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Love doesn’t end at the vet’s office door. Jamie sits down with animal communicator Susan Morano to trace a remarkable journey from heartbreak to hope—starting with her dog Jack’s sudden cancer diagnosis and ending with a trail of unmistakable signs that led her to a puppy she believes is Jack returned. The story is specific, grounded, and surprisingly practical: dates, symbols, distances, and choices made in real time, not vague platitudes.

We unpack what animal communication looks like when it’s useful. Susan describes receiving quick images and “mind movies,” the kinds of questions that bring clarity, and the surprising rule that helps pets linger when they visit: meet them with gratitude, not grief spikes. From there, we widen the lens to how animals mirror our energy, why anxious households create anxious pets, and how small nervous systems soak up our stress until it becomes a health risk. Susan shares the journal practices she uses with clients to navigate illness, loss, and the possibility of reincarnation without getting lost in wishful thinking.

Along the way, Jamie brings personal stories—a long-lived cat who still seems to dart past the doorway, and a new rescue dog with mystery origins. Susan offers quick reads that match later facts, plus practical guidance on breed confusion, feeding routines after scarcity, and making hard vet calls when the kindest choice isn’t the most expensive. If you’re grieving, you’ll leave with a simple bedtime method to invite a dream visit and a steadier way to notice signs in daylight: coins in odd places, a toy moved, another pet staring at “nothing.”

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Jamie Flanagan (00:04):
Oh, there's the music.
That means it's time for animaltalk.
Some of the best doggone petpeople on the planet.
I'm Jamie Flanagan.
And boy, oh boy, we got anadventure for you today.
The Rainbow Bridge.
That is uh where we're heading.
And we're gonna communicatewith animals.
That is uh that is the plants.
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(01:35):
And and I'm telling you, Ireally, really do believe you're
gonna be entertained today.
Uh, it's just it's a good one.
Honestly speaking, because wehave with us Susan Morano.
Susan, Susie Speaks toAnimals.com.
Welcome to Animal Talk.

Susan Marano (01:55):
Hello, and thanks for having me.

Jamie Flanagan (01:57):
Susan, thank you so much.
Uh so we're gonna get in.
You got a book, you got awebsite, uh, you you you're an
animal communicator, and we'regonna we're gonna get to all of
that.
But uh before we do, Susan, uhtell me about your childhood.

Susan Marano (02:11):
My childhood.
Oh gosh.
I was born and raised in NewYork City.
Um and when I was in going intothe seventh grade, my mom and
stepdad moved me to Florida.
And that's pretty much it.
I was a ballet dancer.
I loved to cook as a littlekid.

(02:33):
So that's a little bit about mein a nutshell.

Jamie Flanagan (02:36):
Yeah, you did some uh you did some physical uh
physical fitness kind of stuff,right?

Susan Marano (02:41):
Oh, I do that now.

Jamie Flanagan (02:42):
You do that now, right?

Susan Marano (02:44):
Yes, I'm an A.

Jamie Flanagan (02:47):
Another podcast called The Man Cave Uh Happy
Hour.
And uh Mrs.
Vino, Kristen Carlson, she doesuh she does all the the fitness
bodybuilding stuff.
It's uh wow, it's uh it'samazing.
So you're doing that, you dothat now.

Susan Marano (03:00):
Yeah, I've been doing it for seven years.
It's NPC National PhysiqueCouncil, and uh my it's bikini
class, and I'm proud to announceI always take first or second
place.
Whoo!

Jamie Flanagan (03:12):
All right, congratulations on that.
Uh, but in the animal world,yeah, go ahead.

Susan Marano (03:17):
In the animal, I was gonna say I did that in
memory of my dad.
My dad uh lived two blocks fromthe World Trade Center and he
died of 9-11 related cancers.
So, and it was from all thestuff that came from ground zero
because he only lived twoblocks away.
And I wanted to do something tomemorialize him, and so being
healthy and getting fit is agood way of doing that, yeah,

(03:38):
definitely.

Jamie Flanagan (03:39):
So, but but heading into the animal realm,
um you're an animalcommunicator.

unknown (03:47):
Uh-huh.

Jamie Flanagan (03:48):
So, what is an animal communicator?

Susan Marano (03:52):
Animal communicator is basically an
intuitive or psychic, whateveryou want to call us.
And we basically can speak toanimals on the earth plane as
well as in spirit.
Okay.

Jamie Flanagan (04:03):
All right.
And so um, I I on your on yourlittle profile it said that uh
you'd always thought about beinga veterinarian, but then you're
like, you it was like, well,the idea of putting down dogs
and and and seeing the abuse andthings was just like your heart
couldn't take it.
So you never uh really wentinto the the veterinary field.
Uh but you ended up, when didyou, when did this uh ability um

(04:26):
uh to connect on the on the wayyou do, when did that come to
fruition for you?
When did you realize that?

