This is a little mare I rescued from a herd of horses that was headed for the auction block last October if not removed from the ranch they lived on by November 1st. This meant that probably at least half of them would end up […]

It’s been a year and a half since I left my home state, Texas, for good, and hauled 17 animals and myself to our new abode in the revered Galisteo Basin, on 40 acres just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. I’d been looking at […]

The larger question is whether animals CAN be “one-person” individuals. And yes, of course they can. They come in as many different personality types as we do,  so why should they be any different? I just spoke to an aging show jumper — “Cinder” (to […]

Boy, talk about one hot topic! Whether to breed puppies, kittens, foals, birds . . . anything . . . is about as controversial as it gets. I think if you got the proponents of each side of this argument in the same room it […]

I promise to keep this short. And will try to be not-boring. The down and dirty version of why the superfood blue-green algae Aphanizomenon flos-aquae is good for you and your animals, in 25 words or less, is (and I promise not to use that […]

If you’re an animal communicator, you’re almost certainly what’s known as an empath. An empath is someone who can pick up empathically the feelings of another. It’s kind of like vicariously experiencing the thoughts or feelings of someone else without having been given any objective […]

I think this is one of, if not THE, hardest things about having animals in your life. Watching as they grow old and then going through the end-of-life vigil with them. And of course it applies to all animals, not just dogs. It is such […]

WEEKEND BLOGS ARE DEVOTED TO HEALTH AND HEALING. THIS POST ON HEALTHY BACTERIA WAS WRITTEN BY MY ALGAE UPLINE,  ALAN JOEL, AND I HAVE ADDED A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT HOW THE TOPIC IS RELEVANT TO THE HEALTH OF YOUR ANIMALS. The Power of Acidophilus Acidophilus […]

Some people like to have their animal communicator ask their dog what color his food bowl is. I call these kinds of questions “fortune telling” questions. These people give virtually no information whatsoever about their animal except vital statistics and then expect the communicator to […]

We all know how, when we’re  really sick, anything and everything in life feels insurmountable. You have a high fever, or a migraine headache, or you’re throwing up and having diarrhea at the same time.  Even thinking about a routine day or going to work […]