I Talk to Animals

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Samantha is an "animal therapist and psychic" who has convinced skeptical pet owners, zoo keepers, and race horse trainers that she really can "talk" to their animals. Here we see her at work counselling race horses in need of leisure time, "depressed "cats, and negotiating with naughty ants. And we hear from owners and trainers who describe how their animals' behavior changed following Samantha's sessions, and how she told them things about the animals that she "could not have known" — unless the animals told her themselves.
Linda Dubler, Curator of Film at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, says, "Witty and understated, Peter Friedman’s I TALK TO ANIMALS hardly seems the sort of documentary one would call subversive. But if we accept the essence of Friedman’s work, it is not merely subversive but revolutionary, for it tests the very foundations of our experience of consciousness and our relationship with the natural world. What begins as a quasi-comedy (What else would you call the saga of Casey, the depressed, unemployed cat?), deepens into an almost religious meditation on humankind’s vanity and isolation. Samantha Khury isn’t a specialist in myths or anthropology, and happily, Friedman trot out a crew of academicians who are. But her remarkable bond with animals harkens back to some very primal places, and her apparent communications carry with them an array of provocative questions. Khury’s talent is so patently eccentric that it can only strike us as funny at first. Friedman acknowledges the humor, but deflects it partially onto Samantha’s clients. You have to belief Frank though, the professional racehorse trainer. When he vouches for Khury’s abilities, you have to wonder what’s going on. After watching Friedman’s fine portrait she seems a genuine enigma — a mythic seer in the modern world."
"Friedman interviews a clutch of satisfied clients---former skeptics who relate story after compelling story supporting Khury’s mental powers. By the time the film ends, all but the most cynical of souls will be shaking their heads in wonderment and saying, “Well, maybe…” —RIVERFRONT TIMES, ST. LOUIS
“A fascinating, funny, and ultimately unnerving portrait of a woman who makes her living communicating with animals.” —KENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
“Open hearted and open minded but not New Age-gaga, there is a kindness in the film, and a kind of mystery too. It’s also very amusing.” —THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Citation
Main credits
Khury, Samantha (on-screen participant)
Friedman, Peter (film director)
Friedman, Peter (film producer)
Friedman, Peter (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Music composed and performed by Pat Irwin.
Distributor subjects
Animal behaviorKeywords
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(slow electronic music)
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- And you can talk, and
when you sound like a dog,
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and it sounds (indistinct).
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Casey I saw about
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two or three years ago,
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and Casey's family brought me Casey
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in order to heal up a couple
of problems that Casey had.
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Number one, Casey was very, very depressed
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and they couldn't figure
out why he was so depressed
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and he wouldn't come home.
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(Casey meows)
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And they couldn't understand
what was the problem.
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I found out that their
family had a restaurant,
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and that Casey got to go
to work every single day
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with its owners.
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They would go inside and cook the food
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and wait on the people and Casey's job was
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to stay right outside the door
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and greet them as they came in.
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And it was a very important job for Casey.
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Then somebody set fire to that restaurant,
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and Casey had to stay home, he
didn't have a job any longer.
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The animal told me that he needed to work,
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that it was very important
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for him to meet people and go to work.
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(slow music)
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And his owners didn't know that
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that was that important to him.
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- Well, she informed
us that Casey was angry
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because he lost... I think the essence was
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that he lost his job.
I said, "Job, what job?
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This thing's a cat." (laughs)
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The idea of an animal needing
a place to go every day
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to do some kind of work was
certainly a new concept.
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But obviously, for him-
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- But it made a lot of sense,
a lot of sense at the time
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because we did bring him
down, and that was his job.
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- [Bobbie] And according
to Samantha, Casey waited,
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thinking that he would
someday get to go back there
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and get his job back, and
he waited and he waited
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and that time never came.
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(slow orchestral music)
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- [Samantha] Casey became very sad,
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and he went out on his
own and found a new job.
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And his job was at the public library now.
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And he would hang out at
the public library all day
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and greet people.
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- And that was wonderful.
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He was there from the time they opened
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in the morning till the
time they closed at night.
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He spent probably a year there.
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And then at Christmastime,
they put a sign up
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on the front door, and
Casey was no longer allowed
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to go into the library.
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So there we were again,
Casey didn't have a job.
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- [Samantha] And then all
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of a sudden Casey's whole
personality made major changes
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and he became extremely sad,
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kind of like, you know how you
feel when you're unemployed?
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The pits, well, Casey was
a little bit in the pits
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because he couldn't find a new job.
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So we literally created a new job for him.
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And now he goes and he
visits these older people
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that are lonely, every day now.
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(slow orchestral music)
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- I felt a little bit skeptical at first,
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but there were certain revelations
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that she made concerning these animals
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that she wouldn't have known
about, and I knew about,
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that there would be no way
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that she could have in any way fabricated.
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- The thing that convinced me was,
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when we actually were in
the presence of the goats,
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and she began to relate to us events
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that they in turn were relating to her.
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And the nature of these events
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and the specificity of
the information was such
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that it clearly communicated to me
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that she has this capability.
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- This is Bianca, I wanted to see Samantha
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to find out what would
Bianca like to tell us.
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Samantha said this, she told me that,
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"In your home is this
stuffed, floppy, gray rabbit."
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And I said "What?" (laughs)
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I've never met Samantha,
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and Samantha's never
been to our home, right?
