Communication with All Life, Revelations of an Animal Communicator, by Joan Ranquet (Hay House, 2007)
One day I was at a barn working with a trainer and her horses and clients. She was having the most trouble with a tall, striking thoroughbred. He was very athletic yet he didn’t like to jump. The horse showed me how he had crumpled out of a starting gate and that’s how he injured his right hind leg. I didn’t know at the time that the trainer didn’t believe me as there was no indication of an injury. She called the original owner and was told that yes, the horse had a terrible accident at the race track; he had gotten his right hind leg stuck in the starting gate. The original owner then sent the X-rays. It explained why he didn’t want to jump. The rest of that story gets better. They were more careful around this leg with the knowledge and yet he still didn’t want to jump. So about two years later, I bought him. We don’t jump!
Countless times when I visit a couple, one is more skeptical. I’ll just say it―usually it’s the husband. They keep their mouths shut and hang out in the doorway with their arms crossed, ready to doubt every tidbit of information I give them. In the end, their arms unfold, they join us and say that the story the dog told me was what they had pictured, or they confirm for me that the situation I’ve revealed is true. So many times they’ll say, “That’s exactly what I pictured.” Even the most skeptical will admit to seeing pictures or images as I had described them.
Meanwhile, the husband may go back to the office the next day and say that his wife just wasted their money, that’s if he even admits that an animal communicator came over. Deep in his heart, though, ultimately I confirmed for him that he had a profound communication with his beloved animal.
At the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, they have been studying a Border Collie named Rico. Rico’s people brought him to the Institute because he knew up to 200 simple words. Rico averages picking up on 37 out of 40 items. And he can even give them to specific people. There were many tests to make sure that this was not another Clever Hans.
Clever Hans was a horse in the early 1900s in Germany that could do mathematical equations. At least, so it seemed. His owner did brainy (for a horse!) little math tasks like, “If today is Tuesday, how many days until Sunday?” By tapping with his hoof, Clever Hans would count it out. People were astounded at this and came in droves to watch. Then other people tried to set up the equations to test him. Clever Hans’ owner was a math teacher. This man would have had math embedded in his thought patterns, seeping out of his cells. Sadly, Clever Hans was not able to perform the same function for other testers and it was assumed that Clever Hans was actually reading the subtle body language of his owner. It was disappointing to all the people that came for miles and miles to see him. But Clever Hans was also so deeply disappointed that he was known for biting his testers!
Back to Rico. Rico has proven that there is reasoning at work. When presented with a new item, he can immediately identify the new item in association with the new word.
Clever Hans illustrated that relationship was everything. Imagine being one of those doubters and feeling so proud that you disproved this big horse’s ability, and then Clever Hans sinks his teeth right into your arm like it was a bright, shiny apple. He knew he was being doubted; and how annoying is that!
Through the work of Clever Hans, science was able to discern a lot about relationship. Scientists are learning quite a lot about how dogs reason through Rico. Both cases are about images being passed back and forth. Clever Hans, he was so in-tune with his person he was able to read him like a book. Rico’s people discovered he knew many words before he was brought to the Institute. In both cases, the animals are pleaser types. (In Clever Hans’ case, maybe only for his person and an open crowd that wanted to be amazed.) The intelligence displayed here is huge.
There are many ways animals in our own home are tracking situations. They track with their senses, of course. They watch for body language, they hear the cadence with which we speak―a different tone will alert them. But make no mistake; they are also tracking the images in our minds.
I love to share this because our animals are always tracking us. Whether they are living in the wild tracking their fearless leader or in a home, looking to see what we are up to, animals follow the emotional leader. I hope you are having a day of being watched!! And I hope you are supplying your animal with endless entertainment. 
Appreciating you, your voice and all you do for your animals,
Joan
Joan Ranquet is an animal communicator, author, TEDx speaker and Founder of Communication with All Life University.
