February 5, 2020 • 35 mins
Can we communicate with our beloved pets after they pass?
Our animals hold a special place in our hearts and daily lives, and they continue to do so after they cross into the Spirit World.
Perhaps you’ve felt this already — you catch a shadow glimpse, hear a sound, recognize their familiar scent, feel a warmth by your side that you can’t explain...
The comfort, companionship, and unconditional love your pet gave you here on Earth is still available to you here and now. With tenderness and spiritual insight, Julie and Brenda share their experiences and guide you down the path to reuniting with your beloved pets, no matter how long they’ve been playing fetch on the Other Side.
So go ahead and call to them. They’ll still come running your way.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, y'all, I'm Julie. Hi there, I'm Brenda. Welcome to
Insider's Guide to the Other Side. Now y'all need to
know that we are obsessed with everything on the other side.
Yes we are, because once you learn to navigate the
energetic or two some the invisible world, life is going
to be more fun and much more serene. Heck, yes
(00:24):
it can, because, let's be honest, Brand, earth school is hard.
In fact, you taught me that. Let's crush Earth School together.
Welcome to Insider's Guide to the Other Side, a production
of I Heart Radio. Hey, Brand, Hello, my elf. You
know it's funny for how different we are in the
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real world. Very different. I mean, to stand us up
next to each other and it's like, what, but one
thing that we are so incredibly similar with is the
love for our dogs. Practically the same person. You're practically
the same person for how much we are crazy about
our dogs. I have for the last several weeks been
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able to spend every single moment, and I mean every
moment with my dog Sukie. Now, just everybody knows she
was named after Silkie Stackhouse from True Blood HBO. She
catch up, catch up. It's been it's been on forever.
It's already off like a decade ago. You need to
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watch blood. I've been busy. Oh my gosh. Anyway, Suki
is my labordoodle, and she is the sweetest creature. Follows
me like from a deep sleep. She will get up
she hears me or feels me move, she will get
up from a deep sleep to follow me wherever it
is that I'm going. She and I go out for
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walks every morning for at least five miles will go,
which is great for both of us. And I just
love this creature so insanely much. And I think that
is one of the things that one of our ties
that minds. We have so many things that bind. We
might not be alike, but we got a lot of
ties that mind. But that is certainly one. And I
think that you. I think you love your dog as
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much as I love mine. I love my little Lulu.
She's as sweet as puppy and she was named after
yoga wear. She was not you are a naughty alpha.
Lulu is a cavapooh and she is went fourteen months
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fifteen months. She's so cute. She is sweet, sweet, sweet,
so cute and funny. She has such an oral thing.
She's so mouthy. She is a mouthy little dog. So
she always she can't even greet you, even though her
body is quivering with joy, until she has something in
her mouth to present to You's just the cutest thing.
And she's the first. She's the first little creature that
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you have had since losing Maggie, since Maggie passed, we've
never lost her. But yes she did past. Maggie jumped,
she dumped the planet. It was her times. Yes, Maggie
lived to be. She was a little ships. She was
actually a big ship su especial. Yeah, she was incredible. Yeah,
she was a big spirit and a tiny body. Yes,
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she was set. And now we have Lulu, And now
you have Lulu and so and I know what that
feels like of losing one of our babies. Home has
been gone almost a year. I just can't even And
I'm probably gonna cry this episode, just to warn everybody
for how much I do. Because what we wanted to
talk about today is the animal kingdom and where do
our pets go? Because I think that people have a
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lot of questions about this. You know you can again,
you well know how I like to read and then
I go on and I read what you know, people like, oh,
they're in the rainbow bridge now and they're on these
and it's like, I just think we need Brenda to
clarify for us what exactly our pets are doing when
they cross. Where are they We're going to hit all
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this stuff. Yes, the pets that cross are still there,
like any other spirit who's passed, they are still available
to us. We can call on them, we can call
them in, we can count on their presence. Some of
us can even hear them or smell them or feel
them around us. So there's a present. You can even
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feel like warmth at the end of at the foot
of the bed, if that's where your pets slept. So
there's all kinds of ways to engage your pet. As
I understand it that the frequency in which you cross
over is the frequency and where you sort of land
and kind of hang out. So the dogs hang out
in their vibrational frequency. That doesn't mean you won't run
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into your beloved pet when you get to the other side,
but it's more of a visitation thing, like we'll come together,
but we may not hang out to go to different states.
So it's like we go to California when we pass
and they go to let's say Oregon, they would love Oregon, yes,
because they can run and run around. So when you
tap into um our pets, because you have certainly done
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that for me a number of times and I thank you,
like for the bottom of my heart for it. Do
you hear them? So when Homer talks to you, how
does so? First of all, when Homer talked to me
when he was here, he would bark his full head
off and he had a giant bark. It was giant
like you. It would bounce off your chest like, oh
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my god. Homer was a lab, a full impact lab lab.
And what was so funny about Homer is we had
we've had Susanna and I have had lots of pets
in our life together and Homer was the dog that
was incredibly loud. Everything had to be the way he
wanted it. So he bossed us right well, he was
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in charge effectively, Homer in charge. And so it was
hilarious is that people would come over and they would
meet our cat, Booger, and they'll be like, Oh, I
love Booger. I want Booger like people, Oh I want Punky,
not one person said, I want Homer, not a single soul,
and I was like, oh, I want that in my house. No,
that's no, that's that's saved just special for me. But
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that was okay because Homer was yours. Oh he was
mine for sure. He was the first dog that I
ever loved because I was actually when I was how
old was I think I was five when I was
a bit on the back of the head by a
German shepherd. Did I ever tell you that I feel
(06:32):
about the panther? But I know about being Yeah, I've
also been bit by a panther. That's a whole other show. Um,
But I was there. I didn't know forever. You didn't
just dropped in one super not happy with me when
I dropped that too. It was it was recent. No,
I was bit in the head on the head by
a German shepherd that was owned by my little friend
in Oatmagy, Oklahoma. And this little friend just ps side note,
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used to wear my nightgowns. I love him. How great
is that? Like? That was nineteen seventy early and he's
like all taken my nightgowns from me. It was fantastic.
But it was his dog, maybe his dog wanted my nightgowns.
I don't know, but we were actually playing catch, he
and I. I was very sporty. I've been sporty lesbian
since I was very young. And we were playing catch
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with the ball and I think his dog thought that
we were playing keep away from it, and so his
dog just attacked me. So I've had a thing about dogs.
I've had PTSD. I still have a little PTSD about
German shepherd. I have to say, yeah, I will cross
the street. I did not know that. Yeah, so I
kept bit by a German shepherd. Oh my god, did
you really? Because my dad told me not to. Father
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we were at a neighbor's house for a party or something.
We were in the backyard and he told me not
to bother the dog while the dog was eating. And
so the first thing I did was or walk right
up to the dog. Wh did what. I have like
a three four in scar on the back of my head.