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She described it, she said,
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"Gray, and it's stuffed and it's floppy."
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And I said, "I don't
believe what I'm hearing,"
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this really, it scared me
partly, and yet it was amazing.
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And yes, it was sitting on the sofa
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in our bedroom right behind Bianca's bed.
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Actually, I've had this rabbit 16 years,
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I've had her longer than Bianca,
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and it was just sitting on the sofa.
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And Samantha actually told me
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that this was what she wanted
in bed with her at night.
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So that night, I put the
rabbit in bed with her.
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She's been sleeping with it ever since.
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(slow oboe music)
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- The first time I took
Rugby to see Samantha,
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it was mainly out of curiosity for me,
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'cause I'd heard about her.
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And at the time I was
going out with someone,
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but apparently, Rugby told Samantha
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that he didn't think
it was a very good idea
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for me to go out with this guy anymore.
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And he said that he was concerned about me
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because, I forget exactly
what his words were,
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but something like this was
not for my highest and best,
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and in Rugby's opinion, the
relationship should end.
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Which it did, and Rugby
was right, (laughs)
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but it took me a few more
months to figure it out.
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But yeah, that was good
advice from my dog. (laughs)
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- I can readily accept what Samantha does
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because I experienced it for myself.
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The goats are very particular
about what they eat.
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Unlike the myth that
they will eat anything,
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they will not eat anything,
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and they won't eat anything that's soiled.
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Once it touches the ground, forget it,
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they will not touch it.
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But they have a habit of taking the food,
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grabbing it out of the feeder,
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and then turning away somewhere.
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Half of it fell on the ground,
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and it was costing us an
enormous amount of money,
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plus the cleaning out process
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because so much of it
would fall on the ground,
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and they wouldn't touch
it once it had fallen.
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So we were trying to get them
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to be a little more thrifty
in their eating habits.
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And Samantha communicated that to them
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and actually pointed out to
the doelings, Bunny and Lady,
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that since they were
smaller than the big girls,
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they could eat off the bottom trough
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where all the leaves were falling down.
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And that also they should
eat the stems, too,
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and not just the flowers and the leaves.
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And immediately Lady and Bunny started
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to eat down on the trough,
at the bottom of the feeder,
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and I could see in the days that followed
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that they were having
stems in their mouths,
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not just nibbling on the
flowers and the leaves.
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So it has been helpful.
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- My name is Frank Tufariello,
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and I train thoroughbred race horses
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at Belmont Race Track in New York.
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And when we had first
arranged for Samantha
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to come to the barn, I
didn't tell any of my owners
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that she was coming because
they might think I was crazy.
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Well, the very first horse
that I had Samantha look
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at was a horse called Raise The Bet,
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and this horse just didn't want to train.
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He was biting and kicking everybody
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and just being nasty, and
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I had asked Samantha to try
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and find out what was
bothering this horse.
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So she spent some time, about
a half hour with the horse,
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and I went over and asked
her how things were going.
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And she said things were fine, she said,
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"But this horse is pretty angry with you."
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And I was kind of taken aback
by it and asked her why,
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and she told me, "Well,
he had been in training
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for an extensive period
of time, over two years,
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he hadn't had any rest,
and he needed a rest.
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He wanted to go out in the
field and run around and play."
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And I said to Samantha,
"Well, that's not right,"
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because he had just been turned out
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about six weeks previously
on the owner's farm,
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and he was given a rest.
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And now he was just back in
training a couple of weeks.
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So she went back to Raise
The Bet and came back to me
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and said, "Well, according
to him, that's not true.
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He was being trained on the farm,
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and he has not had a rest."
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So I kind of smiled and told Samantha,
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"Well, let's call the owner."
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And I called the owner, and I said,
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"Jerry, I know you're
gonna think I'm ridiculous,
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but I have somebody
here who's communicating
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with Raise The Bet and I have
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to ask you if the...
when he was on the farm,
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did you turn him out like we had said?"
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And there was silence on
the other end of the phone.
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And I said, "Jerry, what happened?"
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And he said to me, "Well,
I didn't want to tell you,
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but my trainer on the farm
said there was no horse
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that he couldn't train, and he said
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'I'm gonna make this horse train.'
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And he put spurs on, and he just
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did what he had to do to
make the horse train."
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And the horse wasn't turned out.
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So, we went back to Raise The Bet,
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and we wound up making a deal with him,
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where he had to run a race
in three or four days,
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and we said, "Well, you run this race,
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you don't have to win, but
at least try in the race."
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And then after the race, we
would give him a vacation.
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And then that's what happened.
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- Yes, sir, I'm gonna take him out.
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Yes, you're gonna be all right, big boy.
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Yeah, I know, this has been
kind of wild for you, huh?
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Traveling in a taxi and all the things.
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But your mommy cares enough about you
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that she wants you to get
all feeling terrific, yeah.
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Yeah, okay, you can get down
and check everything out,
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I don't mind.
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And the kitty's name is?
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- [Cecilia] Tonga.
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- Tonga, okay, and what
are the biggest problems
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that you have?
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- He's very aggressive, he
bites and scratches a lot,
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and sometimes he'll come over
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and just stare at you for a long time,
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and then I know he's getting
ready to bite or scratch.
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Or sometimes he'll just do
it completely out of the blue
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and just run over and bite me.
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- Well, I'll find out from him what it is
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and why he's doing that.
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Now how I work is, he's gonna
spend 45 minutes with me.
