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January 16, 2026 16 mins

George Noory and animal communicator Nikki Cuthbertson discuss her work getting messages from pets both living and deceased, her advice for strengthening the compassionate bonds between humans and animals, and if animals are able to provide warnings before natural disasters.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back George Nori along with our animal communicator
Nicki Cutherson. Websites are all linked up at Coast tocoastam
dot com Nikki. In terms of a breed, what animal
is a better communicator? A dog or a cat?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Cats are highly opinionated. I had cats just kind of
come through and dogs come through so sweet. They're just
so incredibly devoted to their people. I don't think that
one is more communicative than the other. Just like us.
They have personalities and some of them are a little

(00:45):
bit more quiet than others. But a lot of times
I get very opinionated kitties.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Is the information that comes from the animal different from
the animal that's alive, as opposed to what the animal
wants to pass on to you that has been and deceased.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's a good question. The animals on the other side
are disembodied, and so they are pure energy and pure love,
pure light, and with the personality, it's lodged within the
body as part of the story and part of the
filter that comes through. There's still touches of that with

(01:22):
the animals that have crossed over, and especially their love
is what never dies in terms of their relationship with us.
But they're a lot more expansive on the other side.
So yeah, that's the main difference is that there's still
the frame of reference of the physical body and the
physical orientation with the ones that are here with us.

(01:47):
But it's helpful to have that piece of information. Say, like,
if I'm doing a lost animal, then if they're still eating,
if they're still drinking, or if they're hungry, that to me,
because it's a physical craving, tells me that they're still
in their body and that they haven't crossed over. So
I use all that information for the different types of

(02:11):
communication that I do.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
When you first started communicating with an animal, did you think,
is this really happening?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I thought I lost my mind. It was during a
time of big, big change in my life, and so
I just thought that was part of the big change
in that I was not handling all the change in
my life and that I was having a big stress reaction.
But the truth about it is is that I, with
hindsight can say this now that I wasn't really losing

(02:42):
my mind, but I was losing the conditions of my mind,
and I'm really grateful for it, because I've had a
really beautiful life connecting with all sorts of different animals.
You mentioned it in my bio. I have a strong
leaning towards working with very high performance sports horses, and
that's just such a big love of mine. These incredible

(03:05):
athletes and all of it has just been a really
big blessing to be able to be with them as
sentient and be with them in terms of their perspective
and their point of view, which a lot of times
doesn't really enter the equation. But the people that have
me work for them are people who are very interested

(03:27):
in going deeper into the relationship with their animals, and
so I feel really grateful for that.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
What animal seems to be the better communicator?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't know if it's an animal or if it's
a personality for some reason, and I don't think it's
the animal. I think it's my own orientation. I have
such a strong affinity for horses, and so the minute
I even see a picture of a horse, or I
see a horse in a pastor or in a in

(04:00):
a barn, it's automatic. I just start translating what I feel.
Your whole story. And this is for humans too. Is
in your energy field, and so a lot of your
listeners will have that too. They will just be able
to pick up when they see somebody, doesn't matter if
it's in the grocery store or if it's a horse,

(04:22):
a dog, a cat, a bird, you will feel if
this being has a tendency towards melancholy or is always
the life of the party, that there's something that your
body just completely through your subtle body, even not just
your physical body, but your subtle body recognizes about the

(04:42):
way somebody is. So I don't know that it's necessarily
a type of animal, but I have a very strong
affinity for horses, and I love, love, love doing readings
on dogs and cats fantastic.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
It really is what is energy, ma? What does that
mean to you?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Nikki?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, Energy medicine is something I started really exploring when
I was a critical care nurse. I specialized in open
heart and trauma, and I think it was during that
those times of really pique stress that really takes you
to a moment that transcends time and transcends words, and

(05:24):
when I was really interested in understanding the nature of healing.
I started really exploring thoughts and how you've been thinking
and feeling about situations and the stories you've been telling
yourself for a long time, and how that tends to
lodge in the body as disease and energy medicine takes

(05:47):
into account yourself as an energy being, and so it
takes into account the chakras and the center energy channel.
It takes into account breath, so it takes into account
your soul, your spirit, yourself, all the layers of your being,
your body, your mind, your spirit, your mental body, your

(06:09):
emotional layers, so all the layers. It's very holistic, and
the animals tend to stay in that place of reading
energy as truth. And I think for myself, when I
was younger, there was a lot of discord between and
a lot of illusion between words not lining up with

(06:31):
what my being felt was true, and so that created
a lot of confusion for me, and I just learned
to go with what I felt because the words never
lined up. And when I stayed in that place, it's
the way I created emotional safety. So I didn't realize
that at the time, but that is an aspect of

(06:52):
energy medicine. It's a way of being able to scan
and read your world as energy, and there's a strong
similarity between learning how to do that when I was
little and how the animals just naturally are.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
What are the general messages from an animal to you.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I do so many different kinds of communications, and I'm
really blessed in that way. I do a lot of
end of life reading, so I tend to be involved
a lot with end of life decision making and if
an animal is willing or not willing to go through
chemo or have an amputation, if they feel that they

(07:39):
have the internal reserves to continue going, do they feel ready.
I've heard several times people say that animals aren't afraid
of dying, and a lot of them are, and so
I do a lot of preparing animals for a transition
so that they can have closure. I have done a

(08:04):
lot of work on preparing animals to receive new animal
family members, new puppies, new kittens in the family, or
a new human baby in the family. I've worked with
a lot of different rehoming aspects with animals and animal care.
I have done a lot of work with horses. A

(08:26):
lot of my clients trained for the World Cup or
for the Olympics, and so there's a lot that I
do with uh does the bitfit? What do they think
about the tack? How do they feel about this new
new tack on their body? How do they feel about
the rider is Where is the rider's balance and how

(08:46):
is that throwing them off? What do they need more
of from the rider in terms of contact or balance?
Where are they actually really afraid to go higher on
the jumps and their maybe their body can do it,
but emotionally they're not ready. And so there's just so
many ways that I work as an animal communicators is

(09:09):
very very diverse.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
If you were in an animal shelter Nikki prior to
an animal being adopted, let's say they're up for used
in Asia or something, what kind of feelings would you
pick up in there?