Still I have scars on my hand from what like
look at us scart. We had something more in common
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than I have. But I have since healed that relationship
because I have met so many amazing German shepherds. Clearly
I haven't so I'm just saying like, oh my gosh,
these these dogs are amazing. So when Homer would talk
to you, yes, I want to know because I am
super curious and I would have a feeling that our
listeners are curious, just like now that he's past, because
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he's talked to you, he's come to you. Uh what,
So does he talk to his lips? Smith Like when
he's you know, it's like it's eventual chill quiz things.
He had big floppy lips like the lab, like that
English lab. So does he talk like is if I
wish you guys could see me because I'm using my
hand stock Frappet saying, does he talk to you to
his lips or is it as all vibration a vibrations?
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He sits, He sits in front of me, and usually
he's sitting, but when he gets animated, he'll stand up,
like when he told me that the little dog rebel, No,
he told me sucky stick. He was a hot mess.
Yeah stuck. He was a hot when and he's like,
oh no, that dog like he stood up like and
unlike moved his head like oh you know how dogs
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will swing their head from something. It's just hysterical, but
it's all vibrational. And I just want to say when
we think about communicating with dogs or pets who have
passed on, all you have to do is open your
heart because it's a heart to heart connection, it's not
a verbal connection. And I can't tell you how many
times when I'm doing spirit messages for where I give
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messages from spirits who have passed on and do it
in a public form, how many times pet show up
in those sessions. And oftentimes they will open the session,
which always cracks me up. I'm like, was not expecting that.
I don't know why. It always catches me off guard.
Or they'll just run through the entire group and like
they'll sit on someone and they'll just run through or
run around and do circles in the middle. They're very animated,
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they're very excited, so they are completely accessible to us.
So much fun and um yeah, they that's so great idea.
They just like run through the room. You know. I've
seen when I have connected with my mom on the
other side, I have seen her and she must have
been on the cat planet or something, which is where
she probably would hang out all the time. Even if
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it wasn't her home so to speak. Were they their
cats all over her and like crawling on her. And
she's happy, happy, happy, happy, happy happy happy. But I've
seen her with a whole bunch of cats before. That
makes a lot of sense because that's what she's happy.
And she can right, she can, she can choose that.
We are going to talk more about our beloved spirit
animals and the cat planet when we come back. Welcome
(10:38):
back everyone. I just found out at this break that
Brenda was I think once considered a pet psychic and
before and I will say, you are extraordinary with pets, extraordinary,
So I would be surprised if that'll. Let me provide
some context context this out of how this happened. So
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I had a client who I was working with. She
was she happened in the DC area, and her cat
was very sick and was trying to figure out a
plan of care for her and what was appropriate. And
so we just connected a couple of times over this
process to help the cat transition because her cat had
lived a great life and was done and I wanted
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a way out with with ease and grace, and so
helped her through that process. And so what happened coming
out of that engagement was that whenever when anyone of
her friends, this woman's friends pet got sick, that she
would hand it out my number. So I ended up
talking to all these people about their pets. So it
was more by default than actual strategy. So I don't
(11:44):
consider myself a pet psychic. But you're so good. And
you're so good because when when Homer was sick, he uh,
he only showed you that he was sick. And I
think that's really interesting, because Susanne and I are surrounded
by some extraordinary humans and some with really great psychic gifts.
He didn't show anybody else but you and what was
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And now that I think about it, it makes sense
because when you were just saying the story about helping
your friends or your client's cat transition, you know, it
was Homer who was very insistent on not wanting surgery,
and he was he was telling me through you that
he didn't want that. And I remember struggling and talking
(12:27):
to Susanne about and of course every vet, right, they
stay in their lane lane, you know, and their lane
is I'm a doctor, therefore I do surgery, And so
they all wanted to cut into him and I would
sit there. It's just not solving, bawling. No, you cannot
cut into my dog. You cannot do this, you cannot
do this. I did not know what we were dealing with,
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but it's interesting because he had cancer of the spleen,
and everybody who was taking X rays of him were
only taking the upper upper part, the first part of
his body, because he doesn't stand onling on two las
animore on that part and not the back, which so
is also fascinating the way it unfolded. I didn't do
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any surgery for him, and I didn't want to do
that either, because I think we as humans, right, we
have this need to hold on so desperately to our pets,
and we will torture them through medications and surgeries and
things like that when we need to be more well
remember heartful about it well. And what I'd say is
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that for our animals, that they mature very quickly. Right.
We take a couple of decades, sometimes more so twenty years.
Thirty years really, astrologically speaking, is when you become an adult.
When you're considered an adult after some time after thirty years.
I would argue that there are some people I know
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that are in their fifties and there not an adult. Ye, well,
they're working on it in progress. But for animals, within
eighteen months they are pretty much considered able to survive
on their own. I'm not talking about our domesticated animals,
but in the animal kingdom, like by then, most of
them are able to survive on their own. And so
considering the cycle of rebirth, it's easy for them too,
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you know, finish one life and then go into a
resting state and then come back, and they don't have
to wait three decades before they're an adult. They're like, Okay,
I'm getting this body. This is great, I'm strong. I mean,
my this this little cavapoo who's stolen my heart is
at such peak physical condition. She leaps for frisbees like
she's getting so strong and and it's a marvel to
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watch how quickly they mature. So it's easy for them
to be at their physical peak and to hold them
in a body that isn't at that in the in
the natural environment. In their natural environment, they wouldn't survive.
And so when we make these big intervenge it's it's
actually can be more traumatizing for their spirit. I'm not
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saying for everyone, but in general, because they mature so
easily and so quickly, it's easy for them. It's not
considered a hardship to go, hey, I'm done with this body.
I get to start over. Let me start. Well. You also,
I was lucky because I have you and you had
said to me, Homer doesn't want that. Oh, Homer was
so not into that. He was so he didn't even
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like going to the vet is what it felt like
he did. He hated it. So then I need to
ask you a couple of questions. So do pets or
have we experienced past lives with our pets in this life? Sometimes? Yes,
because I'm convinced that Homer was my dad. Even though
I told you that we don't jump species. I told you, yes,
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you told me that, Did I not say that? He
said you said you told me, yeah, I told you.
I was schooling you that we don't jump species. But
I swear if there was an animal that could have
been my dad was my damn dog, because he bossed
my ship around so much. Get me this. I want
that he had different barks for everything he did. I
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remember hearing some of them, Oh my god. So but
they were all loud. Well, you know, Mony used to
call him the barking pony. Oh yeah, that makes because
he was also a big boy. But so we can
experience previous lives with our pets from this life, now
can they? So Homer was a dog, Well, he was
a dog. They will not jump species. But but how
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broad do we say species? Like could he have been
a cat? He could have been a different dog, a
different dog, different Because I'm I'm convinced, and please don't
tell me otherwise that he and I had lived a
past life together that would not surprise We had to
have that would not surprise me. And he was my
dog dad. They were very, very connected. Dysfunctionally so, and
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they say that with great respect, So disfunctionally so. Okay,
Then I have another question. Do they build a soul
plan like we do before we go into a body. Yes,
my understanding is yes, it wouldn't be as complex as ours.