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And in that 45 minutes, not
only am I gonna talk to him,
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but I'm gonna go back
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and see if I can find out when it started,
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and get some clear
information on how he feels
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and some other information about his life.
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And then you'll be back, and
then I'll give you a readout.
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- [Cecilia] Okay.
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- Okay?
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- [Cecilia] Bye, Tonga.
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- [Interviewer] Do you have any idea
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what you expect to happen today?
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- Oh, well, I expect that
Tonga will speak with Samantha
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and be unladened of his psychic burden
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and he'll come home a happy, docile cat.
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- [Interviewer] Do you believe
that that's really possible?
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- No, (laughs) but it'd be nice.
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- Do you know, with my hand here,
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do you know how scared
you get, you know that?
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Do you know that when
you bite someone's hands,
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they get as scared?
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And you cannot bite people,
no, and you cannot swat them.
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She's gonna get you some real nice toys
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that'll bounce all
over, and you can attack
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and swat those, okay?
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Let's get the rest of this out.
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We have a little more to get out,
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that's not gonna come close to you.
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No, and you can growl.
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Go ahead, you can growl and you can-
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(cat meows)
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No, no, no, no, no, no, it's all right.
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It's all right, hang in there.
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Hang in there with me, I
promise I won't hurt you.
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I know how hard this is.
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Okay, and she's gonna be
coming in in a minute.
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Yes, okay, now let me finish up this side,
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and then we'll let her in, okay?
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Now we're gonna get to that
spot that's uncomfortable,
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so you have to sit real steady,
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and if you get uncomfortable,
(cat hisses)
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stick your nails in my pants.
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Yeah, I know baby boy, I know.
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Are you about ready to get down?
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Okay, now let's go get his owner in here.
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Sit down.
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All right, what I did
was I worked with Tonga,
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basically giving him,
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started out with giving
him pictures about biting.
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And how you do this is,
animals think in pictures,
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or visual images, and in your mind if
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you can give him a picture of what it is
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that you would like him to do,
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he will be able to pick
up your impressions
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or visual images very, very quickly.
[00:16:38.03]
As I was working with him,
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I found that he has two things going,
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one of a fun nature regarding hands,
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and one of a terror
nature regarding hands.
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So I decided to start activating
the part of the terror,
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and of being frightened,
with somebody coming at him.
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So what happened, as we went back in time,
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I literally saw him being taken.
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I think it was... he talked
about it being a male
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that had picked him up and grabbed him.
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That particular incident is the incident
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that is traumatic for him.
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So he has a couple of areas on the back
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that he gets highly
activated when you pet him.
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Then what it does is it
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continually triggers this
uncomfortable memory.
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I have told him that
he hurts us by biting,
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and that he has to quick that,
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and that hurts as much as his back, okay?
[00:17:40.01]
Oh, then he started telling
me about your shower curtain.
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- [Cecilia] Oh, yeah, what did he say
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about the shower curtain?
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- [Samantha] He loves that shower curtain.
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- Oh yeah, it's full of holes,
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and he likes the bathtub, too.
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- [Samantha] Yes, yes that's
his more special area-
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- [Cecilia] Well, Tonga was
definitely a changed cat
[00:17:58.09]
after seeing Samantha.
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He was very, very calm, very relaxed.
[00:18:05.01]
He was almost as if he
was on tranquilizers,
[00:18:07.09]
and his aggressive habits started
[00:18:11.02]
to come back after that initial week,
[00:18:14.05]
but he was never as aggressive and hostile
[00:18:17.06]
as he had been prior to
his visit to Samantha.
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He definitely calmed down a
lot, and released some kind
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of trauma, or hostility, or something.
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- I'm Magda Sula.
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- [Samantha] Hi, I'm Samantha.
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- How are you, Samantha?
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- Nice meeting you.
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- I as well.
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- [Samantha] I work with so many animals
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that have emotional
problems, are stressed out.
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- [Magda] He got hit by a car.
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- [Samantha] The primary function
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that I do is to help heal them up.
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Well, honey, you are
beautiful, this is Horse?
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- [Magda] Mm-hmm.
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- Hi, Horse, how are you?
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Animals are extremely sensitive,
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and they're totally aware
of their environment,
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much more than people realize.
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They also remember their pasts.
[00:19:14.01]
They're affected by every single thing
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that has ever happened to
them, the same way we are.
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So we're gonna work on basically-
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Animals basically record
information visually.
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They use nonverbal
communication, mind to mind,
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visual impressions, feelings,
and pictures back and forth.
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It's like your mind has an eye,
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and you let that mind's
eye give the visions,
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and when you do that, information
will come back to you.
[00:20:04.03]
(slow music)
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I worked with several of the
elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
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Maya is an Asian elephant,
she's about 75 years of age.
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We talked for a little
bit and I walked away.
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She took her big huge leg
and she swung it to hit me,
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and the keepers had to push her off.
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She did that twice, and
I turned and I asked her
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what the problem was,
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and she informed me that
she wasn't finished talking
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and that I rudely just
turned and walked away.
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What I did was I apologized,
my behavior was completely off.
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And I mean I sincerely,
with all of my heart,
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apologized to this
great, intelligent being.
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As I apologized to her,
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she bowed.
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She went all the way to the ground
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and the keepers were so surprised,
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they said they never saw her do that.
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She said that she had bad
feet and they hurt her,
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and she wanted me to
communicate that to her keepers.
