Triggers in Animals and the 4th of July

It was a quiet 4^th of July until it was time to let the dogs outside for their final potty break at 10:00 pm. 

They had been quiet all night- not really caring about the fireworks and booms around us. We had a movie on, and as seniors, Milli and her brother Floyd, have limited hearing capacity so they didn’t seem to mind the fireworks, this year.  That wasn’t always the case, as Floyd used to be quite disturbed with the booms and sounds.

I let Milli outside to relieve herself before she went to bed. I had to wake her up from a sound sleep.  She waddled to the door, as a sleepy 15 year young dog would do. She relieved herself and sneezed several times. Both she and I could smell the air that was filled with a stench. There was no wind so the smell from all the fireworks was lingering in the air. It smelled very heavy with the humidity in the air. The smell reminded me of gunpowder.

Milli had experienced this smell before but tonight was different. You see, triggers happen for the strangest reasons, at the strangest times. What happened next was something I had never seen Milli do, in the 15 years we have been together.

She began to eat things off the floor, as though she was in a daze. This is very odd for her. She had her nose to the ground and couldn’t really focus on anything or anyone.

Believe me, I tried to get her attention as she ate the stems off of the low hanging fern.

She walked around the house in a very obsessive way looking for things to eat.

Nose to the ground, searching, hunting, obsessively on a task of “must eat.”  I tried to hold her, consoling her yet nothing was getting through to her until I tapped into her mind to see what she was experiencing.

This is one of the many benefits of animal communication – we can hear their thoughts and feel their feelings.

As I did this, I witnessed images of WWII and the American Civil War, where there where battlefields with smoke lingering in the air. Milli was reliving a few lifetimes of war times all at this moment!  No wonder she was acting so unlike herself.  It’s as though she had taken a step back in time and was in the past – unaware of her present day life.

She was not acting like herself.  Her energy did not look like herself.  She had a different way about her, acting as though she was starving and desperate.

Speaking her name out loud did nothing.

This I could understand, having gone back to witness some of my previous lifetimes during meditations. Those feelings of knowing who you are and not knowing who you are simultaneously.

Knowing this, I knew how to console her.

I reminded her who I was to her in this lifetime- her human mom.

I told her what year it was – 2024.

I reminded her of her name, Milli, and that she was my dog.

The obsession of wanting to eat plants and keep her nose down, slowly disappeared, she settled as I sent her some Reiki energy from across the room, because she didn’t want to be held.

She ended up going back to sleep after lots of treats, reassurances and hugs.

I’m relieved I was able to discern what was happening to her as the trigger was highly activated within her, thanks to animal communication.

I’ve been able to see and feel the trigger in other animals as well.

There was Sarah, a creamy, curly haired rescue mix who was sweet and loving with her family.  She loved going places with them yet had panic attacks in the car. 

During our virtual animal communication session, I asked Sarah about the car rides.  It wasn’t any particular place she was going that was upsetting to her, but the memory of something scary, is what she told me.

I looked back at a few of her car ride experiences and saw what she saw…she was terrified because she had an injury.  The image she showed me was of her being rushed to a hospital with a head injury.  She felt lightheaded and nauseous during the past incident. 

With her communicating those feelings to me, I realized that she was re-living the trauma of the head wound, every time she went in the car.  We talked with her humans about this.

They confirmed that she had a head trauma as a puppy and had to be rushed to the hospital for treatment. 

Sarah was associating car rides with that painful memory that happened early on in her life.

Knowing this, I decided to help her with Reiki, during our virtual reading. 

By receiving Reiki, Sarah was able to release some of the initial fear and anxiety with car rides.   She loved the Reiki!

Her loving humans noticed that she was less anxious on car rides after my talk and Reiki treatment with Sarah!

Progress!

Diving into understanding what an animal is feeling or reliving (whether it’s a past lifetime or trauma in this lifetime) is one of the many ways that animal communication helps animals. 

It also helps we humans to understand some of their odd behaviors so we can remedy the situation to make them more comfortable.