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Ethics

Anthropomorphism and Animal Communication Revisited – Again

August 5, 2008

OK. This post is a totally unplanned one – it sneaked up on me as I was minding my own business, driving in my car. I happened to be on my way to a Biz Blogging Basics Meetup and was listening to NPR. That sounds innocent enough, right? The next thing I knew I was [...]

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Anthropomorphism and Animal Communication Revisited

August 3, 2008

In recent posts, we have been talking about anthropomorphism, what it is and the effects it can have on animals and people. Segue to my horse Shiloh, nicknamed Best Horse. Shiloh and I have been together for eleven years, he is a delight and the love of my life. Yesterday as I entered the barn, [...]

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Anthropomorphism and Animal Communication

July 30, 2008

Is animal communication fact or fiction? If we indeed claim we talk to the animals ~ and they talk to us ~ aren’t we just giving them human characteristics and expecting them to respond in a human-like manner? These questions lead us to the subject of anthropomorphism – assigning human mannerisms and feelings to animals, [...]

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Troubled by Turtles

June 27, 2008

I perceive part of my job description as a human being on Planet Earth is to spot dead animals along the road side and send them on their way to the Light. As I’m driving I may be talking to someone, I may be singing or performing some other driving friendly activity, but in my [...]

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Animal Communication and Ethics: Part II

June 9, 2008

Ethics in animal communication is a big topic. There’s a lot to take in and to work out as to how you apply this in your life. I invite you to bookmark these posts and refer back to them as you process this material and learn to use it in a day to day way. [...]

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Animal Communication and Ethics: Part I

June 8, 2008

What’s Involved in the Ethics of Animal Communication Whether we are professional communicators, students of animal communication or lay practitioners of animal communication, it is vital we have a standard we uphold in our communications and in our relationships with the humans and animals. In doing so, we not only are giving our utmost to [...]

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Animal Communication and Ethics – Introduction

June 7, 2008

Are you used to hearing the words ‘animal communication’ yet? Are you beginning to feel comfortable when you think of yourself as being able to converse with animals? Are you starting to feel comfortable with your intuitive side and psychic experiences? Are you consciously aware that U2CanTalk2theAnimals? If the answers to the above is ‘yes’, [...]

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Talk2theAnimals Meetup 5/21/08 Meeting Notes

May 22, 2008

We had an instructive and enlightening meeting tonight, diving right into the heart of the matter for animal communication: ethics and then doing group communications for two horses. We began by reviewing the Code of Ethics for Interspecies Communication formulated by Penelope Smith in 1990. This was followed by an email Janet received from animal [...]

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Detachment in Animal Communication

April 11, 2008

Recently I ran across a blog posting entitled Animal Communicators: Fact or Fiction? What a marvelous title! I couldn’t resist reading this wonderful post as well as the comments that accompanied it. One of the comments expressed conflicting feelings about animal communication (not at all an uncommon experience) and went on to question a communicator’s [...]

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