Susan Marano (04:33):
Well, I think I always had it as far as
intuition, but it came into playaround dating.
And I just I thought to myself,you know, we're women, we
overthink, don't think about ittoo much.
And I just kind of pushed itoff to the back burner.
And then uh I had three cockerspaniels, I had breeded my
cocker spaniel, and she hadthree boys, three girls, three

(04:56):
black, three beige.
She keeps them all, and uh Iwound up um keeping three of
them, and Jack was nine and ahalf, and I was watching it's
it's hard to watch your dogswhen you have more than one.
You open the door, you let themout to do their business, and

(05:17):
you can't watch everybody dotheir business.
So I brought him out day two,and I it looked like he was
going to the bathroom, lookedlike he was urinating, and I
didn't see anything coming out.
And I called my girlfriend, sheis a veterinurologist, Anchor,
very, very brilliantveterinarian.

(05:38):
And she said, bring him in.
And I said, You know, I havepet insurance, I'm just gonna
drop them off and I'll pick themup.
It's probably a stone becauseI've been an I'm a registered
nurse for 25 years.
So I kind of thought I knewwhat it was.
So when I went in there, theyasked me not to leave and they
called me back to the ultrasoundroom, and he had a mass on his

(06:01):
spleen.
And they said at that time thatit had metastasized to the
liver.
So she told me I had to put himdown right then and there.
She said, you know, when helooks like he's gonna pass out,
it's because he's bleedinginternally.
The mass, every time the massgrows and it grows really fast,
um, that he bleeds internally,he pinks out a little bit, and
then he, you know, the bodyabsorbs it and he's okay.

(06:23):
And I told her, I said, This isthe love of my life.
I cannot just put him downright now.
I have to bring him home.
And he's got to say goodbye tomy son and his mother.
And so I brought him home andmy girlfriend called me.
She had a dog that had thyroidcancer, and she was at the
veterinary office, and she said,Dr.
Holly wants you to bring Jackdown.

(06:44):
She said, A lot of the timesit's a metal diagnosis.
So I went down there with allhope in my heart, and she put
him on an ultrasound, and shesaid, Unfortunately, he does
have metastasis.
And she said, if he didn't, wecould she basically said we
could crack his chest and takethe spleen and buy you six

(07:04):
months.
And that that in itselfhorrified me.
Because that would be soselfish.
To me, that would be so likethis is my best friend in the
whole world, and I could neverdo that to him.
So she told me that I had towrap my head around it because
he would basically hemorrhageout of every orifice that he
had, and it wouldn't be a goodending for either one of us.
So she put him in a littlehurricane jacket that she took

(07:26):
off her own dog and sent mehome.
And uh, I had three days and Icalled lax of love and I had to
put him down.
And it was sad because thatnight he had a couple of licks
of wine from a wine glass.
He ate a piece of pizza, andum, it he appeared to not be in
any distress, but just thethought of what could happen is

(07:50):
the reason that I I I had tocome to terms with it.
And it was hot, it was it wasdifficult.
So my girlfriend runs um GimmeShelter.
It's a 501c3 animal rescue.
It was out of uh Sarasota,Florida.
She was having a big open housethat night and a big event, and
I couldn't go.
And she said, Well, Wendy, umWendy Cooper's gonna be there,

(08:11):
she's an animal communicator,let me talk to her for you.
So, fast forward, got Wendy,did a reading with Jack in my
arms, and basically she told mehe's ready to go.
And she communicated with thefish in my tank and the other
pets that I had in the house.
And it was it was very, veryhard.

(08:32):
And at this point, I had notembraced my ability yet.
And I put Jack down and I hadWendy come to the house.
And I was angry.
I just wanted my dog back.
I just wanted, I I never evenheard of an animal communicator,
I didn't even know what it was,you know.

(08:52):
And when she, you know, whenJack didn't come through the way
I expected him to, I just wasangry and upset and we didn't
get anywhere with it.
And well, I started to feelthings and see things and read
things.
I had another uh communicationsuh suggestion with um

(09:13):
Jacqueline Smith.
She's written a great book.
She deals with animals inspirit on the earth plane, she
does wild animals, trees,insects.
And she said the first thingout of her mouth was, Well, I
don't think you should be tooupset because your dog is gonna
reincarnate in the spring.
And I said, What?
Really?

(09:34):
I said, you know, I had heardthe word, I never gave it much
credence.
And she basically said, um,yeah, he's gonna come back in
the spring.
And I'm like, oh no, I go, howwill I find him?
How will I know it's him?
Where will I know to live?

Jamie Flanagan (09:46):
Yeah, it's it's a big wild world of dogs.
How are you gonna how are yougonna find Jack 2.0?

Susan Marano (09:51):
Right.
Gosh, I was I was worried aboutthat.
And then I I proceeded to askher, can I call you next week so
I can talk to him again?
And she's like, No, we kind ofhave to let him heal in the weed
and he'll be back.
So, with that being said, Istarted a Facebook group for
people who had lost their pets.
Pet loss, grief support, animalcommunication, and

(10:11):
reincarnation.
And as people started to jointhe group and post pictures, I
would get these little movies inmy head.
And I'm like, what's going onhere?
And I would type in, oh, well,I see this room with blue
curtains.
Oh my God, that's my mom'shouse.
And I was like, where is thiscoming from?
I'm like, where am I pullingthis from?