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So I did a little bit of pet massage
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on the bottoms of her feet
and around her whole nails,
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and she was so grateful.
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Anyway, I finished all the footwork,
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showed the keepers how to
do that kind of massage,
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and now every day they
get to have the bottoms
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of their feet worked with and massaged,
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and she's very, very pleased.
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(slow guitar music)
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Yeah, you know, huh,
you're hungry, aren't you?
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My dream when I was a little girl was
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to someday work with
animals, that was my dream.
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Come on, little girl, come on,
little girl, I know, I know.
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And I knew that I had
something special with them,
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I didn't know quite what it was.
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I just knew that I wanted to be with them.
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Bite hard.
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That's it, good girl.
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She really likes this stuff. (laughs)
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How's it going?
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Okay.
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When I was a little girl, I
was very tuned into animals.
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I had a very rugged childhood.
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And so the animals, my dog,
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really provided the
emotional nurturing for me
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that a parent would normally nurture,
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but I didn't have the parents
to nurture me that way.
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I was adopted at five years old,
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and we never talked about
my parents, or my dad.
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To this day I don't know who he is.
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There are periods in my life
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that were pretty emotionally
devastating to me.
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When I was adopted is when
I bonded with the animals.
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They were always there, emotionally,
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no matter what state I was in,
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and that was the refuge
that I could go to.
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I talked to my dog and my dog listened,
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and I shared everything with my dog.
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And as I grew up, we were best friends.
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I never grew away from that.
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Not only did I bond with
them, but I believed always,
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I still do, that we are equal beings.
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I do not see the animal kingdom
as separate from myself.
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And that's why we can communicate.
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Hello, little fish.
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- When Samantha comes in
to my house, which now has,
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as I said, three cats,
two dogs, and a rabbit,
[00:24:23.03]
it's like somebody coming
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into... it's rather like the fantasy
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of St. Francis of Assisi,
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just all the animals gather round.
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They really do come right over to her,
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and they really know who she is to them.
[00:24:40.07]
(radio speaking in foreign language)
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(rooster crows)
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(radio blares music)
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(background noise drowns out speaker)
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- [Frank] Hello, how are you?
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You look good.
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- Yeah, I'm hanging in there.
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- That's good.
[00:25:07.07]
- Yeah.
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(radio speaking in foreign language)
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Okay, this is?
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- This is Keep It Easy.
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- Keep It Easy?
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Keep It Easy, wow, okay, Keep It Easy.
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I want to immediately go in
here and work on the chest.
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Yes, I know, I know we've
got problems on this chest.
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And it seems to me that
there's something on more
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of the right side,
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or the left side than the right side.
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I'm not too sure until I get in there
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and touch and then I'll
ask some questions.
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But I feel something is off on that chest,
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right away, immediately.
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And, you gonna let me
touch you, sweetheart?
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(horse snorts)
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Yes.
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Okay, lets see what you got here.
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All right, my body's starting
to get uncomfortable now.
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It seems to be up higher.
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I feel like there's
something way up inside.
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It's almost like, when
I tune into my chest
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and his chest, on this side,
it's like I get winded.
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And that part is very heavy,
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and I don't feel real good right there.
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And it's all... it's
probably his physical heart,
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or the lungs.
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If I was running,
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I would have probably a
small pain in my heart.
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- Well, what he... he has a problem
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with his valves in his heart.
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- [Samantha] The valves
in the heart, no wonder.
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- He has a murmur.
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- [Samantha] He has a heart murmur?
[00:27:16.08]
- Mm-hmm, about two months
ago, he was given an EKG
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and he was given a
sonogram, and they found
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that his valves just don't work properly.
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- Yeah, and it feels to me
like it's the right ventricle,
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it feels like it's the one,
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and check with them, ask
the vet, call the vet.
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- She walked in immediately
[00:27:39.03]
she sensed there was
something in his chest.
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She didn't know exactly what it was.
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And eventually came to his
heart, and I'm not positive,
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but I think she picked the ventricle also
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that was bothering him.
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- Yes, hello, Sissy, yes,
we're gonna work together.
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Boy we're talking, "Be careful with me,"
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and I want to get very quiet
and soft, and back off,
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and, "don't come at me real
fast," and boy, she just is,
[00:28:10.02]
she's very apprehensive
and I almost feel sad.
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And I don't know why yet.
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Also, this one is another one that needs
[00:28:19.08]
to be outside just a little
bit more, just out there, even.
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It's in the stall too much.
[00:28:28.03]
- [Frank] She's tried to
jump out of the stall.
[00:28:29.08]
- She needs to go out, that's why she-
[00:28:31.08]
- That's why we have a gate on her.
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We had to put a gate up because she tried
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to jump over the top of the webbing
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and she got her legs caught.
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- Wouldn't be easier if you
just took her outside? (laughs)
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- [Frank] She also digs a lot, Samantha.
[00:28:48.02]
You think she's trying to tunnel out now?
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- It's just...
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It's like she says, "If I keep trying,
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just quietly keep trying, maybe
he'll pay attention to me."
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Yeah, that's what it is, so
you need to get her outside.
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She needs to see the
sunshine and the wind.
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Hold steady, sweetie.
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And they're gonna take you out.
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You're gonna get to go outside.
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Yes, yeah, you can see the trees.
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Yeah, yeah, you smell that?
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Whoa.
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And then she'll run better, too,
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and she'll stop all that other stuff.
