Human Energy and Animals

[Angelique]

I am interested in the subject of human energy and animals. This article recently posted to CNN discusses elephants living in a sanctuary and how the sanctuary came about. The sanctuary owners do not allow visitors because of how the human energy effects the elephants.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/09/10...tml#cnnSTCText

[Valerie]

I am not completely comfortable with the 'energy' stuff in NDT, and Neil mentioned on his blog about Kevin's 'meta-physical' beliefs about dogs which makes my eye twitch a bit. But there are definitely interactions with people and animals that don't seem to have another explanation. Maybe there is an emotion quark not yet discovered that causes these effects.

[Angelique]

Valerie, A defining moment for me with the energy/emotion stuff and our dogs as the ultimate retrievers/mirrors was when one of our dogs died suddenly. My husband and I were grief stricken on our couch, and the other two dogs shocked the heck out of us when one dog brought us the dead dog's food dish (something the dead dog did daily, but not the live dog) and the other dog put his head in my husband's lap, something he had never done before, but the deceased dog did regularly. I mentioned this to my vet (a very clinical guy) and asked if he heard of these kinds of things happening to others, and without hesitation he said "all the time."

My husband definitely gets the eye twitches on the subject, but has no explanation for our dogs' behavior, if he hadn't been part of it I don't think he would have believed it.

[Valerie]

Angelique, Wow, that is powerful. Does your husband do any NDT training with your dogs? Just curious. And I will keep moving forward, try to be open, and we'll see what happens, eye twitches and all.

[Lee Charles Kelley]

Originally Posted by Valerie

Angelique, Wow, that is powerful. Does your husband do any NDT training with your dogs? Just curious. And I will keep moving forward, try to be open, and we'll see what happens, eye twitches and all.

A client had to go out of town (to Washington for the inauguration), and asked, last minute, if I could board her sheepdog, Mopsy. I said yes, picked Mopsy up, took a cab uptown, and got out on 75th Street, to pick up another dog, Samba, a male Jack-a-poo, who was staying with me that day for day care. Without even looking at me, Mopsy pulled me directly to Samba's building, even though she'd never been there before.

"This is weird," I thought, but quickly realized it could have just been a fluke.

But once the three of us got to my block, and neared my brownstone, this new dog pulled me directly to the front stoop, and started up the stairs, even though she had never been there before either. And Samba was no help to her. He was distracted by a smell and gave no indications of going toward my building.

How the heck did Mopsy know where both Samba and I lived? (By the way, it was snowing that day and Mopsy spent zero time either with her nose to the ground or lifted up to catch the air currents.)

I suggest you read Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home by Rupert Sheldrake (Oxford University biologist) for more examples of this kind of phenomena.

LCK

[Angelique]

Valerie, No, my husband thinks I'm a fruitloop, although he can't deny the results of NDT. Only playing with the dogs OUTSIDE has been a big step for him, he still slides on it, but we've made huge headway with that.

[Angelique]

Lee, Sounds intriguing thanks for the suggestion.

[Henry]

Lee,
That reminds me of an experiment I did with Henry back in March of this year. I had seen a t.v. program about how dogs can sense when their owners are on their way home long before they get there. So this is what I did:
I keep a web cam on Henry while I’m at work, just so I can check in on him and make sure he isn’t getting into anything he shouldn’t or barking and bothering my apartment building neighbors. He pretty much sleeps all day on the sofa—occasionally he chews on a bully stick.

As soon as I got off of the subway in Brooklyn, NY, about four blocks away from my apartment building, I called my parents. They would get on their computer, in Virginia, and watch. As I started walking towards my apartment, Henry would lift his head, very alert, and stare at the door. At two blocks away, he would stand up on the sofa, and at one block away, he was off the sofa, waiting at the door. This happened every time. We did this everyday for about a week. We even varied the time I would get home—once was even three hours earlier than normal, and he still knew I was coming home four blocks away.

[cliff]

I was also cynical about the "mystic" aspect of the energy thing— until the first time it happened. Lenny jumped up on me so hard he almost knocked me over. After chewing on my ear, licking my face (something he never did previously and continues to do more and more), and mouthing my arm he went immediately to sleep. It's happened a few more times since, and, call it what you will, something is happening to the dog that is leading to positive changes in his behavior. This is a dog who has gone from spending hours in his crate so that i could get some work done to a pup who has the run of the house— whether we're here or away— and is right now napping quietly on the couch.

In a nutshell re pushing/training: Keep at it. Eventually, it will "sink in".

[Angelique]

Well shoot, my dogs always seem barely awake when I walk through the door. I love the webcam experiment, has anyone else tried this?