Animal Insight with Animal Communicator Nancy Kaiser

The Gift of Understanding

Jolly Man’s euthanasia was a first for us. After injecting the usual amount of drug for his size, he slowly collapsed. With tears flowing, I lovingly guided his head to the ground.

At this point, horses are unconscious and near death. Within moments, the heart stops and the deed is done, except with Jolly. His heart didn’t stop, and he was moving as though slowly running. I knew he was unconscious and felt no pain, but it was excruciating to watch.

While my husband ran for more solution, I sat flooded in tears with Jolly. In my heart, I knew my decision had been right but agonizing doubt filled me. This memory plagued me for years.

Years later, I was communicating with a client’s broodmare with serious medical issues. Often I’d feel torn between roles as the vet’s wife and the animal communicator. As the vet’s wife, we were all about saving lives. As the communicator, I soon learned that it’s not always about healing the physical.

While my husband was doing everything humanly possible to save this mare’s life, she was telling me she wanted to return to Spirit. I felt her increasing sadness, since her people weren’t listening to her wishes. My allegiance is always with the animal, so I told her if she wanted to transition then she had to create something that couldn’t be healed.

Late the next night, the phone rang. My husband announced that another seizure may have broken the mare’s shoulder. As we rushed to her, I thought about my recent advice. Her shoulder was broken, and she was euthanized immediately.

Secretly, I was happy for her, because I knew her desire to go Home. Astonishingly, the mare needed extra solution to stop her heart and free her soul. As I felt her soul release, I thanked her for the knowledge that I’d made the correct decision years earlier. I felt a burden lift from my heart that I’d been carrying since that sad day. Through this mare, the Universe provided me with the gift of understanding.

Expedition Paw Prints - traveling with dogs

by Dale E. Smith - excerpted from Paw Prints the Magazine

Expedition Paw Prints will be an attempt to show you what the best camping equipment is, mistakes not to make, the best campgrounds, the worst campgrounds. We will take you fly fishing, canoeing, kayaking, hiking, car camping and backpacking. You will be able to see first hand the trials and tribulations of having dogs as your only assistant in pitching a tent and camping out.

Expedition Paw Prints will be an ongoing adventure series featuring me (Dale) and one or two of our dogs traveling around the United States pitching our tent wherever we can. I say this will be an adventure because I have only taken Keegan camping once and Clyde, a 5 year old St. Bernard mix, has only camped in my fenced backyard. (I pitched a tent on father’s day 2009 so my 9 year old nephew Daniel could experience his first night staying in a tent).

Daniel and Keegan did very well and slept most of the night. Clyde on the other hand wasn’t sure why he was sleeping in a tent in the backyard. He kept me up most of the night wanting us to go in the house.

Before you embark on any adventure or trip with your pet, make sure you know where the closest veterinary office is to your campground (and if you don’t have a GPS, bring directions). Make sure your pets are up to date on all shots and have that information with you. It can come in handy.

POOP BAGS: DO NOT LEAVE THESE AT HOME. I love pets but I hate stepping in dog poop. Especially from a dog that isn’t mine. If you are too lazy to clean up after your pet, don’t go camping. Even if you are in a wilderness area and you think no one is around, clean it up. If you run out of poop bags, dig a “cat hole” and bury the dogs waste.

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Hindsight

After I discovered my animal communication and healing skills, I began thinking back to events of my past viewing them with “new eyes” to see what I’d missed. One of the most painful for me was the indecision surrounding putting down Jolly, who was nearing 28 years.

My new-found abilities changed my opinion of so many of my previous life experiences. The more animals I communicated with, the more I learned about life. The lessons that went unrealized from my past moved from the caverns of my memories to be seen in a new light.

After talking with an old horse that had been trying to tell his person that he’d been ready to go Home for a year, I was bathed in understanding. I now knew that Jolly had been doing the same thing. For those four difficult months, Jolly had been telling me he was ready to go Home. Thoughts that I’d interpreted as my own were telepathic communications from Jolly. Who knew?

So much of what happened towards the end of Jolly’s life would have been different had I known about my abilities at the time. I could have asked if he wanted his teeth worked on. I could have asked if he wanted to stay. While I felt bad about keeping him here for four months longer than he wanted, I do know that everything happens for a reason.

Finally receiving this lesson helped me release any residual guilt I may have been hanging onto over the painful dental procedure. While I had accepted that we’d done our best for him, I still deeply regretted his suffering. My new perspective allowed me to let go of all my self-imposed blame, guilt and regret.

There was one thing about his euthanasia that was confusing, but a client’s mare resolved that for me eventually. Interested?

Divine Guidance on Paws

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." - Henry Beston

And of those whom we draft into service - we owe a higher measure of respect, gratitude and appreciation.