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You can look at it, yeah, go ahead, aww.
[00:30:04.02]
Aww, (laughs) sweetheart.
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- I saw the lady-
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- [Interviewer] Samantha.
[00:30:15.01]
- Samantha talking to the...
in pictures to the animals.
[00:30:22.03]
And it's very interesting, I like it.
[00:30:24.08]
I've always tried to figure
out what they were thinking,
[00:30:29.04]
for years, trying to... every time you get
[00:30:32.01]
underneath a horse you're always trying
[00:30:33.05]
to picture what's going on in his mind.
[00:30:35.09]
- [Samantha] What's this one's name?
[00:30:36.09]
- [Frank] Vail Run.
[00:30:37.09]
- Vail Run, oh, what a beautiful name.
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Yes, I will cuddle you.
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This one needs, right
away, needs a lot of love,
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a lot of reassurance.
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Let me get in here and
start working with her.
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- Since she's been here,
she came in here on Sunday-
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- [Samantha] It's okay, it's okay.
[00:30:58.08]
- [Frank] She hasn't eaten
since she's been here.
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- Okay, I'll get her to start eating,
[00:31:02.04]
and let me talk to her.
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She likes to run, so I'm telling her
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that once she starts to eat again,
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yes, that she's gonna get to run.
[00:31:38.05]
Yeah, oh, you want to climb in my pocket?
[00:31:41.06]
Well, if you were a little smaller,
[00:31:44.00]
I'd love it if you climbed in my pocket.
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And you know you have to eat?
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You better now?
[00:32:05.01]
You ready to eat?
[00:32:06.00]
I think she's about ready to go eat.
[00:32:08.05]
- [Frank] I hope so.
[00:32:09.03]
- I think so, remember sugar,
this one's sweet oriented.
[00:32:14.00]
- [Frank] Okay.
[00:32:16.00]
- [Samantha] Yes.
[00:32:19.00]
- [Frank] I think as far
as people being skeptical,
[00:32:22.09]
when they see the kind
of results that I've seen
[00:32:25.09]
with Samantha, I think they have to start
[00:32:27.07]
to accept more what
she's capable of doing,
[00:32:33.06]
and I think they will
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as they're exposed to it more and more.
[00:33:06.00]
- Growing up with my mom,
I lived in the household
[00:33:10.08]
with her and she wasn't
working with animals
[00:33:12.08]
as a regular job, but they
just were in our household,
[00:33:16.04]
and we were forever bringing in strays.
[00:33:19.09]
Not only dogs and cats, and
birds and rats. (laughs)
[00:33:24.06]
We were in high school and my
brother had seen a pheasant
[00:33:27.03]
that had gotten hit by a car
and he brought it to Mom.
[00:33:30.04]
- As I worked with this pheasant,
[00:33:33.08]
it started giving me
pictures of it flying,
[00:33:37.03]
literally flying over the field,
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and I could see the ground and the weeds,
[00:33:45.08]
and I had never flown.
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And I knew, that was the first time,
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that that information and the impressions
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and visual information
was not in my past memory,
[00:33:56.02]
because I hadn't done this.
[00:33:57.09]
And that was the massive turnaround
[00:34:00.09]
in the fact that we could communicate.
[00:34:04.06]
Now when I first got that information,
[00:34:06.09]
I didn't recognize that I
could give information back-
[00:34:10.05]
- [Interviewer] But how did you feel when-
[00:34:13.04]
- I felt incredibly free, I felt-
[00:34:16.05]
- [Interviewer] Was it a shock?
[00:34:17.08]
- It wasn't exactly a shock at the time.
[00:34:22.00]
It was, afterwards it was
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a sheer joy, absolute...
and I can remember now,
[00:34:31.05]
then a little bit, but now I look back
[00:34:34.03]
and we saw the movies with Merlin, and
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who was it?
[00:34:43.00]
Merlin teaching King
Arthur about the animals
[00:34:47.08]
and about becoming the eagle,
[00:34:50.06]
and becoming the different beings.
[00:34:53.08]
And I experienced becoming that being,
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in that experience of
the visual information
[00:35:02.05]
that was transmitted to my brain.
[00:35:04.08]
And I could see what it, and
feel what it felt like to fly.
[00:35:10.05]
- [Interviewer] Is that
your first recollection of-
[00:35:12.07]
- Of, yeah, of Mom really
working with an animal,
[00:35:15.06]
of the pictures, sending the
information back and forth.
[00:35:19.02]
That was the very first time
[00:35:20.04]
that Samantha had ever gotten that,
[00:35:23.02]
and then she took it from
there and she started working
[00:35:25.02]
with all the animals in the neighborhood.
[00:35:27.02]
"Now, here, you've got a problem?
[00:35:28.05]
Give it to me, let me
see if I can work on it."
[00:35:30.05]
And it was almost like a game, "let's see
[00:35:33.00]
if I can get some information
from this animal."
[00:35:35.03]
- So we've been working on that-
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- [Heidi] And that's
when I started to think,
[00:35:38.05]
this isn't the regular family
that everybody else has.
[00:35:42.05]
- Yes.
[00:35:43.08]
- It was the very first date
that me and Heidi had had.
[00:35:47.03]
She had told me before
we even started dating,
[00:35:49.07]
I think the very first
time we ever really talked,
[00:35:52.01]
"I'm a little bit different,
[00:35:53.04]
and my household's a
little bit different."
