Psychic Pets & Animals
By Craig Hamilton-Parker

Is your pet psychic? Biologist Rupert Sheldrake says that living things have morphogenic fields- invisible vibrations that surround and give shape to life forms, and affect their behaviour. This telepathic interconnection extends across the barriers between species and may even increase the intelligence of animals as a result of contact with their human masters and companions. Pets have often been known to mimic human behaviour and can sometimes display remarkably intelligent actions. For example they frequently learn to cope with the door fasteners of new refrigerators so that they can help themselves to food, within minutes of the refrigerator's installation.

Parapsychologists have argued that they telepathically receive this information from the thoughts or mood swings of their owners. The father of serious paranormal research, J B Rhine wrote 'The number of reported cases of animal ESP is large enough to suggest that animals can somehow be affected by circumstances they could not be aware of by any sensory sign and which one would suppose they could hardly understand in human terms.'

In other words animals may be psychic.

As I write this webpage I feel relaxed- the family dog is snoring under my desk. Experiments have shown that just as animals respond to us, our behaviour can be influenced by them. For example, tests with patients suffering from high blood pressure revealed that both systolic and diastolic blood pressure will reduce when a pet is present. Research in America showed that pet owning cardiac patients lived longer that other patients with similar heart conditions.

Many pet owners believe that an ESP link exists between themselves and their pets. Barbara Woodhouse, the famous TV animal-trainer was convinced that telepathy took place between humans and pets. "I have always been able to understand and read their thoughts. They come on my brain just as if they were speaking my language. It is what we send out to them that matters. It goes out in waves. I feel the waves of love coming back."

She didn't realise that her telepathic gifts were unusual "I thought everyone could do it," she said. "I was quite surprised when I found people did not hear what their dogs were thinking."

She also believed that animals survived death. "If people say dogs have no souls," she said at a literary luncheon, "I reply, 'Then you have no soul yourself.'