical demise, they often leave their bodies gradually, relatively painlessly, and peacefully if they are allowed to do so. Dying can get painful and prolonged if they feel obligated to stay in their worn-out bodies for the sake of people they love who do not want to let them go.

A woman called me for a phone consultation about her aging standard poodle. He had refused to eat for a week after a series of veterinary treatments for various ailments. She realized that her dog was dying and that she could probably do no more for him. She was gravely concerned that for several months, her formerly affectionate canine companion avoided her and seemed morose.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-06-06T20:21:34-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-awareness-and-interspecies-communication.html#unique-entry-id-22https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-awareness-and-interspecies-communication.html#unique-entry-id-22This consultation I had years ago with a person and her horse and donkey is a great example of how aware animals are. It also shows how even when animals are being stubborn or rebellious, they can be reasoned with to cooperatively solve problems.

Handling a Depressed Horse
A horse called Chaca suffered so severely from a foot disease that she was not able to be ridden. When she became very depressed, stood in one place in her pasture, and did not want to eat, her person, Elaine, phoned me for help.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Death & Reincarnation2018-05-24T21:16:39-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-death-guilt-and-grieving.html#unique-entry-id-21https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-death-guilt-and-grieving.html#unique-entry-id-21When an animal dies, we often experience feelings of guilt and remorse that compound our grief yet again. Could I have done more for my beloved companion? Why was I so preoccupied with my work that I failed to notice his illness? Did the treatment plan I chose to follow make him suffer more? These questions and many others may haunt us for weeks, months, or possibly years.

Our rational minds may say that it isn’t logical to grieve so much for a beloved animal friend. However, every bond we share with other beings creates a kind of energetic blending of our auras or energy fields. When a friend leaves, there is a tearing of this bond, which can hurt just as if our bodies were ripped open. We have to heal that energetic wound before it becomes easy to connect with our friends solely as spirits.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Ecological Messages2018-05-09T13:02:30-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-messages-about-ecological-crisis.html#unique-entry-id-20https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-messages-about-ecological-crisis.html#unique-entry-id-20I received this inspiring letter from Ruggero Grottanelli. His words reminded me of a message I received from the dolphins on the first dolphin journey I facilitated in the Bahamas in 1997. Both messages are very relevant to our relationship with other species and Mother Earth.

Ruggero’s Inspiration
Now, planet Earth is facing a deep environmental crisis. Many people make efforts to avoid the worst, dedicating their lives to saving a small piece of the wonderful Nature of this planet.

Don't despair: every action in the right direction helps and gives breath space to Nature to recover. In this moment the whole planet Earth is working to overcome this crisis, every living being is leading with all its energy towards the restoration of the natural state of every place, all they need is for us to stop waiting on the rest of the planet. Even if it seems that things constantly get worse, even if it looks like an uphill battle, the power of recovery of our planet is much greater than we can imagine, and every effort helps.
]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-04-28T16:29:27-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-animals-interpret-thoughts-and-feelings.html#unique-entry-id-19https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-animals-interpret-thoughts-and-feelings.html#unique-entry-id-19Animals are capable of receiving telepathic communication of thoughts, intentions, and feelings of humans and other animals. However, like individual humans, they may interpret or understand others’ communication in unique ways and respond according to their familiarity with human or other animals’ ways of being. As with individual humans, they see how the thoughts and feelings of others make sense and can be interpreted according to their own nature and current way of understanding life.

Humans puzzle about why their animal friends behave as they do. Instead of getting the animals’ points of view and how they understand things, people often imagine that animals should understand and react just as they do in the same situations. This leads to confusion, misunderstanding, and problems with animal friends.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Welfare2018-04-16T18:57:06-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-suffering-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.html#unique-entry-id-18https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animal-suffering-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.html#unique-entry-id-18I frequently get e-mails from people lamenting the suffering of animals, how horrible it is and how terrible they feel about it. Some people even conclude that efforts such as education to raise human awareness are fruitless when there continues to be so much abuse of animals in the world.

One person sent me a notice by an animal rescue organization about an animal who was rehabilitated after abuse and adopted into a loving home and commented:

Another life saved, but I continue to be concerned that we are continuing to put bandages on problems when we do not prosecute those cases of abuse and neglect. Please let me know your procedure to address the root of these human cases of animal abuse.


]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-04-12T15:55:24-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/authentic-telepathic-communication.html#unique-entry-id-16https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/authentic-telepathic-communication.html#unique-entry-id-16Nancy Windheart writes this guest feature, "Is it Authentic Telepathic Communication or My Own Thoughts." Nancy trained with me to be an animal communicator and is an excellent teacher. Her article is a well-written summary of my teaching and Nancy's experience on the subject.