[00:35:55.03]
I asked her, "Well,
what does your mom do?"
[00:35:57.00]
And she told me a little bit about it.
[00:35:58.04]
Now, when somebody says
something like that to you,
[00:36:00.04]
that this lady, "my mother
communicates with animals.
[00:36:04.06]
She reads their minds
and they talk to her,"
[00:36:07.06]
I mean, being a skeptic,
I think, like most people,
[00:36:11.04]
I just kind of thought,
"No, what is this?"
[00:36:13.09]
You tend to think this is
the loony bin going on here.
[00:36:18.02]
I walked out to my car and I sat there.
[00:36:20.06]
I didn't start up the car right away.
[00:36:22.06]
I just sat there and thought,
[00:36:24.03]
"Should I come back to this house?
[00:36:26.00]
I mean, this is pretty strange."
[00:36:27.09]
The way she talks to them,
[00:36:29.01]
and this lady gets
right down on the floor,
[00:36:31.05]
and talks to them like
they're human beings.
[00:36:35.05]
- And we can do exercises,
you want to do exercises?
[00:36:38.08]
Okay, Rodney, come on, hey, Rodney, ready?
[00:36:41.06]
Nicky, come and do it with
Nanny, one, two, come on, Rod.
[00:36:46.09]
Yeah, put your wings out, though.
[00:36:49.02]
You're not putting your wings out.
[00:36:53.07]
Come on, Rodney, one, two, three.
[00:36:57.02]
(Rodney chirps)
[00:36:59.08]
Tell him to put his
wings out, he's cheating.
[00:37:02.09]
- I can think of one time when,
[00:37:04.06]
where she wanted her cat to come in.
[00:37:07.00]
We were sitting in the
living room and she said,
[00:37:08.06]
"Jeez, I wonder where," I
think it was Peaches... no,
[00:37:11.05]
it was Jay Jay, "I
wonder where Jay Jay is."
[00:37:13.06]
And she says, "I'm just gonna
think about him coming in
[00:37:16.07]
and sitting in my lap."
[00:37:17.07]
And five minutes later, here
comes this cat from wherever,
[00:37:21.05]
it was outside somewhere,
where she walked right in,
[00:37:23.01]
walked through the house,
jumped up on her lap,
[00:37:25.03]
and I thought "Wow, that's something."
[00:37:28.00]
So yeah, it took time, but just seeing her
[00:37:31.07]
with her own animals, not
so much clients' animals,
[00:37:34.07]
but her animals, I really got
to thinking this is really,
[00:37:38.02]
it can happen, I mean, it is possible.
[00:37:44.02]
- Jay, come on over here, please.
[00:37:48.06]
Come on, thank you.
[00:37:52.04]
This is my guy.
[00:37:55.06]
Yeah, he's purring,
(laughs) you're my baby boy.
[00:38:03.00]
Tammy's a desert turtle,
[00:38:05.00]
and I've had her here three months now.
[00:38:10.08]
Michael, come on over
here and meet everybody.
[00:38:16.07]
He has to think about it
and then he may come over.
[00:38:20.02]
(dog barks)
[00:38:21.09]
Hi, Sonny, that's a neighbor dog.
[00:38:25.00]
Sonny is fascinated with this
yard and all the activity.
[00:38:32.00]
Comes up and visits, (laughs) looks over.
[00:38:36.09]
Altogether we've got 11
kitties now that I feed.
[00:38:41.02]
Not all of them are my own.
[00:38:43.03]
I've a lot of what I call transient cats,
[00:38:45.04]
and they are stray cats
that we put food out.
[00:38:47.06]
We also put food out for the ants here.
[00:38:50.05]
And when I first moved here,
I had my first experience
[00:38:53.02]
with what a battle with ants was like.
[00:38:55.07]
A war, it was a war, and
[00:39:00.09]
no one was winning.
[00:39:03.08]
And I got up one morning, and
they attacked my refrigerator,
[00:39:08.04]
and they were inside the
refrigerator and the freezer,
[00:39:11.07]
trying to get... just like
this wall of dark little spots.
[00:39:16.08]
And that's when I finally
said, "Hey, hey, no way.
[00:39:19.02]
I'm not playing, the war is not here,
[00:39:22.03]
and you have 24 hours
to get out of my house.
[00:39:25.08]
If you're not out of my house
by 24 hours, I will spray.
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But it will be the last
time I ever do that,
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and I'll give you a
length of time to do it
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and I'll feed you outside.
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And I'll continue to feed
you as long as I live here."
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And I've kept my promise
and they don't come in.
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So what I'm trying to create
[00:39:46.08]
in my environment is
a working relationship
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with all species, to
[00:39:55.08]
put it into actual practice,
[00:39:58.04]
the belief of having heaven on earth
[00:40:01.04]
in one single little environment,
[00:40:03.08]
where the cats don't attack the birds,
[00:40:07.01]
or the turtle feels safe,
or there's a curiosity
[00:40:11.09]
of one species to another,
and they get to explore that.
[00:40:26.06]
This is Toodles.
[00:40:31.01]
Toodles, all these people
are gonna look at you, yes.
[00:40:36.06]
And Toodles had an owner that
gave her too much medication,
[00:40:41.00]
and the feathers all fell out.
[00:40:43.02]
And so they were gonna put her to sleep,
[00:40:45.08]
just because her feathers fell out.
[00:40:48.08]
So anyway, we told Toodles
that we would keep her
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and she didn't have to have feathers.