We have many options and lovers that we can pull
to to activate different plans. There's as much more focused
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on love is when it say it's more simplistic, ours
is too. But we you know, we get pretty complicated
about around it. We're so complicated. So complicated and interesting. Right,
let's call it that. So I will confess because again
I have to have one every opportunity that I can.
I've been into this topic for a very long time.
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I have love pets from when I was a child,
and then Suzanne introduced me to this radio show UM
hosted by a woman named Sonia Fitzpatrick, and we used
to drive around on Saturdays for hours listening to her,
and it was she was amazing. Her daughter used to
feel the calls. I think she still does it, by
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the way, I would tune into her. Guys, if if
I were used, She's amazing. I like how you say,
like you didn't have a radio in the house. We
had to drive around. I don't think we did. I
don't think we did. I don't think about a radio
in the house. I think that's why we drove around.
That weird. Thanks for outing me. But we would listen
to this woman. Her daughter would would screen the calls,
and they both had British accents, which I'm assuming they're British,
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but there's no proof that they were the only proof
that they have British accents and should say ship like
you know, Fido doesn't like the food you're feeding him
and his bed is too firm or something like she
would talk to animals, sounds like Phido's a little prima
donna and perhaps right, maybe the food suck. But so
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we can also communicate with I mean like you communicated
with Homer when he was still living. So is there
a different way that we can communicate with our animals
from when they are still here and when they're not
in their body anymore? Or is it the same? It's
sort of this saying. What I'd say is, you know
when you look at your dog, Oh they gotta go out,
Oh they want to play. Oh they're hungry, you know,
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like you can tell they have different like or they
waiting at the door for us and how and they
don't wear a watch? Yes, they do that. So I
have a great story about that. So back in the
day when I had Maggie and it was just me
and Maggie, and I was traveling a lot for my job.
And this is when I was doing readings up in
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Mount Adams with my dear friend Marty, and Marty was
an award winning dog trainer Raisor. She was amazing dog.
What do you what would you call it? She raised dogs.
She raised trainer, how a trainer trainer, She's just she
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was amazing with dogs, and she was hysterical. So I
would drop Maggie off at Marty's and tell Marty, oh,
I'm coming home on Thursday, or I'm coming home on Friday,
and my it's like whatever. You know, you travel so much.
I can't I can't keep track of it. But she
never had to, because she would just wait for Maggie
to go sit by the front door all day, and
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then she knew I was coming home. Okay, you tell
me she's coming home today. I believe she's coming home today.
And sure enough, i'd come by and pick her up
and make her home because I would be on the road.
And remember, like our dogs communicate in pictures, not in words.
I mean, they obviously respond to our words when we
train them, but in general, they communicate in pictures, and
so I would be picturing. You know. I'd crawl into bed,
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into our hotel room, and I go, okay, okay, Maggie.
Three more sleeps, okay, Maggie. Two more sleeps, Okay, Maggie,
one more sleeping. Okay, Meggie, I'm coming home. So you
told me that story the other day, and when Suzanne
took me to the airport to fly out here. She
always brings Sukie and Rebel with her in the car. Yes,
of course, because they a great company. Yeah. Well, and
also Sucking doesn't let us leave the house without her.
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She's just very insistent. And so Suzanne rolled down the
window to the back seat where Sukie was, and I
put my head up to hers, and I said, I'll
be home in two sleeps. Sleep, I'll be home in
two sleeps. It's so beautiful. What a great gift to
give you a little boot. Yeah, just too, because she
she looks for me when I'm not at home. Oh yeah,
oh yeah. I mean there was even a study done
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when dog owners would leave the restaurant. They would check
in on how the dogs and the dogs would when
the minute they left the restaurant and we're going home,
not like I'm going out on the town, but I'm
going home, the dogs would come to the door. Like
the connection is really? I love that so much. Well,
of course, there's all the studies that have been done
too about how our pets, especially for older folks, can
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they're more healthy physically, and that's why so many of
the senior homes have a resident dog and sometimes cats,
but mostly dogs. Yeah, I don't think I could train
Sookie to do that. I don't really train my dogs
very well. I used because you said about words, and
I am not good at that. I mean I can try.
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Ain't a dog, okay, but I am not consistent enough
with my words. So with Homer, when I tried to
get him to stop barking, which clearly that didn't work
very often, but I but I would fail. What I
but what what happened was it was tole epic failed.
It was hilarious though, is that I would say, go
to your bed, which I tried to teach him to
go to his bed, but then he'd be quiet, so
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I just could it was communication. It just may not
have been directed linear. It wasn't. It was the go
to your bed and then he'd be quiet. I'm like,
what just happened? That'll work? And then wouldn't forget that
that would work? And then he'd bark it anyway, We'll
come back with more Animal Kingdom stories after this break.
Welcome back. So during the break, Julie's beloved Homer is here.
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I'm present, and he brought in a cat that I
didn't know, and so I'm I'm scanning back and forth
trying to forget where this cat goes, and I'm like,
I have my elf in front of me. I can
just ask her, did you have a cat before Homer?
And did they knew each other? I know each other now. No,
I don't know that. I think they ever met. Well,
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they probably met on that so yeah, they met on
the other side and on that side or previous life. Maybe,
I don't know. Murphy was my cat. Murphy a great cat.
She was extraordinary, very regal. Yeah, yeah, sweet. She would
torture us when we would come home from being gone awhile,
like a vacation. She would literally would come home and
she would literally turn her back to us and then
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look over her shoulder. I was like, oh please, she
has no she has no idea what you're speaking of.
She does kidding. I can see that because she presents
very regal and you know how muche must be paid. Yeah,
but she had a great life. Was she more Suzanne's cat?
Noe more mine? Really? Oh? Wait, is there something I
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need to know I don't know about? No, she was
both of ours, I would say, for sure. Oh, was
this when you were traveling a lot though? Probably? Okay? Yes,
actually I was traveling a lot with Susanne a lot more.
That makes sense. What's Homer doing? Homer ushered the connection?
Oh he did? What else is he doing? Is he
on my left side? By chance? He's right there? On
your left or my left? He is on my left?
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You're right? Got it? Yeah? The cats on that side?
Is that? Okay? Murphy? Murphy? She corrected me. She did
not want to be called the cat. Apologize. Names are
not my gift? Is Homwer good? Commerce great? Does he
want to say anything? Is anything I need to do? Really?
He doesn't know advice, because well, what you need? I
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don't know what he needs to do. I don't know
what would he need to do either. Why I'm asking nothing?
Sucky is good? I'm right? Asked him how I'm doing
with Sukie? Suckie is good? He's saying, yes, very different
from the last time we spoke, no longer and rebels
better too. He says, yeah, she is, Yeah, rebels better too.
So there's something I don't know exactly how old Rebel
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is now or but there's a maturity, he says about her.
Where she's not as I'm just going to use the word, right,
she's just not as bitchy. Totally true, right, she was bitchy.
