Looking for… an Animal in a Haystack
Finding Lost Pets
Finding lost animals can be one of the most difficult jobs that animal communicators are asked to do. Many times the animals, and their people, are frightened and distraught, and cannot communicate clearly. Although it can be very challenging work, I find it very rewarding when I am able to help a lost pet become reunited with their person. I always caution people who choose to use telepathy to locate their pet, because the information received from the animal is often too general and vague to allow the person to locate their animal. Animals don’t read, so they do not look up at street signs. The animals are describing what they are seeing from their perspective, which is quite different from the human outlook. Just being able to pick up information about the animal’s surroundings does not mean that the person will be able to pinpoint that location and find their pet.
In most successful cases, the animals are close to home and have not been gone for more than a few days. In one recent case, a woman called me about her missing cat. That cat immediately showed me that she was with three other cats. The cat also said that there was an older woman in a white house that had a back deck where she would put food out for the cats. The woman exclaimed, “That’s next door!” - and she went next door and happily retrieved her cat.
Another client, Beth, called me about her missing cat Howard. He showed me that he was inside of a garage. The inside of one garage looks a lot like any other garage, but fortunately he was also able to show me a bright blue car in the driveway, and also that he hadn’t crossed a street, so he was within a block of his home. Beth called back to report, “You could not have missed that blue car!” She knocked on the door of the house, only to be told by the residing gentleman that he had a dog and there was no way Beth’s cat was in his garage. She insisted, he opened the door and out ran Howard!
A couple of months later, Beth called me again, this time regarding her missing cat Shadow, who had been gone for three days. She was very worried as it was so unlike Shadow to roam and Beth was afraid something terrible had happened. When I contacted Shadow, he told me he had hurt his left front leg and was hiding. I sensed that he was very close to home, but I did not receive a detailed description of his hiding place. He said that he wanted to wait until it felt safer to go home, and I sensed he did not want to be found. I told him to please go home as Beth was very worried. Three days later, Beth called again, still no Shadow. This time she was certain he was gone. I asked Shadow about his location and again received little information, just that his leg hurt and he would return home when the time was right. A couple days after the second reading, Shadow returned home, limping on his left front leg.
Even though we can communicate with animals, they still have free will and often choose to follow their own instincts and desires instead of our directives. Despite my pleading on Beth’s behalf, Shadow chose not to reveal his whereabouts and returned home when he felt ready to do so.
Often it seems that a telepathic connection encourages a missing animal to return home. Such was the case with a cat named Shelby in North Pole, Alaska. When my client Cindy called and told me Shelby had been missing for a week, I contacted her to try and help. Shelby showed me a big dog that looked like a wolf, and told me that she had been chased and was still frightened. Cindy told me that it probably was a wolf as they are common to the area. Shelby did not seem lost, and described a house with a front porch that she was hiding under, too frightened to return home. Cindy said she would look for Shelby, and I urged Shelby to carefully return home. After being gone for a week, Shelby returned that evening.
Sometimes animals, especially cats, can be too frightened to return home, and can quickly adopt a feral, distrusting attitude. When Anita called me, her indoor cat Ernie had been missing five days. Ernie told me that he was hiding in a crawl space very close to the apartment, he could see the building and a concrete stairway. Shy by nature, Ernie was badly frightened and said he was unable to return home. Seven days after the reading, a little girl saw Ernie in the crawl space. Her mother called Anita, who had to crawl way back in there to retrieve her pet. Ernie was so frightened that he scratched her badly. Unfortunately, twelve days had passed; by the time Ernie was found he was so weak that despite being rushed to the veterinarian, he died a few hours later. It can be very hard for people to accept that sometimes lost cats become so frightened, they will not go home, or even respond to their person calling to them.
Sometimes working with lost animals is frustrating because you never do find out what happened to the animal. One time I tried to help Nancy find her missing dog Sam. Sam showed me a yellow house with a chain link fence around it, and a big black dog in the yard. Not long afterward, Nancy received a phone call; someone had spotted Sam. Upon arriving at the address, she was surprised to see that the caller lived in a yellow house, with a chain link fence and a big black dog! Unfortunately Sam had already left the area, and Nancy never did locate her dog.
I often wonder why some people find their animals and some do not. Why are some animals able to travel across the country to their intended destinations, and some appear lost in their own neighborhoods? Maybe as we increase our ability to communicate with animals, these questions and more will be answered. In the meantime, please put collars and tags on all of your furry friends, and hopefully you will never have to call an animal communicator about a lost companion.