[00:40:53.01]
To us, Toodles is like a little ET.
[00:40:57.02]
Toodles, would you put
your head in my hand
[00:40:59.02]
and show them how affectionate you are?
[00:41:04.07]
All she wants is to be loved.
[00:41:09.03]
Yeah, (clicks tongue)
shall we kiss kiss kiss?
[00:41:19.03]
That's fun. (laughs)
[00:41:21.03]
Anyway, this is Toodles, another
little being in our group.
[00:41:46.01]
Look who's on the floor, say
hello, who's on the floor?
[00:41:50.08]
Say, who's on this floor?
[00:41:52.09]
Yeah, oh, that's all
right, it's just Streak.
[00:41:59.01]
You're gonna eat kitty food.
[00:42:03.04]
Oh, yes, kitty food, you
gonna eat kitty food too?
[00:42:08.07]
Oh, this is a game we play.
[00:42:11.03]
Its, you flip it over your head,
[00:42:13.00]
and then catch it in your mouth. (laughs)
[00:42:18.01]
But she does it with littler seeds.
[00:42:26.01]
Well, you have to flip
it farther, good girl.
[00:42:28.09]
You have to throw it
up a little bit higher.
[00:42:31.09]
That's it, that's it.
[00:42:39.09]
- [White Parrot] Hello.
[00:42:47.09]
(slow music)
[00:43:07.08]
- [Toodles] Hello.
[00:43:31.05]
- I think everyone has the potential
[00:43:33.09]
to be able to communicate.
[00:43:36.01]
I really would like to be
able to give people the keys
[00:43:40.01]
in order for it to be an experience
[00:43:42.08]
and be an everyday event,
[00:43:46.00]
instead of being something separate
[00:43:48.02]
from your own natural
ability to communicate.
[00:43:55.08]
(quiet overlapping chattering)
[00:44:16.08]
- I have a friend that
communicates with animals.
[00:44:18.08]
She has a cat, and when she
first took the cat home,
[00:44:22.05]
after a few days, she
held the cat in her arms
[00:44:25.00]
and the cat looked at her and says,
[00:44:28.01]
"You are not of my kind, what are you?"
[00:44:30.09]
So she told her that she was
human, and that she was a cat,
[00:44:35.01]
and she was gonna take
care of her and love her.
[00:44:38.00]
And ever since then, they have
a very interesting rapport.
[00:44:40.09]
When you least expect it,
[00:44:42.02]
the cat says very
interesting, unusual things.
[00:44:46.06]
- I did have some experiences,
not only with dolphins,
[00:44:50.03]
whom I presume are at least
as intelligent as we are,
[00:44:52.08]
and so forth, and I
wish we could elect one
[00:44:55.09]
for president, but-
[00:44:57.04]
- I do a lot of hunting and
I used to have hunting dogs,
[00:45:01.00]
which you have to work very closely with.
[00:45:04.01]
In the field there's a
telepathic understanding,
[00:45:08.04]
beyond just the conditioning,
you and the dog.
[00:45:11.05]
And also, I've done
quite a bit of falconry,
[00:45:15.03]
so sometimes you have a sort of,
[00:45:18.03]
man, bird, dog, and the game, obviously,
[00:45:24.07]
team or interplay,
[00:45:27.07]
in which
[00:45:29.07]
I'd like to have the insight
[00:45:32.09]
of someone who's focusing on telepathy.
[00:45:37.09]
- To send information to animals,
I use a simple technique.
[00:45:43.06]
It's like daydreaming,
[00:45:45.07]
or using your visual aspect of your brain.
[00:45:48.06]
For instance, it's like
you're writing a story
[00:45:52.05]
about how your cat changed its behavior
[00:45:55.09]
and started using the cat box.
[00:45:58.07]
Well, writers always see
the visuals in their mind.
[00:46:03.04]
So what you need to do,
in a daydream format,
[00:46:07.09]
is see your cat going to the
cat box, climbing into the box,
[00:46:13.02]
digging and going to the bathroom.
[00:46:16.03]
When you respect their sensitivity
and their intelligence,
[00:46:20.06]
you'll begin to pick up
information from them.
[00:46:23.07]
Then they'll understand better what it is
[00:46:26.04]
that you want them to do,
[00:46:28.02]
and they'll change their behavior.
[00:46:33.00]
- Samantha told me to
give the goats pictures
[00:46:37.02]
of what I wanted them
to do, and also pictures
[00:46:41.04]
of what would happen if they did
[00:46:43.02]
what I didn't want them to do.
[00:46:45.01]
So the first time Eureka
put her foot in the bucket,
[00:46:48.09]
I kept sending her pictures
of, if she put her foot
[00:46:53.02]
in the bucket, I would
douse her with the milk.
[00:46:56.05]
I saw the milk dripping from her face
[00:46:58.07]
and off her nose and off her neck.
[00:47:01.06]
And so the picture was
very vivid in my mind.
[00:47:04.02]
So I just remembered
how it looked in my mind
[00:47:07.08]
and I sent it to her,
I gave it back to her.
[00:47:10.04]
"This is what you're gonna look like
[00:47:11.06]
if you put your foot in the bucket."
[00:47:13.06]
If she didn't put her foot in the bucket
[00:47:15.03]
and she stood real still,
[00:47:17.01]
then she would get a hug and sweet talk,
[00:47:20.08]
and I visualized hugging her
[00:47:23.00]
and telling her what a good girl she was.