(10:31):
Like, how do I know this?
And it progressively gotstronger and stronger.
And then one morning I had wokeup, and this is probably about
maybe three weeks after Jack hadcrossed, and Buffy and Brandy
were sleeping in the bed, and Ihad gotten coffee, and I put it
next to me at the bedside.
And I looked, I went to get thecoffee and I looked down, and

(10:53):
there was Jack.
And I was like, That's what Isaid, huh?
And Buffy, Buffy had a littlecyst on her head, and I looked
down and it wasn't Buffy.
And I literally fell out of thebed, and I said, Oh my god, I
miss you so much.
And I started to cry.
And no sooner than I started tocry that it turned in now.

(11:16):
It was Buffy.
And I was told I called, Icalled uh Wendy and I told Wendy
what had happened.
And she said to me, the reasonthat he didn't stay is because
you embraced it with sadness andnot gratitude.

(11:36):
She said they don't want you tofeel pain, they don't want you
to feel sadness.
And if them coming to you doesthat, they go as fast as they
can.
So that was my first realexperience.
A couple of nights went by, andthe dogs were in the bed with

(11:58):
me, and I heard rustling in thegarbage in the kitchen.
And I was like, I was homealone and I was afraid to get
up.
And I was like, I called outfor my son, but he was at work.
And I'm like, Jack.
And I got up and I went intothe kitchen, and there was
nothing going on with thegarbage.
I was like, maybe a raccoon gotin the house.
Who knows?
But then I started to have Istarted to have all those

(12:22):
experiences.
And I had gone to myboyfriend's house that weekend
when he had crossed, and my sonwas home with my other dogs, and
he said to me, Mom, I was goinginto my bedroom and I saw Jack
walk out of the bathroom.
I first I heard water like theywere drinking out of the
toilet.
And Jack was the only one outof the three that drank water

(12:42):
out of the toilet.
So he said, and I walked, Iwalked in the hallway and I
literally saw Jack walking.
And I'm because obviously theapple doesn't fall far from the
tree.
He's got some communicationskills himself.
And then he was then he waswatching TV in the living room,
and I had a big crate where theycould go in and out whenever
they wanted to.
And he goes, Mom, I am sittinghere and I am looking at Jack.

(13:03):
He is laying in the crate.
I'm like, wow.
So it just got stronger andstronger.
And the more people that joinedthe group, now I'm not charging
anybody for anything becauseI'm like, what if I'm wrong?

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah.

Susan Marano (13:15):
What if I'm wrong?
So I called my my psychic, myintuitive, Nora Hooper, and she
said to me, Susan, she said, doyou she said, you pay me, right?
And I said, Yeah.
She goes, Well, what if I'mwrong?
I go, Well, you know, she said,Well, there you go.
You know, you tell people, youknow, don't base your life on

(13:36):
what an intuitive or a psychictells you, but they can give you
pretty good information,especially when things are
coming through really strong.
People always connect.
When I do readings, I mean, Igot a billboard one day with a
big roasted pig with an apple inits mouth.
And I was doing a reading forthis Irish setter named Murphy.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Okay.

Susan Marano (13:58):
And I said to I said to his mom, I go, this is
gonna sound a little weird, butI have to give you what I get.
And I'm seeing this, and she'slike, Oh my god.
She goes, We are driving.
She goes, and that was Murphy'sbest memory.
We had a flavoring reunionevery year, and they would do a
big pig roast within everythingelse that the dog had told me

(14:19):
that was in there.
And she said that was hisfavorite time because he got to
see the whole family.
But we do a big pig roastbarbecue as a family reunion.
So it was really, really kindof cool.
And my ability just gotstronger and stronger.

Jamie Flanagan (14:35):
Wow.
All right.
So so it's like visions, littlemovies, you you you say, and
then you just kind of put thatout for folks and they can
interpret the the way they theway they choose.

Susan Marano (14:47):
Yeah, or sometimes like some of my readings, I do
a five-question reading or a10-question reading, and they
can ask any questions they like.
I only ask them, this is areading for you and your pet.
Some people will come to youand ask you questions to kind of
validate um whether you reallyare a psychic.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah.

Susan Marano (15:09):
Like, what was my dog's favorite holiday?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Sure.

Susan Marano (15:12):
And sometimes sometimes I want to say, did
they tell you what your favoritewhat their favorite holiday
was?

Speaker 2 (15:17):
How do you know?

Susan Marano (15:18):
But yeah, exactly.
So I kind of, you know, I getquestions from them, things, and
you know, people ask a lot ofthe same questions.
Were they in pain?
Do they are they angry at me?
And pets don't have anger, theyare the most loving beings, and

(15:38):
there is no anger.
And they, whatever yourdecisions are, they go with
that.
And a lot of the time, towardsthe end, they rally for us, not
for them.

Jamie Flanagan (15:52):
All right.
So uh, so is it Jack?
So the Rainbow Bridge is not uha one-way street, right?
So so Jack's Jack's back, andyou have pictures of Jack uh
reincarnated.
Um so is that yet another dogwho's you you feel as though
it's it's it's uh Jack 2.0?