One of the most common questions that I receive about interspecies telepathic communication is:

How can I tell the difference between my own thoughts and direct communication from an animal?

One of the biggest challenges that we as humans face in reclaiming our natural ability to communicate telepathically is differentiating authentic telepathic communication (especially when it comes from non-human beings) from the thoughts, ideas, and projections of our human intellectual, thinking minds.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-04-05T16:11:08-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-oneness.html#unique-entry-id-15https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-oneness.html#unique-entry-id-15In my article on the stages of growth people experience on their journey of opening to telepathic communication with animals, I mention the concept of oneness, a universal connection with all life.

Spiritual connection and oneness brings the possibility of full telepathic communication according to our focus and awareness. An expansive, rich, tender, full feeling of understanding can accompany realization of this state of telepathic connection. We can learn how to feel the joy and wonder of it with our animal friends and all other forms of life, if we take the time to re-discover what is already within us as a native ability.

Becoming an Animal
I emphasize becoming one with an animal as the most complete way to step out of our own thoughts, preconceived notions, beliefs, and world view and truly experience what an animal communicates through the animal’s senses, feelings, and thoughts. It is a direct and immediate telepathic experience of communication.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-03-15T15:08:19-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animals-taking-on-our-issues.html#unique-entry-id-14https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/animals-taking-on-our-issues.html#unique-entry-id-14Some people believe that animals take over illnesses from their humans. A shamanic practitioner I know tells a client that his dog is sick because of his suppressed emotions and the person feels very guilty after that.

I believe that animals too could get sick because they have their own karma. At least I cannot be sure if it is true so I find it not right to say this to a client. What is your experience with this ?


We Are Connected
Often there is a correlation between what humans are learning in life and what animals experience or respond to in us. No matter our species, we are each other’s helpers and mirrors, giving us a chance to see, often in an exaggerated way, what needs to be illuminated next and which may be clouded due to our habitual patterns or suppression.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-03-03T15:10:14-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/when-emotions-interfere-with-telepathic-communication.html#unique-entry-id-12https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/when-emotions-interfere-with-telepathic-communication.html#unique-entry-id-12To receive true telepathic communication from animals requires that you are undistracted by your thoughts and emotions, calm, centered, and ready to connect and listen. You need to be able to receive incoming thoughts and feelings that an animal is communicating, unmixed with your own thoughts so you don’t misinterpret what you receive.

An Emotional Storm
A recent e-mail exchange highlights the effects of an emotional storm and how the person handled it to help handle a situation with her cat.

]]>Penelope SmithFinding Lost Animals2018-02-24T19:07:52-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-4.html#unique-entry-id-10https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-4.html#unique-entry-id-10How Do Animal Communicators Find Lost Animals?
What skills are required? Are missing animals always lost or do they leave for other reasons?

We’ll answer these questions in this section of Brenda Fullick’s interview of animal communicators and other research.

Tracking
Working with lost animals is hard. But it can also be thrilling.


]]>Penelope SmithFinding Lost Animals2018-02-16T16:18:19-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-3.html#unique-entry-id-9https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-3.html#unique-entry-id-9How to Know if Lost Animals are Dead or Alive
It’s something that most people who are searching for their lost animal friends want to know, especially as time goes by and their precious ones have not returned home. Animal communicators hear clients plead “I just want to know if my animal is dead or alive. Please just tell me if she’s dead or alive. I want closure. ”

How do animal communicators tell if a missing animal is dead or alive?


]]>Penelope SmithFinding Lost Animals2018-02-10T17:51:05-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-2.html#unique-entry-id-8https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-2.html#unique-entry-id-8Brenda Fullick interviewed animal communicators about finding lost animals for an article in Species Link - The Journal of Interspecies Telepathic Communication, spring 2004, when I was editor and publisher. This edited section of the article is full of helpful tips for people whose animals are lost.

Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
The most difficult, daunting call a communicator may ever face — the desperate plea to find a missing animal — can also be the most fascinating.

Barb Monroe’s Doberman, Chance, and his German shorthaired pal, Pepper, escaped from their yard one day for some sightseeing in Toledo, Ohio. When Pepper came home from their romp, the friendly, outgoing Chance wasn’t with her.

]]>Penelope SmithFinding Lost Animals2018-02-06T14:02:47-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-1.html#unique-entry-id-7https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/finding-lost-animals-part-1.html#unique-entry-id-7The Challenge
People often consult with animal communicators to help find lost animal companions.

