Do You Need a Photo for Animal Communication?

Honestly, I prefer no photo at all.

Photos can be a distraction.

When I communicate with your animal companion, I only need four things:

Their name.

Their species—not their breed.

Their gender.

And whether they are living or in spirit.

That's it.

I don't need to know what they look like. I don't need their history. I don't need a long explanation of their personality or what's happening in their life.

I prefer to begin without any of that.

Why?

Because I want your animal companion to have the opportunity to tell me who they are and what they want me to know.

Photos Can Create Assumptions

We're human.

We look at something and immediately begin forming ideas about it.

A photograph can tell me an animal is big or small. Young or old. It can show me their surroundings, their expression, even clues about how they live.

And once I've seen those things, I can't unsee them.

I'd rather remove as many opportunities for preconceived ideas as possible and pay attention to what I'm receiving from the animal.

Chonkie gave me a wonderful example of why.

He once had a reading with another animal communicator.

And Chonkie came through to her as a Boston Terrier.

Chonkie is a 73-pound pit bull.

Yes, he's black and white.

But a Boston Terrier?

Not even close.

At first, that didn't make much sense.

Then I sat with it.

And I realized:

Oh my gosh. Chonkie thinks he's a Boston Terrier.

My 73-Pound Boston Terrier

My sweet Chonk is terrified of practically everything.

A leaf?

Frightening.

An Amazon box sitting on the porch?

Absolutely not.

There is clearly a hideous, terrifying cardboard monster waiting outside to kill him, and Chonkie will be staying safely inside until someone handles the situation.

He's a big, beautiful 73-pound pit bull who apparently sees himself as something much smaller.

So when that animal communicator received Boston Terrier, perhaps she wasn't being shown what Chonkie physically looked like.

Maybe she was receiving something about how he experiences himself.

Had she seen his photograph first, would she have trusted that information?

Or would her human brain have stepped in and said:

That's ridiculous. He's obviously a pit bull.

That's exactly why I prefer not to know.

So How Do I Connect?

Energetically.

I believe we are all connected.

Humans.

Animals.

Plants.

All living things.

We come from the same Source, and we are all part of one living whole.

Energy is what connects us, and energy is how I communicate with animals.

That connection doesn't depend on seeing what an animal looks like or having them physically sitting beside me.

And I don't believe animal communicators have some special ability that belongs only to us.

I believe this is something we all have access to.

Many of us simply learned somewhere along the way not to trust it.

We were shamed.

Guilted.

Told we were imagining things.

Taught that knowing something without being able to explain exactly how we knew it wasn't valid.

So we stopped listening to that part of ourselves.

But I believe it can be rediscovered—with practice, trust, and an open, willing heart.

You May Be Wondering…

Does my animal companion need to be with me during an animal communication session?

No.

They don't need to be sitting beside you.

They don't need to be sitting beside me.

And I don't need their photograph.

Distance doesn't prevent the energetic connection I use in animal communication.

In fact, I prefer knowing as little as possible before I connect.

Name.

Species.

Gender.

Living or in spirit.

Then I listen.

Because I don't want a photograph to tell me who your animal companion is.

I want them to tell me.

May you see the world through the eyes of love, remembering that we are all part of one living, sacred whole.