So that's that's what he says. That says little dogs,
little dogs could be bitches. Well that's he's saying. But
she's not as as bad as she was before. So yeah,
so he approves. He's doing good. Oh good, he's doing
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very well. Thank you, thanks Holmes and just checking in
there out. They're still here, but they don't need me anymore.
So I love when you do that. I wish everybody
could watch you. In fact, you guys will watch her
do this someday. But I just love it to remember
when you were in Cincinnati almost a year ago, when
yes it was about a year for year book tour,
and we caught a picture of this spirit dog, Maggie
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I've a loved Shitsu, and it was so great because
she was looking at the crazy puppy Lulu. That was
so insane too, because we're in yours to set the
stage where in your living room and it was the
night before I think I had to go do interviews
or something on a local TV station, and we were
just hanging out and we were just hanging out and
I had my phone and I think, I want to
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go take a picture of Lulu if I'm not mistakes,
And she just bolted out of the friend and I
took a picture and I'm looking at it and I
will choose a six month puppy, right, she would just
she just bolted everyone. She was insane and all the
best sways insane. But I remember looking at the picture
and hesitating whether or not to say anything to you
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or not, because I didn't want it to make you sad.
Oh yeah, and so I just I had this moment
of hesitation. Then I'm like, oh my thinking, and I
remember saying, I think this is Maggie. I think we
caught I think we got Maggie. And you were like
you were blown away because you've never seen a photo
of ghost Maggie. No, I've seen ghost Maggie, but now
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you've never seen a photo of ghost Maggie. Of course
you see ghost Maggie, but not a photo of her.
Would you be cool if we posted that to share
with everyone again? And I want to do out side
by side, So ghost magee real Maggey. Oh that's a
great because it's such a great photo. Of her. That's
a great idea. Yeah, I love that. She totally do that.
She needs to be famous. Well she's sassy pants, you know,
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and she's such as sassy pants. So I had I
got a picture one time. It was during my initial
ghost photography obsession, and I got a picture of Suzanne's dog, Punky,
and Punky was so tragically killed by coyotes in the neighborhood.
It was awful on Christmas Day. Let me just keep
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adding to the pain of my wife because she was
just so utterly devastated. But about a year later, I
got a picture of Punky who was playing down in
the yard. It was it was great. So I love
how and get you know these pets, they just have
such big spirits. I remember the day Maggie passed. I
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couldn't go home because I was just distraught. I was
just completely beside myself and I can't go home, get
go because I will freak out to be in the
house without Maggie. And so we went to a park
where Megan I used to go all the time, and
I could just see her entire spirit across the entire
sky that I could see I saw. I mean, it
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was just so much. It was so beautiful, and I
was a little bit embarrassed that I was being so
dramatic with her passing, like I can't go home. I
just can't go home. I can't bear it, because she
showed me like instantly, there's no loss, there's no loss,
and she should be like mom. If anybody understands total
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pop like on the top of my head than you
and I understand. And it was just so overwhelmingly beautiful
and generous and this beautiful, beautiful creature that I'm so
grateful for. And you know, it was extraordinary. It was
just extraordinary. Every once in a while I smell Homer. Yeah,
that beautiful, that beautiful gift of being able to smell them. Yeah,
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it's it's that's so important. Right, And and I've seen
him by the way, I think, were you he's still here? Right?
Does he go in Alex's dreams? And he'll know exactly
who I'm talking about. The answers, yes, yes, does he? Yes?
How does he know? Alex? Alex is our god daughter
and her mom Andy is my friend that I grew
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up with, an Oklahoma, very close friend who asked Susanne
and I to be her godparents. Which how cool is that?
I mean, who, like what child would not want to
lesbians as her godparents. We don't exactly help her in
the spirit, in the in the what like the religious
realm and that what god parents are for. Yeah, we
don't really do that, but we bring a lot of
her a lot of other gifts. But anyway, Alex will
call us and say, like weekly, Alex is waking up
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saying I saw a Homer last night, because Homer had
this really weird thing with her. Well, first of all,
he's very protective and I don't know what's going on
for her right now, but I feel like she's testing
some boundaries and she's ate and so by nature right,
that's her job right now. But I feel like he's
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but she's kind of getting out over her ski and
he's pulling her back a little bit. Interesting. Yes, he's
being that protector because he's so protecting so well. So
since she was a couple of weeks old, Homer would
walk around her crib, lay in front of it. He
never jumped on her, never did any of like his
crazy ass. I can't believe what. I can't believe what
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you're saying. This dog was I know he was insane,
but he was protective of her still from when she
was born, and it feels like he's with her, there's
no doubt. I love that he's doing good work, so
he wants God dog status done. I'll call Andy after
this episode that Homer's officially the God Dog. But but
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I really what I want people to know is that,
you know how pets in in this life on the
earth plane like jobs. They like jobs to do, like
Homer's protection always that that was he was always in
charge of that. But also in the spirit world the
same thing. So when I need help with Lulu whatever
it is, I call and Maggy all the time, will
you corral her? Like will you help me get this?
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And it just helps so much. They you know, dogs
are animals in general, but dogs specifically that we're talking
about today are in tune with that spirit world and
they're hard wired for just as we are. They're more
conscious of it than we are, and so that have
that instant shorthand is super helpful. Well, he was definitely
Homer was definitely helping me at my aunt Corny's house,
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and she doesn't allow dogs in the house. Actually let
Susanne and I bring her dogs into our house, which
was very uncharacteristic, and the dogs have never behaved better.
I'm like, I looked at Susanna, go whose dogs are these?
What is happening? Right? That is so awesome. So mostly
what we want to remind you in today's session is
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that our loved ones are never more than just calling
them in like that's how how easy it is to
bring them in, to bring them in that hard field,
to feel them, to know their love. And the same
is true with our beloved pets. This exact same is true.
And now add one last thing to that, please is uh,
they also see ghosts? Oh boy, everybody. Definitely, if you're
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if your cat, if you're a dog or ferret or
whatever the hell do you have as a pet, is honey, badger, um,
whatever you got, they are if they're if they're staring
in an opposite direction of where you are and they're
very intent, they know they see and they will play
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with them. Oh yeah, they will. They will play with
the spiritual play with the dogs and the dogs. I
will play with this. Although Homer back to my boy,
he was my protector with this in the spirit world
when I first entered in and speaking of jobs. I
gave my mother a job during that time. I was like, Mom,
I need you. If I opened a ghost portal, I
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would like for you to protect me and Susan the
creatures from whatever I have done. Please clean up my
other mess. She kept cleaning up my messes growing up,
so this was another mess for her. But I think
jobs is a really important thing. That's a general thing.
I think that people should understand because it also they
want to do things for you. But just like on Earth,
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you know how good it feels to help someone you
love exactly. That doesn't change. It doesn't change. So make
sure you give your loved ones that have passed, that
have jumped a job. Give your pets a job. Spirit pets,
give your spirit, give your ghost pets a job. I
need to give Murphy a job. Murphy doesn't need a job.