Susan Marano (16:14):
Well, when I called Debbie Johnstone, she is
one of the approvedcommunicators for my Facebook
group.
When I called her, she said tome, I had just gotten an iPad as
a gift and it was on the tablewhen I was talking to her.
She goes, Well, the first thingI'm seeing is March 17th, and
I'm like, Okay.
And shh, and I said, she says,Does that mean anything to you?

(16:35):
I said, Um, no.
She goes, Well, it's St.
Patrick's Day.
And I said, Okay, I got alittle Irish in me.
And she said, No.
And she says, I'm seeing acocker spaniel in a uh top hat,
like a cartoon.
And I said, Okay.
And she says, Well, he's gonnabe 45 minutes from you.
No further than 45 minutes fromyou, and that's where you're

(16:58):
gonna find him.
And as she's speaking, I amtyping in my iPad, Cocker
Spaniels, shamrocks, you know,near me or whatever.
And it was just like God justplopped it there.
It came open, the screenopened, and it was um Stanfield

(17:18):
Farms in Lakeland, which wasexactly 48 minutes from my front
door.
Okay, and it said, We havecocker spaniels for March 17th.

Jamie Flanagan (17:26):
Oh well, there you go.

Susan Marano (17:28):
I mean, she was so spot on.
So I started to scroll throughthe site, and all of a sudden
there was a cartoon with acocker spaniel and shamrocks
coming out.
It was all animated.
So as soon as I got off thephone with her, I called Pam,
who was the owner.
And I said, I'm crazy, but mydog is reincarnating to your

(17:49):
litter.
Oh she goes, Oh my god, that'samazing.
I don't think you're crazy.
And I was like, Oh, great.
So, you know, the three thethree months went by really
slow.
And um, I had been datingsomebody, and my mom said to me,
You're never gonna find anybodyto marry you with three dogs.
You better stop with thosedogs.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Right.

Susan Marano (18:10):
So we went to get me and my son went to Lakeland
to pick the dog up, and wewalked in, and there were cocker
spaniels running around allover.
And I was, I was, I had calledWendy, and she goes, Just relax.
He will let you know who it is.
Now, Jack had a funny way oflaying on his side and his ears
would flop up and he would situnder your chair or anywhere

(18:33):
close to you.
So there were so there was, Ithink there was like eight
Cocker Spaniels puppies.
And uh I went and I sat down atthe dining room table with the
the the woman, and I said toher, I don't know that I can
take him home.
And she said, What do you mean?
And I told her, you know, mymom says that this guy's not
gonna marry me, and you know,with all these dogs.

(18:54):
And she goes, Well, I'll puthim back on the website and I'll
return your money.
And she says, We'll find him ahome, don't worry.
So I cried all the way home andI called my dad.
And my dad says, Wait a minute.
So you asked your dog to comeback from the Rainbow Bridge,
yeah, and he's here now, and youwant to send him back.
And he said, Let me tell yousomething, sweetie.

(19:16):
Men are a dime a dozen.
If that's your boy, you need togo get him.
I sent my son.
So I sent my son to get him thenext day, and the rest is
history.
He'll be 13 in January.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Wow.

Susan Marano (19:27):
I am, I am well, and they give you signs.
My birthday is 1111.
My dad was January 1st, 1-1,and Jack uh was born on January
11th.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Okay.

Susan Marano (19:44):
And that's all in the book.

Jamie Flanagan (19:45):
Okay, and that I was gonna say, so let's uh um
let's get to the book, shall we?
Uh, so what is uh now?
I just I I was like I wasgrabbing pictures of my pets to
share with you.

Susan Marano (19:56):
Uh-huh.

Jamie Flanagan (19:57):
Uh that's why I was like, and uh okay.
I would say because you'relike, oh, so I want to show you
the pictures of the pets.
See what see what you get aboutmy my guys.
But uh I just I navigated awayfrom where I wanted to be
through okay to the RainbowBridge and back Jack's home, um,
is is the title of the book.
And that's coming out nextweek, right?

(20:17):
That hits the hits the uhdigital airwaves 1111.

Susan Marano (20:21):
1111 on Kindle.

Jamie Flanagan (20:23):
Okay.
And um can people get a 11?
Some people like the tackle.

Susan Marano (20:28):
Oh, yeah, 1118 will be the paperback.

Jamie Flanagan (20:30):
Nice.
Okay.
All right, and so what arepeople when they pick up uh
Jack's story here to the rainbowbridge and back, what are they
what are they gonna find inthere?

Susan Marano (20:40):
Well, it's it starts, like I said, in the very
beginning when he got sick.
Um, no, actually, it startedbefore that, when he was born.
That's where I started thebook.
And it just goes into I kind ofI created a journal to go with
the book.
It's called Um Whispers of theSoul, Animal Communication and
the 12 Um Universal Laws.