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I think it would be really hard for me. I
would pick up on a lot of the anxiety, a
lot of the grief that they feel, a lot of
the confusion. I've done a lot of readings where animals
are given up mainly because they're senior and they're getting
a new puppy. I've done a lot of readings where
they're there because maybe the person is moving and maybe

(09:48):
they're moving overseas, or maybe they're moving into a place
that they don't accept animals into the house, and so
the animals are there, they're very scared and I would
say terrified. And then just like there's different people and
different personality types, some animals have a huge capacity to

(10:10):
adapt and be able to weather those kinds of storms,
and it's all very very different, very individual. But there's
a lot for me when I go into places like that,
I get very overwhelmed with the emotions.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Generally, what does an animal want you.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
To know.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Their perspective, how it's how they think and how they feel.
Because a lot of times, as much as we are
about the animal and we love them so very much,
sometimes even with the training, it has to do with
pleasing the human, you know, and then we call them

(10:57):
a good boy or a good girl. That I love
when animals have an aspect of their I would call
their wildness where they're maybe still really connected to a
primal sense of themselves and they love for you to
get to know that part of them where maybe they

(11:19):
just they have their quirks and they have their places
that are not so tamable, and maybe they're a little stubborn,
but I would also say, to answer your question in
a very truthful way, they want us to know how
much we are loved and how much they love us
a lot of the time. So I'm saying all of that,

(11:41):
and then again I'm telling you kind of my orientation
about what I'm curious about. But they do want us
to know their perspective, and they love when we invite
that in as part of the conversation and take that
in instead of making the assumption that we have their
guardianship or stewardship for their life and so we have

(12:03):
the full authorities. They love when we tap into their perspective.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Can they warn us about certain things? I mean, did
you pick up when COVID hit in twenty nineteen, did
you get a lot of animals coming to you saying,
so there's going to be a problem here.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
No, I didn't pick up on that during that time,
But I have picked up on a lot of animals
that will pick up on earthquakes, and that's sort of
a thing ahead of time, and for myself too, if
there's any frequently, if there's earthquakes within a twenty to
forty mile radius of our home, I will feel that

(12:39):
as an agitation. I'll wake up in the morning and
I'll just know there's going to be an earthquake, and
then frequently it's validated. But a lot of connection to
the earth, that kind of thing comes through. They're very
tethered to the earth and what they're feeling connected there.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
They're very sensitive when it comes to earth elements. I
remember the tsunami that hit Indonesia several years ago that
killed two hundred thousand people. The elephants. The elephants and
the lions and whatever animals were on that island headed
for the hill quickly too. They sense it, and this

(13:19):
was hours before anything happened.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, it's really true and along those lines. A little
bit different though, I do work with a lot of
animals that can sense seizures and things with blood sugar
within the human body also as part of their training
and their sensitivity.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
If you were to tell an owner of an animal
the best way to communicate with their pet, what advice
would you give them?

Speaker 3 (13:49):
To slow down and quiet your mind and breathe into
your heart space. I think that's really important to exhale
slower than you are breathing in and to really let
go of an agenda to not be so attached to
the outcome of it and really be in the process

(14:10):
of it. They tend to be very image based, and
so when you're closed I close my eyes a lot,
and when you're using your sixth sense, a lot of
times images will pop up or and that will combined
with an emotion. So really paying attention and slowing down.

(14:30):
You can even sit with your animal and have one
hand on them or one hand on their heart and
slow down your breathing and then just feel without an agenda,
feel where you end and where they begin, and have
that recognition, and then from there you can send a
question when you think about this food change, and then

(14:50):
your head is going to go into well, I know
they don't like that. I know they like their old food.
Late you know more, and there might be truth in that,
but you're listening in a different way, and so they're
you're listening as a sensory being, and so you're listening
actually to the sensations in your own physical body that
holds the answer before your brain kicks in.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Generally, when an animal is communicating what do they want
to know?

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Generally, a lot of times I would say they're very
invested in having their treats and their meals beyond time,
and so especially if they're going to be moving or traveling,
or their person is going to be traveling and with
a sitter, they want to make sure that their meal

(15:38):
schedule stays the same. And that is pretty universal.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I bet they hate going to the veterinarian, don't they?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
A lot of them do. But I'm surprised more and
more how many animals can be friendly there and think
of the vet as their as their friend. But I
would say the majority of them that I work with
have anxiety about it.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
When your clients come to you, what do they want
to know, mostly.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
If their animal is happy and what they can do
to make their animal happy. The people that tend to
use me are really invested in their relationship with their
animal and going deeper and deeper into being able to
read their animals' needs and to listen there and do
their best for their animals. So a lot of times,
for whatever reason, probably the history of me being a nurse,

(16:30):
I have a lot of health related issues that come
my way with the animals, But they're always interested in
what they can do better and what they can do
to make their animal more comfortable or happy.

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