by Shirley Scott – Animal communicator/psychic
What wonderful movies us humans come up with to humanize animals. All the cartoons that show animal friends talking and thinking like humans, acting like humans and reasoning like humans. They’re fun to watch but they aren’t how the real animal world thinks or functions.
Many countries around the world have domesticated animals and with this domestication, we forget where animals came from or what’s been bred into them for thousands of years. We forget they have their own DNA that makes up much of what they are and how they act and react to situations.
We also forget there are humans in the outback of Australia, in the jungles of Africa, South America, who are living in the most basic animal survival mode with these animals. These humans don’t see animals as human at all and as a matter of fact these humans understand animals and the way they think probably better than most animal communicators.
These people are in survival because they don’t have refrigerators to keep their food in. They don’t have phones for emergencies. They don’t have money, a computer, running water, electricity, or any of the basic things many of us take for granted. But what they do have is the understanding of animals and how they think.
If animals thought like humans, they’d be human!
In my line of work I see too many animal communicators humanizing animals. When I was at psychic school, we learned to back away from our thoughts and judgments and to let the messages come in as they did. We didn’t put our own life experiences on them.
Every animal communicator experiences and receives their messages in a different way. Then they have to translate those messages into human terms because animals don’t think like we do.
So in my experience, an animal won’t tell me their teeth hurt because they don’t know what teeth are. But they’ll show me a picture of their mouth and I know to look into their teeth.
Animals live in a different world than we do. They need to know their surroundings are safe and balanced. Animals live in a world of survival first. Wild animals are in survival 98% of the time while domesticated animals are less but still live by their DNA.
Humans have survival DNA too but because we are mostly “tame” humans, at least the ones reading this, rather than a person living in the jungles or outback, we don’t live in survival as much. If we had our survival skills more on the surface, many of us wouldn’t get mugged or robbed. We could sense danger better than we do now or at least listen to our inner voice more when we feel something isn’t right.
Studies are showing DNA can determine the range of behaviors in each species. Animal behaviorists are starting to study animals outside of their natural environment. They help us to understand if and how bred-in and learned behavior can be modified through training and changes in a pet’s diet or environment.
Modifying a pet’s behavior can be a challenging task because of their DNA or bred-in instincts. Wild animals have certain instincts and no matter if they are born in the wild or in captivity, some of these innate instincts will surface. Although pet owners have the responsibility for teaching their pets, they often do not have any formal training in how to do this. Too many humans get animals for the wrong reason with no basic idea or information on what the animal needs to survival and be healthy.
Unfortunately, this is why many animals end up in shelters or are abused because owners misunderstand the cause of their pet’s behavior. I always tell people – you have to think like an animal to understand an animal. And because animals sense and feel things to a greater degree than humans, we can hardly understand it all.
Their sense of smell is about 2000 times greater than ours, their hearing is at least 100 times greater and their instinctive survival skills are with them since birth. We should learn to watch and listen to animals more to help us learn the world they live in. With these evolved senses, they can smell something that may scare them or put them in a survival mode and we haven’t a clue what that is.
Understanding why pets sometimes “misbehave” requires careful understanding of their bred in traits and their ability to learn.
The disposition of a particular pet and the circumstances surrounding their behavior are also factors. We need to look at where they were born and how they were raised to understand many personalities.
Even though one group or species may have the same DNA, each individual animal is different. This includes looking to see if they had enough food, water and how they were socialized. Were they beaten up in the litter or did their mother die when they were too young to learn everything from her.
It’s just like all humans have the same basic DNA, but with some changes for skin color, eye color, etc. It works the same way in the animal world. All zebras will have the same basic DNA but every zebra has a different striped pattern on its’ body to mark its individualism.
We have to look at the species and understand that every species have their own traits and instincts, but realizing survival is the first thing on an animals mind.
The animal world is a world of day-to-day survival that many of us in the “tame” world can’t understand and probably don’t want to see or face, but it’s real. If we can just acknowledge that it exists, we can start to understand many animals’ behaviors, instincts, actions and reactions and honor them instead of condemning them.
So please remember this saying, “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. But if it walks like a human and thinks like a human, it’s a human.”
Animals don’t know what world peace is, they just want peace in their world.
Shirley Scott – Animal communicator/psychic
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