By Anne Salisbury, Ph.D. & Greg Meyerhoff

Go Intuition Newsletter www.GoIntuition.com

In this series we talk with pets, whose names have been changed, to see what they have to say. Here is an interesting pet psychic reading that we gave.

Sylvester enjoys communicating with Greg Meyerhoff and Anne Salisbury during his pet psychic reading.

Note: To learn about the steps we follow in our readings, see 1) “The 7 Steps in Pet Psychic Readings.” To learn more about what you can do, see 2) “The 7 Things to Help You Communicate with Your Pets.” Find these at GoIntuition.com under Articles - Newsletters

Question: Why does my dog get aggressive when he’s on a leash? When I take him out he lunges and growls at other dogs. This is a problem. My other dog is doesn’t do that.

Anne & Greg: Sylvester feels he has to do this in order to claim his space. He keeps showing us images of being a free agent on the streets in circumstances where he had to take care of himself. He says he has had nobody to rely on in the past. He was it. He had to be responsible for himself. He was a free agent who just wandered around.

Sylvester really wants you to know that he thought he was doing the right thing by claiming his space. He did not mean any harm to you by growling and lunging at other dogs.

Owner: Well that’s so interesting because Sylvester was found wandering the streets of Denver on his own. They assumed he had been on the streets for a long time. I adopted him seven weeks ago.

Anne & Greg: So let’s explain to him that he can relax. He is in a different situation now. He is no longer a free agent. Instead, he is a team player now and he has a new team leader – that’s you!

Let’s all flash him the image that he is meant to be at the bottom of the pyramid now with you at the top. You are in charge and he can relax. Can you truly be in charge for him? He needs to know that somebody is in charge so that he can relax when you both are out on the streets.

Owner: Yes, I can do that.

Anne & Greg: Great. He is now showing us the reason why he really hates the leash. He feels defenseless and restrained on it – he feels as though he can’t defend himself on a leash. In the past, before you adopted him, he was bitten on his back left side by another dog while on a leash. He didn't feel as though he took care of himself very well under that situation, and he doesn’t want it to be repeated. He considered that situation to be dangerous and unsuitable for him. He wants to protect himself better now.

Owner: Oh, that's so interesting because just recently a child came up and put her hand on his back left hip and he wheeled around and all most bit her. I had never seen him do that before. But then nobody had ever come up from behind and touched him like that either.

Anne & Greg’s Summary: Shelter animals often have a history that takes some time to heal. Their current behaviors can be justified and expected given their past. Sylvester learned that this was a new situation that required new rules of teamwork. He no longer had to defend his territory the same way he had in the past.