It can be one of the most difficult things animal communicators are asked to do and frustrating for clients urgently wanting their animal back home. Both the lost animals and their people are under stress. Animals often cannot communicate well where they are due to confusion and disconnection from familiar places.

In their desperation to find their animal friends, people often consult with a number of animal communicators and receive different answers. This letter (edited for length and clarity) illustrates a common bewilderment.


]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2018-01-28T05:00:54-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-communication-with-animals-what-it-can-do.html#unique-entry-id-6https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/telepathic-communication-with-animals-what-it-can-do.html#unique-entry-id-6Communicating with animals telepathically is a very useful skill to re-discover and develop. It doesn’t solve all problems we may have with our animal companions, but it sure does help a lot. It’s a handy tool to have as a natural part of daily life.

People who are new to animal communication often assume that if you can telepathically communicate with animals, they will be obedient and do what you want. That’s like saying if you and I can communicate and understand each other, you will do what I want. It doesn’t work that way with human animals, and it doesn’t work that way with other animals, either.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication Adventures2018-01-22T09:03:57-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-i-found-my-canine-partner.html#unique-entry-id-5https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/how-i-found-my-canine-partner.html#unique-entry-id-5I’ve had many adventures in communicating with animals throughout my life. Some of the most exciting adventures have been when I am moved to adopt a new animal companion. These times are filled with compelling spiritual guidance, evolving communication with the new animal friends even before they arrive, mystical signs, revelation of mutual purpose and support, and pure delight.

I am celebrating the arrival on January 22, 2004 of my dear Belinda - one of the most special canine companions of my life.

]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-01-15T19:28:02-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/we-can-know-what-animals-are-feeling.html#unique-entry-id-4https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/we-can-know-what-animals-are-feeling.html#unique-entry-id-4You’ve probably heard the phrase, “We’ll never really know” uttered with a shrug of the shoulders, eyebrows raised, and palms open to the sky when something mysterious happens and no one can readily explain the cause of it.

A very common attitude of people unaware of their telepathic connection is that humans will never be able to understand what animals think and feel. People relate amazing stories about animals and then add the caveat, “We will never know what the animals were really thinking or what really happened to them?” This rests on a supposition that animals are something very separate from and incomprehensible to humans and we cannot communicate with them.


]]>Penelope SmithAnimal Communication: What How Why2018-01-01T20:34:46-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/real-animal-communication.html#unique-entry-id-3https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/real-animal-communication.html#unique-entry-id-3In teaching telepathic communication with animals, I emphasized that students develop fullness and depth in communicating. This involved learning to use all their telepathic sensing ability to get what an animal feels right down to the smell, taste, touch, vision, and hearing of it.

The most direct way of communicating with animals that is the least likely to mix in human thinking involves becoming or uniting with animals spiritually. A mutually agreed upon connection like this enables you to feel what animals feel and receive their thoughts simultaneously in a rich, nuanced way.

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2017-12-15T13:58:56-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/pet-psychic-or-animal-communicator.html#unique-entry-id-1https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/pet-psychic-or-animal-communicator.html#unique-entry-id-1Every individual of every species is born with the ability to communicate telepathically by direct feeling and thought transfer. I have emphasized in my teaching and publications that people who have lost their ability to communicate with animals in the course of their human socialization can rediscover it again.

Consciously communicating telepathically with animals my whole life, I never denied or abandoned this natural intuitive connection. In 1971, I did my first counseling session with an animal using telepathic communication.

As I continued to do animal consultations to help people with problems they had with their animal companions, I called myself an animal communicator. That was a natural choice. What I did involved exchanging communication in the form of thoughts, images, feelings, sensations, emotions, intentions… with animals, domestic or wild.

Why not Pet Psychic?
Why don’t I use the popularized term “Pet Psychic” to describe what I do?

]]>Penelope SmithBeing an Animal Communicator2017-12-08T15:00:00-07:00https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/why-i-became-an-animal-communicator.html#unique-entry-id-0https://www.animaltalk.net/The-Animal-Communicator-Blog/files/why-i-became-an-animal-communicator.html#unique-entry-id-0I’ve been asked, encouraged, and cajoled to do a blog for years. Now, at last, in this phase of my life, I have the time. And the new website program and redesigned website that I launched in October 2017 handily supports a blog.

I look forward to sharing many animal communication experiences and insights I’ve had for the seven decades I’ve lived so far this life. I’ll start with a foundation subject, “Why I Became an Animal Communicator.” So, here we go…

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