This message is from: Janet McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just have to throw in my recent experience regarding an 'animal communicator'. This fall I sold a very nice light riding horse that had NEVER been sick a day in his 15 years, so that I could purchase a harness for my new team (that includes a fjord :-) Out of 3 horses, I had decided to sell this particular horse soley because he was indeed a very nice and fit riding horse and therefore worth sufficient $$$$ to pay for the harness, and because I will be doing very little riding due to my creaky joints. After a month I got a call from the new owner who proceded to tell me that things had gone badly, that the horse collicked when she first brought him home (he went from mediocre grass hay at my place to alfalfa and grain at hers) that he got beat up by one of her horses, and now was coming done with some sinus thing (she admitted to having a prior case of strangles on the farm). She wanted me to take him back. She could tell I was heart broke over the whole thing and began to play on my emotions over the course of a number of phone calls and emails. Of course I could not take him back and risk bringing in a horrid disease to my remaining horses, but wanted to get him the equine company that I know he badly wanted. (The new owner refused to put him in with her horses after the big fight). I believed that 99% of the problems were due to the stress of being isolated. I offered her his pasture mates, a llama and an older horse we had here, which she refused. Anyway... during all of this she brings in an animal communicator. Every time I told her I was looking for a way to bring him back home (i.e. contemplating isolating him at the rented farm), she told me that the horse picked up, looked better and that the A.C. told her he was happy because he was going home. Then every time I told her that I was very worried about the sinus problem and just could not risk bringing home the nasty bug he had, I got a report about how depressed the horse was, and the AC said he had no will to live because he was not coming home. After a couple of rounds of this I played their game. I purposely told her I would try to find a way to bring him home just to hear the report... guess what, the AC said he picked up and was happy, then I told her (deliberately just to hear what the message was), that I could not take him back.... guess what... depressed horse. Now if this animal was really as telepathic as she tried to tell me he was, his emotions would have been unchanged because he would have seen through all of that to my real thoughts, right???? Finally I pinned the buyer to the wall and asked her what *really* was the problem... at which she admited that she had not planned on keeping a horse in a separate paddock arrangement (which really was not as necessary as she thought it was), and that owning another horse was more work than she had planned on! yeah, animal communicator alias says-what-you-want-to-hear-for-$$. In the end, I visited the horse, determined that now that he was past the big feed change, that he was well sheltered, well fed, and actually, very well bonded to his new owner, and finally, after I cut through the bs, she bought him a pony. Maybe there are AC's out there that are real, but watch out for the frauds!
Janet