(21:02):
So um, you know, it'smanifestation at its finest.
And one of the things that Ifeel really plays a role in
animal reincarnation is theperpetual transmutation of
energy, which states thatanything that you hold on the
screen of your mind has toproduce in physical form by

(21:23):
universal law.
So the journal that I createdteaches people how to navigate
through the sickness, theillness, the death, and the
possible reincarnation.
And, you know, pets come to ussometimes for them, their higher
self or their life assignment.
And sometimes they come for us.

(21:43):
And people seem to think, youknow, people go through such
grief when a pet dies, butyou're still ultra connected.
I mean, it's consciousness, iswhat the it's it's
consciousness.
And when you get these signs,whether it's a it's a uh a penny
or a feather, my dog would moveenergy.

(22:03):
I had a squirrel outside thatwould just sit there and have
conversations with me for 40minutes.
I'd go sit outside under thetree, and I would be like, oh,
Jack's moving energy.
Brandy would see him, Buffywould see him, and you you can
watch your dogs track throughthe air that they're looking at
something, and it's it's reallykind of neat.

(22:25):
But so it's because everythingis vibrations.
Animals carry and mirror ourenergy.
And I think, well, I don'tthink, I know, I know why Jack
got sick.
I was at that time, I was um Ihad moved back from New Jersey,
I was living in Florida, and Iwas very negative, very
negative, very pessimistic.

(22:47):
And animals will draw from usanything that's negative,
whether it's cancer or beingsick or being pessimistic.
And let's face it, they'retiny, their body can only hold
so much.
And Jack tried to get me to payattention and try to get me to

(23:09):
learn the lessons I needed tolearn.
And the only way to do it is tocross over because I would not
be this person today.
I wrote this book 13 years ago.

Jamie Flanagan (23:19):
You look like you're in a good space.

Susan Marano (23:22):
I am now.
I am now.
But yeah, I mean, but I wouldhave never written a book, I
would have never opened a spacefor people to grieve with
like-minded people.
I tell them, grief is not aplace to unpack your bags and
move in, it's a place to gothrough slowly at your own pace,

(23:42):
and not to let anyone tell youhow to do it because you have to
go through that at your ownpace.
There's just no way to rushthrough it.
But there is yeah, yeah, youthere's no way, there's no way
around it.
You have to go through it, youhave to feel it, you have to

(24:03):
embrace it.
But with animal communication,when you sit with the
communicator and they tell youthe things that Wendy told me,
like just I needed to calm down,I needed to slow down, I needed
to, I had angst in my gut.
And these were all things thatwere true.
And that's what Jack came tohelp me work through in this

(24:25):
lifetime.
But nine and a half yearswasn't enough because I wasn't
paying attention.

Jamie Flanagan (24:31):
Ah, so no, I get what you're talking about.
Like I you you you said you youyou sensed him or you saw saw
him.
Um, I had I had a guy Kirby,um, and he was with me 18, 19
years.
Uh awesome, awesome littledude.

Susan Marano (24:48):
Oh, looks like my Toby.

Jamie Flanagan (24:50):
Yeah, it was uh Kirby.
And uh so he passed away thereat uh at home.
He was uh uh you know just uhkidney problems, and we were
juicing him, right?
Giving him giving him uh givinghim water, you know, giving him
a bag, and and and you know,and the vet was uh, you know, as
long as he's enjoying himself,you know.
Hey, you know, so we'd we'dkeep him hydrated and uh he was

(25:13):
good for a while and finallyjust uh said all right, see you
later.
So that was hard.
So we didn't get another catfor uh for for some time.
But uh I live in a very oldhouse.
Um and there's there's there'suh my wife is a little bit more
in tune to this than than I am.
Uh but it 1831.
So when I say old, it's old.

(25:33):
1831.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, wow.

Jamie Flanagan (25:36):
You know, before Michigan was a state, before
the civil war.
I mean it's it's old.
Uh so it is so there there'sstuff going on in the house, but
I will see out of the corner ofmy eye, uh, before we got
before we got our new guy, uhPercy, uh, I would see what I I
you know somebody moving, right?
Um, not but like a cat, right?

(25:58):
And so I'm like, is that what'sthat?
Uh you know, so I was like, Ithought he was around, I thought
he was kind of kicking around.

Susan Marano (26:06):
Absolutely.
Was was he 19?

Jamie Flanagan (26:08):
Yeah, yeah.

Susan Marano (26:10):
He was 19, yeah.
Because I I was getting thenumbers one and nine around him,
and sometimes when I getnumbers, it can be the gotcha
date or the the actual birthdate, but um his personality was
more like a dog, yeah, yeah,yep, yep.
Okay, yeah, because I'm I'mseeing him following you around.

(26:31):
And do you have a room that hascurtains in it?
Long curtains, like where youcould hide behind it, or maybe
it's a door, it's dark.

Jamie Flanagan (26:40):
Yep, yep, yep.

Susan Marano (26:41):
There's there's and and I feel like that's where
it's a place where he used tosit in your house, but I'm
seeing like a curtain.
I don't know if it's a sheercurtain, but the room is dark,
yeah, and it's like behind adoor.

