Ok... I look into the eyes of animals and can tell their feelings, I can pet WILD animals when no one else can ever get close to them. Is this just in my mind? Please tell me. :p I put this here because most people would think it is fake/fantasy.

I, too, have this same gift of being able to speak with animals of all sorts. Most times when I speak to the animal they are startled to see that I can converse with them. I do it in pictures in my mind. Then the animal talks to me in pictures. They don't really use language like we do - only pictures.

I, too have petted animals that have previously attacked other people. For instance, when I was 5 I was petting a nice doggy who was in a very large cage with wire even over the top of the cage. My mother saw me when she came out of this person's house and screamed to me to get away from the doggy. I found out much later that this nice doggy had mauled several people and was destined to be destroyed the next day. He was fine and dandy with me as I put my little hand into the cage to pet him and talk with him.

I can also talk with animals that I can't physically touch. You name it. Squirrels, rabbits, birds, horses in fields, buffalo, deer, and my raccoons, possums and skunks that I feed nightly. I don't touch them but I can still speak to them none the less.

I also used to visit the zoo in Central Park in NYC. The wolves were quite vocal to me and they told me of their former homes in the wild. I used to walk through the zoo when it had just snowed and would listen to them speak about how that reminded them of home.

My son also has this gift. He petted a manatee in Florida. This manatee came over to him and stayed with my son for about a half hour letting my son pet him. Yes, a real manatee. The marine patrol tried to intervene and stop him from doing this but when they saw he was not injuring the manatee in any way, they let him continue to pet and talk to it. My son also saved a pelican by taking a fishhook out of his wing. Next thing he knew he was surrounded by other pelicans seeking his hands to pet them as well.

No, this is not fantasy. This is a for real gift you have.

I am very good with dogs as I've owned them. My dogs would tattle tale on my son when I would come from work. The dog would show me pictures of what had transpired during the day that upset it. Then I would ask my son just why was he chasing Dooterboy up the stairs. This was the exact mental picture Dooterboy had sent me. My son would sheepishly admit that's exactly what he did to the dog.

Revel in the fact that you have a gift not too many other people have. Just be very careful who you reveal this gift to as most people will think you are making this up or you are nuts or both.

Thank you very much. I can even pick up stink beetals without being sprayed with stink, or pick up prayingmatnids and they have never hurt me. I have always wondered if it was in my mind, but now I know it's real. And another thank you. :)

You are most welcome, Thunderstar. If you would like a really great experience go to the tourist trap that had a huge truck stop on the other side of the interstate. I'm thinking it was on the outskirts of Holbrook, Arizona. There at the tourist trap is a large herd of buffalo that are housed there. I spoke with those buffalo and then went inside and spoke with the owner. . I had told him that I spoke with them and that they had told me that they roamed free at night and that the Indians had decorated their heads and horns with decorations made of torquoise. He told me that the local Indian tribe owned them and that they were left to roam free at night and that the Indians came and cared for them weekly. The owner didn't look that surprised at me when I told him that either, by the way.

The truck stop was on the north side of the interstate.

It's called the Holbrook Truck Plaza on I-40. The tourist trap is across the interstate. I bought a beautiful hand knapped obsidian spear head there. Still have it. Very sharp.

*Nods*