That's hilarious. Effie does not like My job is to
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look good and I'm good at it. Oh my god,
that's right, pretty cat, right, the beautiful girl. So remember
it that Earth school can be hard, especially when we
forget about our connection and the unconditional love we have
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Hi, y'all, I'm Julie. Hi there, I'm Brenda. Welcome to
Insider's Guide to the Other Side. Now y'all need to
know that we are obsessed with everything on the other side.
Yes we are, because once you learn to navigate the
energetic or two some the invisible world, life is going
to be more fun and much more serene. Heck, yes
(00:24):
it can, because, let's be honest, Brand, earth school is hard.
In fact, you taught me that. Let's crush Earth School together.
Welcome to Insider's Guide to the Other Side, a production
of I Heart Radio. Hey, Brand, Hello, my elf. You
know it's funny for how different we are in the
(00:46):
real world. Very different. I mean, to stand us up
next to each other and it's like, what, but one
thing that we are so incredibly similar with is the
love for our dogs. Practically the same person. You're practically
the same person for how much we are crazy about
our dogs. I have for the last several weeks been
(01:09):
able to spend every single moment, and I mean every
moment with my dog Sukie. Now, just everybody knows she
was named after Silkie Stackhouse from True Blood HBO. She
catch up, catch up. It's been it's been on forever.
It's already off like a decade ago. You need to
(01:31):
watch blood. I've been busy. Oh my gosh. Anyway, Suki
is my labordoodle, and she is the sweetest creature. Follows
me like from a deep sleep. She will get up
she hears me or feels me move, she will get
up from a deep sleep to follow me wherever it
is that I'm going. She and I go out for
(01:52):
walks every morning for at least five miles will go,
which is great for both of us. And I just
love this creature so insanely much. And I think that
is one of the things that one of our ties
that minds. We have so many things that bind. We
might not be alike, but we got a lot of
ties that mind. But that is certainly one. And I
think that you. I think you love your dog as
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much as I love mine. I love my little Lulu.
She's as sweet as puppy and she was named after
yoga wear. She was not you are a naughty alpha.
Lulu is a cavapooh and she is went fourteen months
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fifteen months. She's so cute. She is sweet, sweet, sweet,
so cute and funny. She has such an oral thing.
She's so mouthy. She is a mouthy little dog. So
she always she can't even greet you, even though her
body is quivering with joy, until she has something in
her mouth to present to You's just the cutest thing.
And she's the first. She's the first little creature that
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you have had since losing Maggie, since Maggie passed, we've
never lost her. But yes she did past. Maggie jumped,
she dumped the planet. It was her times. Yes, Maggie
lived to be. She was a little ships. She was
actually a big ship su especial. Yeah, she was incredible. Yeah,
she was a big spirit and a tiny body. Yes,
(03:19):
she was set. And now we have Lulu, And now
you have Lulu and so and I know what that
feels like of losing one of our babies. Home has
been gone almost a year. I just can't even And
I'm probably gonna cry this episode, just to warn everybody
for how much I do. Because what we wanted to
talk about today is the animal kingdom and where do
our pets go? Because I think that people have a
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lot of questions about this. You know you can again,
you well know how I like to read and then
I go on and I read what you know, people like, oh,
they're in the rainbow bridge now and they're on these
and it's like, I just think we need Brenda to
clarify for us what exactly our pets are doing when
they cross. Where are they We're going to hit all
(04:02):
this stuff. Yes, the pets that cross are still there,
like any other spirit who's passed, they are still available
to us. We can call on them, we can call
them in, we can count on their presence. Some of
us can even hear them or smell them or feel
them around us. So there's a present. You can even
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feel like warmth at the end of at the foot
of the bed, if that's where your pets slept. So
there's all kinds of ways to engage your pet. As
I understand it that the frequency in which you cross
over is the frequency and where you sort of land
and kind of hang out. So the dogs hang out
in their vibrational frequency. That doesn't mean you won't run
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into your beloved pet when you get to the other side,
but it's more of a visitation thing, like we'll come together,
but we may not hang out to go to different states.
So it's like we go to California when we pass
and they go to let's say Oregon, they would love Oregon, yes,
because they can run and run around. So when you
tap into um our pets, because you have certainly done
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that for me a number of times and I thank you,
like for the bottom of my heart for it. Do
you hear them? So when Homer talks to you, how
does so? First of all, when Homer talked to me
when he was here, he would bark his full head
off and he had a giant bark. It was giant
like you. It would bounce off your chest like, oh
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my god. Homer was a lab, a full impact lab lab.
And what was so funny about Homer is we had
we've had Susanna and I have had lots of pets
in our life together and Homer was the dog that
was incredibly loud. Everything had to be the way he
wanted it. So he bossed us right well, he was
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in charge effectively, Homer in charge. And so it was
hilarious is that people would come over and they would
meet our cat, Booger, and they'll be like, Oh, I
love Booger. I want Booger like people, Oh I want Punky,
not one person said, I want Homer, not a single soul,
and I was like, oh, I want that in my house. No,
that's no, that's that's saved just special for me. But
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that was okay because Homer was yours. Oh he was
mine for sure. He was the first dog that I
ever loved because I was actually when I was how
old was I think I was five when I was
a bit on the back of the head by a
German shepherd. Did I ever tell you that I feel
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about the panther? But I know about being Yeah, I've
also been bit by a panther. That's a whole other show. Um,
But I was there. I didn't know forever. You didn't
just dropped in one super not happy with me when
I dropped that too. It was it was recent. No,
I was bit in the head on the head by
a German shepherd that was owned by my little friend
in Oatmagy, Oklahoma. And this little friend just ps side note,
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used to wear my nightgowns. I love him. How great
is that? Like? That was nineteen seventy early and he's
like all taken my nightgowns from me. It was fantastic.
But it was his dog, maybe his dog wanted my nightgowns.
I don't know, but we were actually playing catch, he
and I. I was very sporty. I've been sporty lesbian
since I was very young. And we were playing catch
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with the ball and I think his dog thought that
we were playing keep away from it, and so his
dog just attacked me. So I've had a thing about dogs.
I've had PTSD. I still have a little PTSD about
German shepherd. I have to say, yeah, I will cross
the street. I did not know that. Yeah, so I
kept bit by a German shepherd. Oh my god, did
you really? Because my dad told me not to. Father
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we were at a neighbor's house for a party or something.
We were in the backyard and he told me not
to bother the dog while the dog was eating. And
so the first thing I did was or walk right
up to the dog. Wh did what. I have like
a three four in scar on the back of my head.
Still I have scars on my hand from what like
look at us scart. We had something more in common
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than I have. But I have since healed that relationship
because I have met so many amazing German shepherds. Clearly
I haven't so I'm just saying like, oh my gosh,
these these dogs are amazing. So when Homer would talk
to you, yes, I want to know because I am
super curious and I would have a feeling that our
listeners are curious, just like now that he's past, because
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he's talked to you, he's come to you. Uh what,
So does he talk to his lips? Smith Like when
he's you know, it's like it's eventual chill quiz things.