Jamie Flanagan (26:56):
So I lived, we and I had a house on our own for
a while.
Uh and then um I I met my wifeColleen, and uh, you know, she
had a dog and I had the cat, andwe all and and and a son, which
I got was great too.
Uh, and so we all cametogether.
Uh and so yeah, Kirby and Ilived in in a house by ourselves

(27:19):
for a while, and then uh whenwe got all got together, we got
another house.
But uh so he might have been inthe basement at the old house
or uh behind the curtains in thenew house.
This is our new guy.
This is uh I don't know if youcan see how blue his eyes are,
but he's got blue, blue, blue,blue eyes.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Really?
He's beautiful.

Jamie Flanagan (27:39):
So he's like uh an American short hair, but he's
got kind of those he's gotthose kind of Siamese colors to
his, you know, the tips on theears, and the but he's got the
ring on the tail like anAmerican short hair, but he's
got some kind of Siamese colors,and he's got the blue, blue
eyes.
So we're thinking I we'reguessing he's a mix of you know,
we got him from a rescue.

(27:59):
Yeah, I mean I always that'swhat I said.

Susan Marano (28:01):
I was just asking you if he was a rescue, because
I I'm not getting you're hisfirst owner.

Jamie Flanagan (28:06):
No, we got him as a kitten, so I mean, you
know, he was well, whoeverdropped him off.
He was a little poof poof whenwe got him, you know.
He was a little itty bitty.
Uh, but yeah, so he was uh justan itty bitty.
Um so yeah, so he's uh he's aton of fun.
He's again pretty dogly.
He'll play fetch, he's great.
Our old dog wouldn't the newdog there is kind of nosing in.

(28:28):
Uh yeah, yeah, I see that.
I got questions about her.
Uh so but uh yeah, so Percy'suh Percy's he's he's my guy.

Susan Marano (28:38):
Um Colleen's you let her get into, your dog.
She will get into anything youwill let her get into, and
anything that you don't want herin, she'll be in.
Um the cat the cat toleratesher.

Jamie Flanagan (28:55):
Yeah, he's uh he's right now he's I think he's
12.
He's 12-ish.
Oh, okay.
And she is just over a year.
So so we got her.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Uh-huh.

Jamie Flanagan (29:07):
We got her at um about eight months.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Uh-huh.

Jamie Flanagan (29:13):
Right.
So this is her like rightpretty much right when we got
her.
This is uh this is a few monthsback, right?
Uh she's put on a little moreweight.
Um, so we got her at eightmonths, and we don't know much
about her first eight months.
Um what uh are you gettinganything about her first eight
months?

Susan Marano (29:34):
Uh I'm getting what I'm getting is an elderly
person around her, and it wastoo much.
It was too much, and they couldthey couldn't.
That's intuitively what I'mfeeling.
And she's in that pic in thatpicture there, she's still not
sure where she is.

Jamie Flanagan (29:50):
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.

Susan Marano (29:52):
You know, uh emotionally because she was she
was connected to that person,but that person was too it was
the person was.
tool to take care of her.

Jamie Flanagan (30:01):
Okay.

Susan Marano (30:02):
You know, I think what I'm feeling is intuitively
that she was given as a gift.
You know, people don't do a lotof homework and you know, oh
grandma's old.
Let's bring her a puppy.
It'll make her happy.
Do dogs that's what okay.

Jamie Flanagan (30:19):
Do dogs know what brand they are?
Do they do they know what breedwhat brand?
What breed they are?
Do do they know what uh breedthey are?
Does she know what breed theyare?

Susan Marano (30:30):
No, I you know when I communicate with animals
they usually um give me sizelike when they want to come back
I want to come back smallerbecause I want to be a lap dog.
You know so no I don't I'venever gotten a dog that says I'm
a German shepherd I want tocome back as a German shepherd.
Okay.
You know I usually get smalllarge right um and some pets
come back as a completelydifferent animal.

(30:51):
Some come back as a cat somecome back as a bird.

Jamie Flanagan (30:54):
All right Susan I I lied to you.
This isn't my dog.
No I'm teasing it is my dog Idid lie to you though but I do
we did know a little bit abouther background but I didn't know
uh about the circumstances ofher background and that's kind
of what I wanted so here's whathere's what we do know about uh
Raina and that was the the nameshe came with um and we're just
like all right well we're notgonna rename her because Raina's

(31:16):
not bad so we're gonna stickwith that so uh this is what we
know about Raina is that uh uhuh an older woman owned her and
couldn't take care of heranymore and gave her to her
nieces her nieces breed her hernieces her nieces breed dogs so
from what they tell us she's aGerman shepherd pit bull mix is

(31:39):
what they said but we don't seeany pit bull in her i see husky
and and the the nieces breedhuskies there you go somebody
had a little slip so i that wasour our thing oh i know she's a
she's she's a little sweetheartshe's a lover yeah look at her

(31:59):
with a little tongue is thatgreat so um but yeah so so the
the the aunt couldn't keep herand and they gave her to the
nieces uh and they breed dogsand so they had they had several
dogs around and she didn't getalong and the other dogs didn't
get along with her so they hadto give her up uh and they put
her up on pet finder and that'swhere Colleen found her uh and

