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Speaking With Pets Across The Rainbow Bridge - Episode 207
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Love doesn’t end at the vet’s office door. Jamie sits down with animal communicator Susan Morano to trace a remarkable journey from heartbreak to hope—starting with her dog Jack’s sudden cancer diagnosis and ending with a trail of unmistakable signs that led her to a puppy she believes is Jack returned. The story is specific, grounded, and surprisingly practical: dates, symbols, distances, and choices made in real time, not vague platitudes.
We unpack what animal communication looks like when it’s useful. Susan describes receiving quick images and “mind movies,” the kinds of questions that bring clarity, and the surprising rule that helps pets linger when they visit: meet them with gratitude, not grief spikes. From there, we widen the lens to how animals mirror our energy, why anxious households create anxious pets, and how small nervous systems soak up our stress until it becomes a health risk. Susan shares the journal practices she uses with clients to navigate illness, loss, and the possibility of reincarnation without getting lost in wishful thinking.
Along the way, Jamie brings personal stories—a long-lived cat who still seems to dart past the doorway, and a new rescue dog with mystery origins. Susan offers quick reads that match later facts, plus practical guidance on breed confusion, feeding routines after scarcity, and making hard vet calls when the kindest choice isn’t the most expensive. If you’re grieving, you’ll leave with a simple bedtime method to invite a dream visit and a steadier way to notice signs in daylight: coins in odd places, a toy moved, another pet staring at “nothing.”
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Susan Marano:Hello, and thanks for having me.
Jamie Flanagan:Susan, thank you so much. Uh so we're gonna get in. You got a book, you got a website, uh, you you you're an animal communicator, and we're gonna we're gonna get to all of that. But uh before we do, Susan, uh tell me about your childhood.
Susan Marano:My childhood. Oh gosh. I was born and raised in New York City. Um and when I was in going into the seventh grade, my mom and stepdad moved me to Florida. And that's pretty much it. I was a ballet dancer. I loved to cook as a little kid. So that's a little bit about me in a nutshell.
Jamie Flanagan:Yeah, you did some uh you did some physical uh physical fitness kind of stuff, right?
Susan Marano:Oh, I do that now.
Jamie Flanagan:You do that now, right?
Susan Marano:Yes, I'm an A.
Jamie Flanagan:Another podcast called The Man Cave Uh Happy Hour. And uh Mrs. Vino, Kristen Carlson, she does uh she does all the the fitness bodybuilding stuff. It's uh wow, it's uh it's amazing. So you're doing that, you do that now.
Susan Marano:Yeah, I've been doing it for seven years. It's NPC National Physique Council, and uh my it's bikini class, and I'm proud to announce I always take first or second place. Whoo!
Jamie Flanagan:All right, congratulations on that. Uh, but in the animal world, yeah, go ahead.
Susan Marano:In the animal, I was gonna say I did that in memory of my dad. My dad uh lived two blocks from the World Trade Center and he died of 9-11 related cancers. So, and it was from all the stuff that came from ground zero because he only lived two blocks away. And I wanted to do something to memorialize him, and so being healthy and getting fit is a good way of doing that, yeah, definitely.
Jamie Flanagan:So, but but heading into the animal realm, um you're an animal communicator.
unknown:Uh-huh.
Jamie Flanagan:So, what is an animal communicator?
Susan Marano:Animal communicator is basically an intuitive or psychic, whatever you want to call us. And we basically can speak to animals on the earth plane as well as in spirit. Okay.
Jamie Flanagan:All right. And so um, I I on your on your little profile it said that uh you'd always thought about being a veterinarian, but then you're like, you it was like, well, the idea of putting down dogs and and and seeing the abuse and things was just like your heart couldn't take it. So you never uh really went into the the veterinary field. Uh but you ended up, when did you, when did this uh ability um uh to connect on the on the way you do, when did that come to fruition for you? When did you realize that?