He had big floppy lips like the lab, like that
English lab. So does he talk like is if I
wish you guys could see me because I'm using my
hand stock Frappet saying, does he talk to you to
his lips or is it as all vibration a vibrations?
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He sits, He sits in front of me, and usually
he's sitting, but when he gets animated, he'll stand up,
like when he told me that the little dog rebel, No,
he told me sucky stick. He was a hot mess.
Yeah stuck. He was a hot when and he's like,
oh no, that dog like he stood up like and
unlike moved his head like oh you know how dogs
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will swing their head from something. It's just hysterical, but
it's all vibrational. And I just want to say when
we think about communicating with dogs or pets who have
passed on, all you have to do is open your
heart because it's a heart to heart connection, it's not
a verbal connection. And I can't tell you how many
times when I'm doing spirit messages for where I give
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messages from spirits who have passed on and do it
in a public form, how many times pet show up
in those sessions. And oftentimes they will open the session,
which always cracks me up. I'm like, was not expecting that.
I don't know why. It always catches me off guard.
Or they'll just run through the entire group and like
they'll sit on someone and they'll just run through or
run around and do circles in the middle. They're very animated,
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they're very excited, so they are completely accessible to us.
So much fun and um yeah, they that's so great idea.
They just like run through the room. You know. I've
seen when I have connected with my mom on the
other side, I have seen her and she must have
been on the cat planet or something, which is where
she probably would hang out all the time. Even if
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it wasn't her home so to speak. Were they their
cats all over her and like crawling on her. And
she's happy, happy, happy, happy, happy happy happy. But I've
seen her with a whole bunch of cats before. That
makes a lot of sense because that's what she's happy.
And she can right, she can, she can choose that.
We are going to talk more about our beloved spirit
animals and the cat planet when we come back. Welcome
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back everyone. I just found out at this break that
Brenda was I think once considered a pet psychic and
before and I will say, you are extraordinary with pets, extraordinary,
So I would be surprised if that'll. Let me provide
some context context this out of how this happened. So
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I had a client who I was working with. She
was she happened in the DC area, and her cat
was very sick and was trying to figure out a
plan of care for her and what was appropriate. And
so we just connected a couple of times over this
process to help the cat transition because her cat had
lived a great life and was done and I wanted
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a way out with with ease and grace, and so
helped her through that process. And so what happened coming
out of that engagement was that whenever when anyone of
her friends, this woman's friends pet got sick, that she
would hand it out my number. So I ended up
talking to all these people about their pets. So it
was more by default than actual strategy. So I don't
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consider myself a pet psychic. But you're so good. And
you're so good because when when Homer was sick, he uh,
he only showed you that he was sick. And I
think that's really interesting, because Susanne and I are surrounded
by some extraordinary humans and some with really great psychic gifts.
He didn't show anybody else but you and what was
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And now that I think about it, it makes sense
because when you were just saying the story about helping
your friends or your client's cat transition, you know, it
was Homer who was very insistent on not wanting surgery,
and he was he was telling me through you that
he didn't want that. And I remember struggling and talking
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to Susanne about and of course every vet, right, they
stay in their lane lane, you know, and their lane
is I'm a doctor, therefore I do surgery, And so
they all wanted to cut into him and I would
sit there. It's just not solving, bawling. No, you cannot
cut into my dog. You cannot do this, you cannot
do this. I did not know what we were dealing with,
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but it's interesting because he had cancer of the spleen,
and everybody who was taking X rays of him were
only taking the upper upper part, the first part of
his body, because he doesn't stand onling on two las
animore on that part and not the back, which so
is also fascinating the way it unfolded. I didn't do
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any surgery for him, and I didn't want to do
that either, because I think we as humans, right, we
have this need to hold on so desperately to our pets,
and we will torture them through medications and surgeries and
things like that when we need to be more well
remember heartful about it well. And what I'd say is
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that for our animals, that they mature very quickly. Right.
We take a couple of decades, sometimes more so twenty years.
Thirty years really, astrologically speaking, is when you become an adult.
When you're considered an adult after some time after thirty years.
I would argue that there are some people I know
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that are in their fifties and there not an adult. Ye, well,
they're working on it in progress. But for animals, within
eighteen months they are pretty much considered able to survive
on their own. I'm not talking about our domesticated animals,
but in the animal kingdom, like by then, most of
them are able to survive on their own. And so
considering the cycle of rebirth, it's easy for them too,
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you know, finish one life and then go into a
resting state and then come back, and they don't have
to wait three decades before they're an adult. They're like, Okay,
I'm getting this body. This is great, I'm strong. I mean,
my this this little cavapoo who's stolen my heart is
at such peak physical condition. She leaps for frisbees like
she's getting so strong and and it's a marvel to
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watch how quickly they mature. So it's easy for them
to be at their physical peak and to hold them
in a body that isn't at that in the in
the natural environment. In their natural environment, they wouldn't survive.
And so when we make these big intervenge it's it's
actually can be more traumatizing for their spirit. I'm not
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saying for everyone, but in general, because they mature so
easily and so quickly, it's easy for them. It's not
considered a hardship to go, hey, I'm done with this body.
I get to start over. Let me start. Well. You also,
I was lucky because I have you and you had
said to me, Homer doesn't want that. Oh, Homer was
so not into that. He was so he didn't even
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like going to the vet is what it felt like
he did. He hated it. So then I need to
ask you a couple of questions. So do pets or
have we experienced past lives with our pets in this life? Sometimes? Yes,
because I'm convinced that Homer was my dad. Even though
I told you that we don't jump species. I told you, yes,
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you told me that, Did I not say that? He
said you said you told me, yeah, I told you.
I was schooling you that we don't jump species. But
I swear if there was an animal that could have
been my dad was my damn dog, because he bossed
my ship around so much. Get me this. I want
that he had different barks for everything he did. I
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remember hearing some of them, Oh my god. So but
they were all loud. Well, you know, Mony used to
call him the barking pony. Oh yeah, that makes because
he was also a big boy. But so we can
experience previous lives with our pets from this life, now
can they? So Homer was a dog, Well, he was
a dog. They will not jump species. But but how
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broad do we say species? Like could he have been
a cat? He could have been a different dog, a
different dog, different Because I'm I'm convinced, and please don't
tell me otherwise that he and I had lived a
past life together that would not surprise We had to
have that would not surprise me. And he was my
dog dad. They were very, very connected. Dysfunctionally so, and
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they say that with great respect, So disfunctionally so. Okay,
Then I have another question. Do they build a soul
plan like we do before we go into a body. Yes,
my understanding is yes, it wouldn't be as complex as ours.
We have many options and lovers that we can pull
to to activate different plans. There's as much more focused
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on love is when it say it's more simplistic, ours
is too. But we you know, we get pretty complicated
about around it. We're so complicated. So complicated and interesting. Right,
let's call it that. So I will confess because again
I have to have one every opportunity that I can.
I've been into this topic for a very long time.