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Consumed With Guilt

When I checked on Jolly later that evening, I felt his severe discomfort. I wouldn’t learn for another four years that I was an empathetic healer and truly was feeling his pain. Watching someone I loved in great pain and believing that I caused it was agonizing. I felt totally responsible and consumed with guilt.

We did everything we could to make Jolly more comfortable, but it took four days before he ate and drank normally. I chastised myself constantly during that time for allowing this to happen to my old friend. Jolly never treated me any differently and found comfort in the time I spent trying to sooth and console him (and me).

I kept trying to justify our decision to remove his tooth in an effort to assuage my guilt. We did what we thought was best for Jolly; what would allow him to stay longer. Eventually, I accepted that all one can do is make the best decision at the time with the information available, and we felt the dental procedures were in Jolly’s best interest.

Sadly, the painful dental work improved his chewing for only two weeks. It wasn’t fair that such a wonderful being suffered so much pain for so little benefit, but then, “Who said life is fair?” We tried to help, but failed. It was so disheartening.

Again, I struggled with what was best for Jolly. The hardest decision is that of euthanasia, especially if the animal isn’t sick. Jolly would graze for a while, but spent most of the day standing with lowered head having lost interest in life. This difficult decision plagued me for over four months.

One evening, the student was ready. A portrait of Jolly in his prime hung over our bed; a Christmas gift from my folks. I studied the painting that night comparing it’s handsome subject to the thin, sad horse in the pasture. I knew with certainty what to do. Several days later, we sent Jolly Man back to spirit. It would be four years until I was ready to learn more from him.

*Photo credit: Nancy Kaiser
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Never Lost

Thirty nine years ago Easter fell on April 4th as well. You’re thinking, “How does she remember this?” It was the day I rode my amateur jumper, Jolly Man, for the first time. He was six years old and I was twenty. Jolly became my partner for the last six years of my show career, and I couldn’t have asked for a better one. Little did I know that Easter Sunday that we’d be together for 22 years.

Jolly’s arrival followed a disastrous year with another horse, Salty, who proved to be dangerous and down-right evil. I’d always felt all horses would respond to love and kindness; apparently not. Twenty-plus years later, my animal communication and healing abilities could have helped Salty, but our timing was off.

Jolly was the complete opposite of Salty; willing, friendly and anxious to please. Almost forty years later, I realize the Universe brought Jolly Man into my life to restore the balance Salty had disturbed. Life is always about balance and harmony.

Jolly returned to spirit four years before I began communicating, and his death contained several lessons that weren’t realized until much later. I struggled with the decision to euthanize Jolly for over four months. He was losing weight despite eating well. One of the downsides to helping our horses live longer is that they out-live their teeth.

We asked another vet that specialized in geriatric dentistry to help us with Jolly’s tooth issues. His teeth were worn, which created inefficient chewing. One tooth needed to be removed, which was so excruciatingly painful that he wouldn’t drink for 4 days in spite of strong pain medications. We hydrated him with fluids by stomach tube until he began drinking again. I felt horrible and accepted the blame for causing my dear friend so much misery.

Every life experience is significant and contains lessons even if we don’t recognize them at the time. They’re never lost merely filed away for the proper timing. Jolly’s lessons were lost in the moment, but resurfaced when the student was ready.

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Oh, Those Coincidences!

A little over a month ago, a woman from California was attempting to order something from an online store called “Petsense,” but was brought to my column instead. Luckily, she knew it wasn’t a coincidence. After listening to a radio interview and reading a print interview on my Website, she contacted me.

Her family had two dogs that were once great friends, but after the arrival of her daughter’s first child that changed dramatically. Apparently, they’d tried everything to repair the rift without success. The dogs were kept separate creating an untenable situation for the family.

When she explained how she’d found me, I just smiled and agreed that it most definitely wasn’t a coincidence. The animals I’m equipped to help find me, as long as their people don’t stand in the Universe’s way. By following the clues, she found someone with the exact skills that her pets needed.

Her solution began with a communication session between herself, her daughter and the two dogs. With information I gained from our consult, I recommended Spiritual Response Therapy for both dogs and Spiritual Brain Repatterning for one of them.

After these two processes are completed, feedback is crucial. This family has been great with their updates including photos; first with the two walking on leashes in close proximity and then last week off-leash together for the first time in seven years. I was stunned at how long they’d dealt with this nerve-racking situation. It’s so gratifying to correct what seem like insurmountable problems for pets and their people.

Sometimes I get frustrated with the time consumed writing my columns and articles, which keeps me from working on my next book; the first in a series about my animal communication and healing experiences. I often wonder if anyone is reading my words, but I keep writing so the animals I’m meant to work with can find me. Are you following the Universe’s hints? No April Fool here….

*Photo: Poley and Ruby at play