Susan Marano:Well, I think I always had it as far as intuition, but it came into play around dating. And I just I thought to myself, you know, we're women, we overthink, don't think about it too much. And I just kind of pushed it off to the back burner. And then uh I had three cocker spaniels, I had breeded my cocker spaniel, and she had three boys, three girls, three black, three beige. She keeps them all, and uh I wound up um keeping three of them, and Jack was nine and a half, and I was watching it's it's hard to watch your dogs when you have more than one. You open the door, you let them out to do their business, and you can't watch everybody do their business. So I brought him out day two, and I it looked like he was going to the bathroom, looked like he was urinating, and I didn't see anything coming out. And I called my girlfriend, she is a veterinurologist, Anchor, very, very brilliant veterinarian. And she said, bring him in. And I said, You know, I have pet insurance, I'm just gonna drop them off and I'll pick them up. It's probably a stone because I've been an I'm a registered nurse for 25 years. So I kind of thought I knew what it was. So when I went in there, they asked me not to leave and they called me back to the ultrasound room, and he had a mass on his spleen. And they said at that time that it had metastasized to the liver. So she told me I had to put him down right then and there. She said, you know, when he looks like he's gonna pass out, it's because he's bleeding internally. The mass, every time the mass grows and it grows really fast, um, that he bleeds internally, he pinks out a little bit, and then he, you know, the body absorbs it and he's okay. And I told her, I said, This is the love of my life. I cannot just put him down right now. I have to bring him home. And he's got to say goodbye to my son and his mother. And so I brought him home and my girlfriend called me. She had a dog that had thyroid cancer, and she was at the veterinary office, and she said, Dr. Holly wants you to bring Jack down. She said, A lot of the times it's a metal diagnosis. So I went down there with all hope in my heart, and she put him on an ultrasound, and she said, Unfortunately, he does have metastasis. And she said, if he didn't, we could she basically said we could crack his chest and take the spleen and buy you six months. And that that in itself horrified me. Because that would be so selfish. To me, that would be so like this is my best friend in the whole world, and I could never do that to him. So she told me that I had to wrap my head around it because he would basically hemorrhage out of every orifice that he had, and it wouldn't be a good ending for either one of us. So she put him in a little hurricane jacket that she took off her own dog and sent me home. And uh, I had three days and I called lax of love and I had to put him down. And it was sad because that night he had a couple of licks of wine from a wine glass. He ate a piece of pizza, and um, it he appeared to not be in any distress, but just the thought of what could happen is the reason that I I I had to come to terms with it. And it was hot, it was it was difficult. So my girlfriend runs um Gimme Shelter. It's a 501c3 animal rescue. It was out of uh Sarasota, Florida. She was having a big open house that night and a big event, and I couldn't go. And she said, Well, Wendy, um Wendy Cooper's gonna be there, she's an animal communicator, let me talk to her for you. So, fast forward, got Wendy, did a reading with Jack in my arms, and basically she told me he's ready to go. And she communicated with the fish in my tank and the other pets that I had in the house. And it was it was very, very hard. And at this point, I had not embraced my ability yet. And I put Jack down and I had Wendy come to the house. And I was angry. I just wanted my dog back. I just wanted, I I never even heard of an animal communicator, I didn't even know what it was, you know. And when she, you know, when Jack didn't come through the way I expected him to, I just was angry and upset and we didn't get anywhere with it. And well, I started to feel things and see things and read things. I had another uh communications uh suggestion with um Jacqueline Smith. She's written a great book. She deals with animals in spirit on the earth plane, she does wild animals, trees, insects. And she said the first thing out of her mouth was, Well, I don't think you should be too upset because your dog is gonna reincarnate in the spring. And I said, What? Really? I said, you know, I had heard the word, I never gave it much credence. And she basically said, um, yeah, he's gonna come back in the spring. And I'm like, oh no, I go, how will I find him? How will I know it's him? Where will I know to live?
Jamie Flanagan:Yeah, it's it's a big wild world of dogs. How are you gonna how are you gonna find Jack 2.0?