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I have love pets from when I was a child,
and then Suzanne introduced me to this radio show UM
hosted by a woman named Sonia Fitzpatrick, and we used
to drive around on Saturdays for hours listening to her,
and it was she was amazing. Her daughter used to
feel the calls. I think she still does it, by
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the way, I would tune into her. Guys, if if
I were used, She's amazing. I like how you say,
like you didn't have a radio in the house. We
had to drive around. I don't think we did. I
don't think we did. I don't think about a radio
in the house. I think that's why we drove around.
That weird. Thanks for outing me. But we would listen
to this woman. Her daughter would would screen the calls,
and they both had British accents, which I'm assuming they're British,
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but there's no proof that they were the only proof
that they have British accents and should say ship like
you know, Fido doesn't like the food you're feeding him
and his bed is too firm or something like she
would talk to animals, sounds like Phido's a little prima
donna and perhaps right, maybe the food suck. But so
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we can also communicate with I mean like you communicated
with Homer when he was still living. So is there
a different way that we can communicate with our animals
from when they are still here and when they're not
in their body anymore? Or is it the same? It's
sort of this saying. What I'd say is, you know
when you look at your dog, Oh they gotta go out,
Oh they want to play. Oh they're hungry, you know,
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like you can tell they have different like or they
waiting at the door for us and how and they
don't wear a watch? Yes, they do that. So I
have a great story about that. So back in the
day when I had Maggie and it was just me
and Maggie, and I was traveling a lot for my job.
And this is when I was doing readings up in
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Mount Adams with my dear friend Marty, and Marty was
an award winning dog trainer Raisor. She was amazing dog.
What do you what would you call it? She raised dogs.
She raised trainer, how a trainer trainer, She's just she
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was amazing with dogs, and she was hysterical. So I
would drop Maggie off at Marty's and tell Marty, oh,
I'm coming home on Thursday, or I'm coming home on Friday,
and my it's like whatever. You know, you travel so much.
I can't I can't keep track of it. But she
never had to, because she would just wait for Maggie
to go sit by the front door all day, and
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then she knew I was coming home. Okay, you tell
me she's coming home today. I believe she's coming home today.
And sure enough, i'd come by and pick her up
and make her home because I would be on the road.
And remember, like our dogs communicate in pictures, not in words.
I mean, they obviously respond to our words when we
train them, but in general, they communicate in pictures, and
so I would be picturing. You know. I'd crawl into bed,
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into our hotel room, and I go, okay, okay, Maggie.
Three more sleeps, okay, Maggie. Two more sleeps, Okay, Maggie,
one more sleeping. Okay, Meggie, I'm coming home. So you
told me that story the other day, and when Suzanne
took me to the airport to fly out here. She
always brings Sukie and Rebel with her in the car. Yes,
of course, because they a great company. Yeah. Well, and
also Sucking doesn't let us leave the house without her.
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She's just very insistent. And so Suzanne rolled down the
window to the back seat where Sukie was, and I
put my head up to hers, and I said, I'll
be home in two sleeps. Sleep, I'll be home in
two sleeps. It's so beautiful. What a great gift to
give you a little boot. Yeah, just too, because she
she looks for me when I'm not at home. Oh yeah,
oh yeah. I mean there was even a study done
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when dog owners would leave the restaurant. They would check
in on how the dogs and the dogs would when
the minute they left the restaurant and we're going home,
not like I'm going out on the town, but I'm
going home, the dogs would come to the door. Like
the connection is really? I love that so much. Well,
of course, there's all the studies that have been done
too about how our pets, especially for older folks, can
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they're more healthy physically, and that's why so many of
the senior homes have a resident dog and sometimes cats,
but mostly dogs. Yeah, I don't think I could train
Sookie to do that. I don't really train my dogs
very well. I used because you said about words, and
I am not good at that. I mean I can try.
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Ain't a dog, okay, but I am not consistent enough
with my words. So with Homer, when I tried to
get him to stop barking, which clearly that didn't work
very often, but I but I would fail. What I
but what what happened was it was tole epic failed.
It was hilarious though, is that I would say, go
to your bed, which I tried to teach him to
go to his bed, but then he'd be quiet, so
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I just could it was communication. It just may not
have been directed linear. It wasn't. It was the go
to your bed and then he'd be quiet. I'm like,
what just happened? That'll work? And then wouldn't forget that
that would work? And then he'd bark it anyway, We'll
come back with more Animal Kingdom stories after this break.
Welcome back. So during the break, Julie's beloved Homer is here.
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I'm present, and he brought in a cat that I
didn't know, and so I'm I'm scanning back and forth
trying to forget where this cat goes, and I'm like,
I have my elf in front of me. I can
just ask her, did you have a cat before Homer?
And did they knew each other? I know each other now. No,
I don't know that. I think they ever met. Well,
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they probably met on that so yeah, they met on
the other side and on that side or previous life. Maybe,
I don't know. Murphy was my cat. Murphy a great cat.
She was extraordinary, very regal. Yeah, yeah, sweet. She would
torture us when we would come home from being gone awhile,
like a vacation. She would literally would come home and
she would literally turn her back to us and then
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look over her shoulder. I was like, oh please, she
has no she has no idea what you're speaking of.
She does kidding. I can see that because she presents
very regal and you know how muche must be paid. Yeah,
but she had a great life. Was she more Suzanne's cat?
Noe more mine? Really? Oh? Wait, is there something I
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need to know I don't know about? No, she was
both of ours, I would say, for sure. Oh, was
this when you were traveling a lot though? Probably? Okay? Yes,
actually I was traveling a lot with Susanne a lot more.
That makes sense. What's Homer doing? Homer ushered the connection?
Oh he did? What else is he doing? Is he
on my left side? By chance? He's right there? On
your left or my left? He is on my left?
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You're right? Got it? Yeah? The cats on that side?
Is that? Okay? Murphy? Murphy? She corrected me. She did
not want to be called the cat. Apologize. Names are
not my gift? Is Homwer good? Commerce great? Does he
want to say anything? Is anything I need to do? Really?
He doesn't know advice, because well, what you need? I
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don't know what he needs to do. I don't know
what would he need to do either. Why I'm asking nothing?
Sucky is good? I'm right? Asked him how I'm doing
with Sukie? Suckie is good? He's saying, yes, very different
from the last time we spoke, no longer and rebels
better too. He says, yeah, she is, Yeah, rebels better too.
So there's something I don't know exactly how old Rebel
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is now or but there's a maturity, he says about her.
Where she's not as I'm just going to use the word, right,
she's just not as bitchy. Totally true, right, she was bitchy.
So that's that's what he says. That says little dogs,
little dogs could be bitches. Well that's he's saying. But
she's not as as bad as she was before. So yeah,
so he approves. He's doing good. Oh good, he's doing
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very well. Thank you, thanks Holmes and just checking in
there out. They're still here, but they don't need me anymore.