[00:47:24.06]
And I did that for about a week
and she hasn't put her foot
[00:47:27.08]
in the bucket again and
she's been a real good girl.
[00:47:31.05]
- [Samantha] Can we put Tammy on your lap?
[00:47:33.07]
- [Nicky] Sure.
[00:47:34.06]
- [Samantha] Okay.
[00:47:35.04]
- [Heidi] With a nice, clean blanket?
[00:47:36.05]
- Yeah, say, Tammy gets
to feel this blanket.
[00:47:41.00]
Yeah, Tammy, only
special little beings get
[00:47:43.09]
to be on Nicky's blanket.
[00:47:46.00]
- Yeah.
[00:47:46.08]
- Yeah.
[00:47:47.07]
- Just Tammy, whoa, whoa,
Tammy, Tammy burped.
[00:47:53.00]
- She did, (laughs) didn't
she, I know, I know.
[00:47:58.03]
Rub her head and let her know
that we're gonna just put her
[00:48:02.04]
in her bed in just a few minutes.
[00:48:03.09]
- [Nicky] You're gonna go in your bed
[00:48:05.03]
in just a few minutes, okay? (laughs)
[00:48:08.09]
She's tickling me.
[00:48:10.07]
- Okay, well, let's put
her down on the floor.
[00:48:14.01]
Okay, we have to hold her real tight
[00:48:15.09]
so that she doesn't get spooked out.
[00:48:18.04]
Okay, so let her know
we're not gonna drop her.
[00:48:21.05]
Okay, so there we go, Tam.
[00:48:23.08]
- [Nicky] Tammy can't go up-
[00:48:24.07]
- Nicky, my granddaughter who's three,
[00:48:27.00]
she already has the sensitivity
[00:48:29.07]
and picks up animals' communication.
[00:48:32.07]
That's her reality.
[00:48:33.08]
Her reality is that
humans speak to animals,
[00:48:38.06]
animals speak to humans.
[00:48:41.04]
Animals are intelligent, animals
think, animals can speak,
[00:48:46.00]
and so she's gonna grow up
and think that's normal,
[00:48:50.02]
where for us, the possibility,
if somebody hears,
[00:48:54.09]
"Oh, I know this lady
in Escondido that talks
[00:48:57.04]
to the animals," usually the
response is, "There's no way."
[00:49:03.00]
And a lot of times I assume
[00:49:04.04]
that I'm considered a little bit
[00:49:05.07]
as being a little crazy, loony person,
[00:49:09.00]
and that will probably stay
[00:49:10.05]
that way until the next
generation of children grows up,
[00:49:16.01]
and that possibility is
much more of a reality
[00:49:19.08]
and they're much more open.
[00:49:21.08]
PA, you just hold steady,
[00:49:23.04]
and then we'll give you your
medicine and you can fly, okay.
[00:49:28.06]
Open up wide, come on, then you can go.
[00:49:31.08]
Come on, come on, open up, come on.
[00:49:35.06]
Come on, you did it just a second ago.
[00:49:37.06]
That's a baby, that's good, good.
[00:49:43.02]
- If somebody's skeptical
and they have an open mind
[00:49:45.08]
and they say, "Okay, prove it to me."
[00:49:48.02]
And then if they're not just
stuck in "prove it to me,"
[00:49:51.02]
but they really are a skeptic,
[00:49:52.06]
then they can... then
you have an opportunity
[00:49:55.03]
that, yes, come along
and show them something
[00:49:57.03]
that's a little outside
of their way of thinking,
[00:50:02.00]
but it'll make sense to them.
[00:50:04.08]
- She purports to do things
that others find not possible.
[00:50:08.06]
It falls beyond the scope
of their body of beliefs.
[00:50:12.04]
But in our thinking, that
does not invalidate anything.
[00:50:16.04]
Just because a person
doesn't believe something
[00:50:18.05]
to be the case doesn't mean it is not.
[00:50:21.03]
So therefore, from a
scientific perspective,
[00:50:25.04]
even though the dominant
body of scientists may say
[00:50:29.06]
that such things are not
possible doesn't mean
[00:50:32.06]
that they're not possible.
[00:50:34.03]
What happens in the meantime
[00:50:35.08]
when people have certain
experiences or certain perceptions
[00:50:39.00]
which are not scientifically addressable
[00:50:41.03]
from an empirical perspective?
[00:50:43.03]
Are they invalidated?
[00:50:45.06]
Is it hallucinatory,
or is it pathological?
[00:50:50.00]
Or is it factual, but
just not explainable?
[00:50:54.03]
(slow guitar music)
[00:51:00.00]
- You have to start eating.
[00:51:02.00]
Otherwise you're gonna
get very, very, very sick.
[00:51:06.07]
It's all right to have
him come in. (laughs)
[00:51:24.08]
It's all right, it's all right.
[00:51:28.04]
It's all right.
[00:51:30.01]
So for people to...
[00:51:33.09]
To really open up, and if
they can't swallow the belief
[00:51:39.01]
that their animal is intelligent
[00:51:40.08]
or we have a possibility
to communicate with them,
[00:51:44.09]
I'm hoping that they just
won't be so closed-minded.
[00:51:51.01]
That somehow they just won't shut the door
[00:51:54.04]
of that not being a real possibility.
[00:52:00.09]
- Bye bye.
[00:52:01.08]
(slow guitar music continues)