Marshall,  does this mean that animals  might respond to the placebo effect?  
And
all this time we thought ....   Oh well.  So much for that theory.  Guess they 
are
as
susceptible as we humans are.

Erwin


Marshall Dudley wrote:

> Yesterday I bought a book by Art Myers called "Communicating with Animals".  
> It
> is surprising how many horses have problems that the vet cannot find.  A sore
> back can make them throw the rider.  There are many examples in the book of
> horses about to be put down when a communication is brought in to talk to the
> horse (or dog or cat) and they are told that such and such is the problem, and
> when that is fixed by a chiropractor, antibiotics, or whatever, the animal
> returns to normal.
>
> There is one interesting part where a dog becomes covered with tumors.  The 
> vet
> cannot find the reason and gives the dog only a few weeks to live.  A
> communcator is brought in, and the dog sends her a movie of when it was young,
> the other two littermates were bathed, got a bunch of attention, and groomed,
> then the lady which owned them took off the other two dogs without so much as 
> a
> goodby to the one that had the problem.  At that point the dog felt unloved 
> and
> rejected, and it played heavily on it's mental state.  The owner said "Oh my
> gosh, that is when I was taking them to the dog show at the fair to sell!"  
> And
> she hugged the dog and told him that she kept him because he was her favorite
> and loved him very much.  The tumors were gone within 2 weeks.
>
> Interesting reading.  Shows how mental attitude can affect health, even in
> animals.
>
> There is also the story of a girl who owned a pony and was being abused.  When
> she was abused she would go out and visit her pony because it made her feel
> better.  The pony was getting sick and about to die when a communicator was
> brought in and the pony said that the little girl was coming in with lots of
> negative energy and the pony was taking it from her because it loved her, but 
> it
> could not dispell the energy fast enough and it was killing it.  The
> communicator told the girl what was happening and asked her to go write some
> poetry or do some painting or something after abuse to mutate the energy into 
> a
> creative energy before visiting the pony, and after she did the pony got well.
>
> A previous message said that they don't care what is causing a problem, they
> just want to cure it.  Well the example above shows that it can be very
> important to find the root cause, as a cure may just be a bandaid.  Eating 
> more
> may fix a person who is underweight, but if the real cause is a tapeworm, than
> that is not the REAL cure.
>
> Marshall
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