(32:24):
she said look at how sweet sheis and we were looking for a
medium dog right and because ourour last dog was uh again an
another high as 57 mixed breeduh so she was a great great dog
um and uh so we were looking foryou know just a medium size not
that's gonna get too big but nonothing that you're gonna carry
around in a you know right in apurse pocket or nothing uh so

(32:48):
it it you know I was like oh pitbull mix and I'm like because
it we're in Metro Detroit andeverything yeah everything in
Detroit pit bull pit bull pitbull but and then I saw the
pictures I'm like well thatdoesn't look anything like a pit
bull um you know because she'sgot the snout right so we're
like I'm like all right welllet's go let's go check her out
and then they brought her to usand she had like feces all caked

(33:09):
on her tummy and we're like allright this dog's coming home
with us regardless right she'suh she's right she's coming home
with so um we overfed her andover drank her this as soon as
we got her home of course that'swe do uh but yeah we loaded
that cannon is what we did uh sothat took a few days to calm

(33:30):
down but uh yeah so um so butshe was just like she was eating
and it was like ravenous likeshe didn't know if she was going
to get to eat again you knowit's like so that that whole
that whole I'm not sure uh youknow it what's going on and she
we took her to the vet and thevet you know while we gave her a
nice bath and uh I took her tothe vet within a day or two and

(33:52):
the vet was like yeah you knowshe's not quite malnutritious
but malnutrition but uh she's onthe on the border of it she's
not dehydrated which was good uhshe was about 34 pounds right
well she's up to 59 now nice Ilove that yeah so she's uh she's
put on a little weight which isgood which is fine so it's not

(34:13):
good for my shoulder because sheprobably pulls it right out of
the socket but uh yeah so she'sgood so that was a thing so she
did you were you were very rightabout that uh uh that she was
an older woman and uh she wasactually gifted back to her
nieces and the nieces justcouldn't take care of her and uh
just because of thedisagreements with the other
dogs and we really think thatshe was kind of I and but she's

(34:35):
super skittish and it's like Idon't know I don't know why but
she's like she gets like supersuper skittish.
Well you only have one dogright yeah yeah yeah what about
food aggression no nope I canyou know I can walk right up and
I can put my hand in her bowlor you know I can move her from
her bowl or take her to it anduh the cat he's a jerk he'll

(35:00):
like walk between the wall andher bowl while she's trying to
eat just to be in cats you knowhe's like just I love that
either you saw him sitting onthe couch I want nothing to do
with you leave me alone rightexactly that's exactly what I
picked up she's like I'mtolerating you I'm tolerating
you yeah at best but I feel alsothat where she was the weight

(35:26):
problem was because of all theother dogs.
She was not aggressive sotherefore everybody ate and she
would get what was left whichreally wasn't much you can see
her hand she's a skinny minihere but uh she's got she's got
some meat on the board beautifuldog she is a good looking pop
man she even she even looks likeshe has a little bit of uh
Australian cattle dog in herthat is uh what um our previous

(35:51):
dog was and that's kind of whatdrew Colleen to picking her out
is because it's like oh thoseare about the right shape and
size and that was kind of Zoe'sshape and size and uh yeah so
that's what uh just do one ofthose DNA one of those 23andme
things on your dog I I thoughtyou could tell you know the DNA
how does she identify identifyas uh you know German Shepherd

(36:12):
or so yeah we're gonna we'regonna I well I want to do that
colleen Colleen thinks it's allmalarkey so um oh I don't I
don't I I I don't uh they tellme my my job Jack is full breed
cocker spaniel and I can tellyou when I went to pick him up
the woman breed was breedingcocker spaniels and standard

(36:33):
poodles.

Susan Marano (36:34):
I am very sorry you saw the cover of the book
and and maybe you've seen somepictures of Jack Jack looks like
a mini golden doodle so I thinkone of the poodles had a slip
so I really do want to do theDNA on him.
See he doesn't look like acocker.
Now he did in his first life onthe cover of the book which is
not the cover.
We just finalized the cover soum but uh but yeah uh I think

(36:59):
that there was a little slipthere.

Jamie Flanagan (37:00):
I guarantee if I do his his DNA he's cocker
poodle not pure breed cocker butum I'm also getting around your
dog that she she's using theword queen I am the queen if she
is she get she gets whatevershe wants it's her way and she

(37:20):
gets her way no that's that'smom that's what I'm getting
that's what I'm drawing from herthat's not true she does not
she does not get her way no shewants to get her she wants to
get her way but she's uh shedoes I mean we they they're not
they're you know so I mean we weshe's got a lot of toys um but
that's just because it's funnywell hence henceforth the queen

(37:41):
title yeah yeah yeah well and soand it's like we are waiting
trying to get her spade and thenyou know we finally just did it
so she's uh she's a week awayfrom you know she's a week past
her surgery so she finally tookthe call of shame off today and
uh so it's another week of oftaking it easy so because we
would play fetch every day rightand so she's just she's just

