If you take care of your pets in a holistic way, and take them to your holistic vet regularly, you might come across the topic of "animal communicating" sooner or later. This has intrigued me for many years. Although dogs and cats don't speak our languages, the idea that our pets may somehow understand what we say to them always amuses me.

Marta Williams, an animal communicator, advises in her book Learning Their Language: Intuitive Communication with Animals and Nature that we should talk to our animals before leaving the house --- to tell them where you are going, why, how long you will be gone, and when you will return. The author tells us to speak to our animals normally, as if we were talking to a person. She believes that animals can understand the concept of time as we do. Also, she tells us that while we are away, we can tune in emotionally and mentally to our animals, send them our love and account of what we are doing, as well as reminding them when we are coming back home.

I often read about this kind of advice, and certainly have seen many pet owners who always talk to their pets as they talk to people. Such pet owners claim that their pets can understand what they say to them. I believe animal communication in a broad sense takes place every day with our pets, whether we are aware of it or not.