As requested by readers to post up our experience as soon as possible, here goes.
Elaborated from our post on Pet Expo 2014...
I approached the lady from the booth, she told me that she was an animal communicator, I acted unfamiliar with the terms and politely asked her to explain the meaning of an animal communicator to me. This lady was claimed by a friend of mine to be one of the best in Singapore, this communicator is known to be friendly and do not mind helping her friends to read their dogs for free, we managed to meet this person and find out for ourselves! Though she was not very well spoken, the communicator was friendly and answered all my questions without hesitation, here's our conversation below:
Me:
May I know what is an animal communicator?
Lady:
We speak to animals and understand how they feel, we can also find out about their past life (reincarnation).
Me:
How do you do that?
Lady:
We use telepathy, a technique to read their feelings.
Me:
Telepathy......?
Lady:
Oh! You can too if you want to.
*hands out a leaflet*
You can attend our class to learn how to communicate with your pet.
Me:
Anyone can do that?
Lady:
Yes of course! Everyone can use telepathy.
Me:
*points at Amber*
So you are able to read my dog's character and talk to her?
Lady:
*looks at Amber and smile*
Yes but we don't have this service here, you can contact us at...
*hands out name card*
Me:
So what do you have now?
Lady:
We can help you to calculate if you and your dog are a good match.
Me:
*confuse look*
Lady:
*hand out a list of A4 papers with drawings we don't understand*
These are my clients, those that engaged us to see if their dogs match, to see if they suit each other.
Me:
Okay thanks, we'll give you a call if we want to engage your service.
Lady:
Oh we also have photo reading service, you can SMS or email me your dog's photo and we can read for you.
Me:
Photo? How do you do that?
Lady:
Yes, we can read your dog even through photos.
Me:
Isn't it better to read my dog now, in real life?
Lady:
*pauses for a moment*
Yes we also provide private sessions if you like.
Me:
*looks interested*
So who is the communicator, is it you?
Lady:
Yes it's me.
Me:
I might sign up for the private session, but...maybe you can roughly read my dog now? Please?
Lady:
Oh okay, hmm..
*reach down and pat Amber*
She is a guai (obedient) girl.
Me:
*Nods*
Lady:
She is very guai (obedient), but she is timid.
Me:
*continue to nod as if it was true*
Lady:
She needs to socialize more because she is very timid, but she is a guai (obedient), quiet and calm girl. She is also guai (obedient) at home. She is young, very young..
Me:
*pauses for a moment*
How old do you think she is?
Lady:
I know she is very young... I think... 1 year old? Or less..
Me:
Eh....
Lady:
Hmm.. Correct? No?
Me:
Oh yes, you are correct. How did you do that?
Lady:
I can feel her energy and sense her using telepathy, if you sign up, you can know more about your dog!
Me:
Thank you so much, we'll contact you again soon.
This was how the conversation ended.
For those who know Amber, you should understand her character is not at all like what was described. Before we spoke to the communicator, Amber was actually bored of the event and most of her energy was drained, we tied her hair and walked her for a couple of minutes so as to get her calm to participate in the photo taking session. We just happened to notice the communicator while the photo booth was on hold, at this point of time Amber had stopped rushing towards people, she was sitting still and not moving at all even when the communicator smiled at her, she was stable. As the communicator reached her hands towards Amber, she simply licked her hands a couple of times and just stared at her.
As much as I enjoyed talking to the communicator, I knew that there was nothing she could've said to impress us, I very much understood the fact that psychics who claim that they got the information through "telepathy" are actually nothing more than what the person feels when he/she sees a dog, plus random guesses of course. Amber was obviously read based on the impression she gave, she was calm and quiet at that point of time because she was simply tired, the communicator didn't know that and straight away read her through her body language and facial expression, thinking that this was her true personality and then convert words into something "psychic" when we simply acted as if we were impressed.
We'll break down into the answers we got from the communicator below:
"She is obedient"
Most of the time, Yes. This is only because we trained her since young but that is not her character.
"She is timid"
No, if anyone had met Amber, they should know that she is one of the friendliest dog around. Amber love dogs, she loves human even more, you just need to reach your hand or call her name and Amber will run to you and give you kisses, unless she is tired of course.
"She is calm"
No. Amber is a high energy dog, she gets excited easily and has a lot of stamina for her size.
"She needs to socialize more"
Just go to our YouTube page and watch Amber's videos, she meets and socialize with different dogs almost on a daily basis, we bring her down for walks every single day and even allow her to interact with passerby and she enjoys it, so answer is No.
"She is very young, 1 year old"
Amber is almost 2.5 years old. Amber couldn't have said this to the communicator, or maybe, Amber's mathematics failed.
As you can see, out of the 5 readings this communicator made, 4 were wrong. I had expected it to be at least 50% accurate, to be frank, we went in with an opened mind even though we do not believe in dog communicators, however this is our first experience and we were pretty excited to know what they had to say about our dog. Overall we found this to be a good experience, the lady was really nice so we have no complains, we do believe there are cases whereby some people really believe that they have some sort of miracle powers, they use whatever they feel on first sight and assume this is it - for example, reading a dog's age based on feeling and size, thus these people do not even know what they are doing is wrong.
Anyway, this experience gave us better assurance in what we believe in, we as dog lovers always push our limits to learn new things, we experience, learn and move on, keeping information that are useful and putting aside those that aren't, we believe that learning things that we like and dislike will give us better knowledge in different areas and make us better at what we do. We hope you have enjoyed this post!
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