(38:02):
bringing her ball to me likeevery day going come on dude
we're supposed to be outsidethrowing this what are you doing
I'm like you can't you can'tfor another week so she's like
so bummed she's like why are youguys being so I know and I'm
like that's so hard you knowit's you don't remember but you
had a big surgery that's whyyour tummy's all shaved girl so

(38:22):
yeah exactly and they can pullthose stitches real easy yeah so
we'll go play in the yard nextweek but uh all right so if
someone wants a reading do youdo readings I mean do you do it
through your website or just forfriends what do you do um on
the website there's a spot wherethey can contact me and they
can tell me what they're goingthrough my my email address is

(38:43):
there and they can send me a uhan inquiry where I can do I do
it like I said I do a fivequestion reading 10 question
reading and then I have apackage of three people going
through reincarnation and I tellpeople all the time you don't
have to spend money they won'tlet you miss it I promise you
but people are just like thelike I was in the beginning I
was like what do you mean I'mnot gonna miss it?

Susan Marano (39:04):
What is it going to just fall out of the sky into
my lap and I just startedreading everything that I could
I started reading everything Icould and I um took some classes
with Danielle McKinnon who's aalso a very known um animal
psychic and I just you knowstrengthened that spiritual gut

(39:24):
and that muscle just gotstronger and stronger and I just
kept getting more and more andnow it's you know it's funny
because he'll be 13 and he's gothe had undiagnosed glaucoma in
the left eye and this is a dogthat I you know he gets anything
he wants if he needs I wasgoing to take him out of the
cataract app.
That's how we found out and mymom goes you're gonna spend

(39:46):
$5,000 on a cataract I said um Iknow that when I can't find my
glasses I'm not a I'm not apleasant person to be around.
So I want him to be able tosee.
So I brought him in and theytold me that you know outside
the fact that it was $5,000 thatum if they did it because of
the glaucoma his vitreous humorwas squirting out of the eye

(40:08):
slowly and that most likely thecataract surgery would cause
them to have to down the roadtake the eye out.
So when a veterinarian tellsyou we don't want your $5,000
you know it's a good doctor andyou wound up in the right place.
So I'm just you know we've hadour conversations I've told Jack
I want him to stay till he's22.
He keeps telling me 17 uh I'llbe I'll be grateful for every

(40:32):
day I get all right uh susiespeaks to animals it's the
number two susie speakstoanimals.com is that the best
that's the best spot for peopleto connect yep and they can come
to the Facebook group umthere's a few questions they
have to answer which is nothingmajor you know why do you want

(40:54):
to join are you an animalcommunicator or a psychic and
you know just to keep the groupsafe um there are people out
there that do readings thatdon't really have the ability so
I try to keep the group safe umand like I said the the
communicator who actually foundhim logistically Debbie

(41:14):
Johnstone she's out of Arizonashe did the forward for the book
and um she she's amazing andshe's one of the communicators
in the group so it's importantsome you might got on the phone
with somebody and you don'tresonate with them.
You know I mean have you evergone to like a doctor and be
like I'm not seeing him again Idon't like him.
Yeah so that's why I have a fewdifferent communicators in the

(41:37):
group because I want people toresonate with the person that's
reading them.
And um so I have Debbie DebbieJohnstone and Wendy Cooper both
have great websites but they cango right to the Facebook page
and they can uh ask to join anduh I have a file tab where I
have prayer cards, uh templatesthat you can say um I have house

(42:00):
cleansings, I have umrecommendations from people who
I've read in the past and umyeah I'm really excited about
the book.
I I I've always said I wantedto write a book and it sat in
this plastic book binder foryears and I just so happen to be
in the right room at the righttime.
SoulSparks Press is um thepublishing house uh my wonderful

(42:23):
publisher Deepa Kassandu she'samazing um we just had the book
launch in New York in a littleplace called La Bibliothèque and
uh we had a four authors totalshe's had some um award-winning
you know New York Timesbestsellers and so and she's a
new she's a new publishing houseso she's doing really wonderful

(42:45):
things and I hope to write achildren's book next oh nice
okay awesome yeah all rightsusan uh we'll put links to uh
all those things down in the theshow notes and uh people can
connect that way and uh thanksfor uh you know helping me if
you will if you will send meyour address I would love to

(43:08):
send you a copy when it comesout all right brilliant we will
do that um anything elseanything else people need to
know before we take off herejust like I said grief is not a
place to stay you have to youhave to go through it you have
to feel the feelings but theynever really leave you and one
thing that I will tell theaudience if you have a pet that

(43:29):
has left you when you go to bedtonight I want you to get in bed
and close your eyes I want youto state the day the date and
the time today Monday November4th um Johnny I want you to come
to me in my dreams and connectwith your heart center think
about that pet as you fallasleep they may not come to you

(43:50):
tonight but I guarantee youthey'll come to you soon and
personally you'll be like rightin my face because that's where
you sleep right on my chestbreathing on me.
Oh I love that I love thatthat's great.

Jamie Flanagan (44:03):
All right Susan thank you for having me yep and
uh everybody please uh likesubscribe leave a comment all
those podcast things and all thepodcast places uh we'll see you
and we'll do it all again veryvery soon
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