So I love when you do that. I wish everybody
could watch you. In fact, you guys will watch her
do this someday. But I just love it to remember
when you were in Cincinnati almost a year ago, when
yes it was about a year for year book tour,
and we caught a picture of this spirit dog, Maggie
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I've a loved Shitsu, and it was so great because
she was looking at the crazy puppy Lulu. That was
so insane too, because we're in yours to set the
stage where in your living room and it was the
night before I think I had to go do interviews
or something on a local TV station, and we were
just hanging out and we were just hanging out and
I had my phone and I think, I want to
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go take a picture of Lulu if I'm not mistakes,
And she just bolted out of the friend and I
took a picture and I'm looking at it and I
will choose a six month puppy, right, she would just
she just bolted everyone. She was insane and all the
best sways insane. But I remember looking at the picture
and hesitating whether or not to say anything to you
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or not, because I didn't want it to make you sad.
Oh yeah, and so I just I had this moment
of hesitation. Then I'm like, oh my thinking, and I
remember saying, I think this is Maggie. I think we
caught I think we got Maggie. And you were like
you were blown away because you've never seen a photo
of ghost Maggie. No, I've seen ghost Maggie, but now
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you've never seen a photo of ghost Maggie. Of course
you see ghost Maggie, but not a photo of her.
Would you be cool if we posted that to share
with everyone again? And I want to do out side
by side, So ghost magee real Maggey. Oh that's a
great because it's such a great photo. Of her. That's
a great idea. Yeah, I love that. She totally do that.
She needs to be famous. Well she's sassy pants, you know,
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and she's such as sassy pants. So I had I
got a picture one time. It was during my initial
ghost photography obsession, and I got a picture of Suzanne's dog, Punky,
and Punky was so tragically killed by coyotes in the neighborhood.
It was awful on Christmas Day. Let me just keep
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adding to the pain of my wife because she was
just so utterly devastated. But about a year later, I
got a picture of Punky who was playing down in
the yard. It was it was great. So I love
how and get you know these pets, they just have
such big spirits. I remember the day Maggie passed. I
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couldn't go home because I was just distraught. I was
just completely beside myself and I can't go home, get
go because I will freak out to be in the
house without Maggie. And so we went to a park
where Megan I used to go all the time, and
I could just see her entire spirit across the entire
sky that I could see I saw. I mean, it
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was just so much. It was so beautiful, and I
was a little bit embarrassed that I was being so
dramatic with her passing, like I can't go home. I
just can't go home. I can't bear it, because she
showed me like instantly, there's no loss, there's no loss,
and she should be like mom. If anybody understands total
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pop like on the top of my head than you
and I understand. And it was just so overwhelmingly beautiful
and generous and this beautiful, beautiful creature that I'm so
grateful for. And you know, it was extraordinary. It was
just extraordinary. Every once in a while I smell Homer. Yeah,
that beautiful, that beautiful gift of being able to smell them. Yeah,
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it's it's that's so important. Right, And and I've seen
him by the way, I think, were you he's still here? Right?
Does he go in Alex's dreams? And he'll know exactly
who I'm talking about. The answers, yes, yes, does he? Yes?
How does he know? Alex? Alex is our god daughter
and her mom Andy is my friend that I grew
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up with, an Oklahoma, very close friend who asked Susanne
and I to be her godparents. Which how cool is that?
I mean, who, like what child would not want to
lesbians as her godparents. We don't exactly help her in
the spirit, in the in the what like the religious
realm and that what god parents are for. Yeah, we
don't really do that, but we bring a lot of
her a lot of other gifts. But anyway, Alex will
call us and say, like weekly, Alex is waking up
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saying I saw a Homer last night, because Homer had
this really weird thing with her. Well, first of all,
he's very protective and I don't know what's going on
for her right now, but I feel like she's testing
some boundaries and she's ate and so by nature right,
that's her job right now. But I feel like he's
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but she's kind of getting out over her ski and
he's pulling her back a little bit. Interesting. Yes, he's
being that protector because he's so protecting so well. So
since she was a couple of weeks old, Homer would
walk around her crib, lay in front of it. He
never jumped on her, never did any of like his
crazy ass. I can't believe what. I can't believe what
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you're saying. This dog was I know he was insane,
but he was protective of her still from when she
was born, and it feels like he's with her, there's
no doubt. I love that he's doing good work, so
he wants God dog status done. I'll call Andy after
this episode that Homer's officially the God Dog. But but
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I really what I want people to know is that,
you know how pets in in this life on the
earth plane like jobs. They like jobs to do, like
Homer's protection always that that was he was always in
charge of that. But also in the spirit world the
same thing. So when I need help with Lulu whatever
it is, I call and Maggy all the time, will
you corral her? Like will you help me get this?
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And it just helps so much. They you know, dogs
are animals in general, but dogs specifically that we're talking
about today are in tune with that spirit world and
they're hard wired for just as we are. They're more
conscious of it than we are, and so that have
that instant shorthand is super helpful. Well, he was definitely
Homer was definitely helping me at my aunt Corny's house,
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and she doesn't allow dogs in the house. Actually let
Susanne and I bring her dogs into our house, which
was very uncharacteristic, and the dogs have never behaved better.
I'm like, I looked at Susanna, go whose dogs are these?
What is happening? Right? That is so awesome. So mostly
what we want to remind you in today's session is
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that our loved ones are never more than just calling
them in like that's how how easy it is to
bring them in, to bring them in that hard field,
to feel them, to know their love. And the same
is true with our beloved pets. This exact same is true.
And now add one last thing to that, please is uh,
they also see ghosts? Oh boy, everybody. Definitely, if you're
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if your cat, if you're a dog or ferret or
whatever the hell do you have as a pet, is honey, badger, um,
whatever you got, they are if they're if they're staring
in an opposite direction of where you are and they're
very intent, they know they see and they will play
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with them. Oh yeah, they will. They will play with
the spiritual play with the dogs and the dogs. I
will play with this. Although Homer back to my boy,
he was my protector with this in the spirit world
when I first entered in and speaking of jobs. I
gave my mother a job during that time. I was like, Mom,
I need you. If I opened a ghost portal, I
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would like for you to protect me and Susan the
creatures from whatever I have done. Please clean up my
other mess. She kept cleaning up my messes growing up,
so this was another mess for her. But I think
jobs is a really important thing. That's a general thing.
I think that people should understand because it also they
want to do things for you. But just like on Earth,
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you know how good it feels to help someone you
love exactly. That doesn't change. It doesn't change. So make
sure you give your loved ones that have passed, that
have jumped a job. Give your pets a job. Spirit pets,
give your spirit, give your ghost pets a job. I
need to give Murphy a job. Murphy doesn't need a job.
That's hilarious. Effie does not like My job is to
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look good and I'm good at it. Oh my god,
that's right, pretty cat, right, the beautiful girl. So remember
it that Earth school can be hard, especially when we
forget about our connection and the unconditional love we have
with our spirit pets. Well said, thanks for listening, and
thank you everyone for you by m H. Thanks for
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joining us, everyone, and special thanks to our producer Ma Coole,
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