Susan Marano:Right. Gosh, I was I was worried about that. And then I I proceeded to ask her, can I call you next week so I can talk to him again? And she's like, No, we kind of have to let him heal in the weed and he'll be back. So, with that being said, I started a Facebook group for people who had lost their pets. Pet loss, grief support, animal communication, and reincarnation. And as people started to join the group and post pictures, I would get these little movies in my head. And I'm like, what's going on here? And I would type in, oh, well, I see this room with blue curtains. Oh my God, that's my mom's house. And I was like, where is this coming from? I'm like, where am I pulling this from? Like, how do I know this? And it progressively got stronger and stronger. And then one morning I had woke up, and this is probably about maybe three weeks after Jack had crossed, and Buffy and Brandy were sleeping in the bed, and I had gotten coffee, and I put it next to me at the bedside. And I looked, I went to get the coffee and I looked down, and there was Jack. And I was like, That's what I said, huh? And Buffy, Buffy had a little cyst on her head, and I looked down and it wasn't Buffy. And I literally fell out of the bed, and I said, Oh my god, I miss you so much. And I started to cry. And no sooner than I started to cry that it turned in now. It was Buffy. And I was told I called, I called uh Wendy and I told Wendy what had happened. And she said to me, the reason that he didn't stay is because you embraced it with sadness and not gratitude. She said they don't want you to feel pain, they don't want you to feel sadness. And if them coming to you does that, they go as fast as they can. So that was my first real experience. A couple of nights went by, and the dogs were in the bed with me, and I heard rustling in the garbage in the kitchen. And I was like, I was home alone and I was afraid to get up. And I was like, I called out for my son, but he was at work. And I'm like, Jack. And I got up and I went into the kitchen, and there was nothing going on with the garbage. I was like, maybe a raccoon got in the house. Who knows? But then I started to have I started to have all those experiences. And I had gone to my boyfriend's house that weekend when he had crossed, and my son was home with my other dogs, and he said to me, Mom, I was going into my bedroom and I saw Jack walk out of the bathroom. I first I heard water like they were drinking out of the toilet. And Jack was the only one out of the three that drank water out of the toilet. So he said, and I walked, I walked in the hallway and I literally saw Jack walking. And I'm because obviously the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He's got some communication skills himself. And then he was then he was watching TV in the living room, and I had a big crate where they could go in and out whenever they wanted to. And he goes, Mom, I am sitting here and I am looking at Jack. He is laying in the crate. I'm like, wow. So it just got stronger and stronger. And the more people that joined the group, now I'm not charging anybody for anything because I'm like, what if I'm wrong?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Susan Marano:What if I'm wrong? So I called my my psychic, my intuitive, Nora Hooper, and she said to me, Susan, she said, do you she said, you pay me, right? And I said, Yeah. She goes, Well, what if I'm wrong? I go, Well, you know, she said, Well, there you go. You know, you tell people, you know, don't base your life on what an intuitive or a psychic tells you, but they can give you pretty good information, especially when things are coming through really strong. People always connect. When I do readings, I mean, I got a billboard one day with a big roasted pig with an apple in its mouth. And I was doing a reading for this Irish setter named Murphy.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Susan Marano:And I said to I said to his mom, I go, this is gonna sound a little weird, but I have to give you what I get. And I'm seeing this, and she's like, Oh my god. She goes, We are driving. She goes, and that was Murphy's best memory. We had a flavoring reunion every year, and they would do a big pig roast within everything else that the dog had told me that was in there. And she said that was his favorite time because he got to see the whole family. But we do a big pig roast barbecue as a family reunion. So it was really, really kind of cool. And my ability just got stronger and stronger.
Jamie Flanagan:Wow. All right. So so it's like visions, little movies, you you you say, and then you just kind of put that out for folks and they can interpret the the way they the way they choose.
Susan Marano:Yeah, or sometimes like some of my readings, I do a five-question reading or a 10-question reading, and they can ask any questions they like. I only ask them, this is a reading for you and your pet. Some people will come to you and ask you questions to kind of validate um whether you really are a psychic.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Susan Marano:Like, what was my dog's favorite holiday?
Speaker 2:Sure.
Susan Marano:And sometimes sometimes I want to say, did they tell you what your favorite what their favorite holiday was?
Speaker 2:How do you know?
Susan Marano:But yeah, exactly. So I kind of, you know, I get questions from them, things, and you know, people ask a lot of the same questions. Were they in pain? Do they are they angry at me? And pets don't have anger, they are the most loving beings, and there is no anger. And they, whatever your decisions are, they go with that. And a lot of the time, towards the end, they rally for us, not for them.
Jamie Flanagan:All right. So uh, so is it Jack? So the Rainbow Bridge is not uh a one-way street, right? So so Jack's Jack's back, and you have pictures of Jack uh reincarnated. Um so is that yet another dog who's you you feel as though it's it's it's uh Jack 2.0?
Susan Marano:Well, when I called Debbie Johnstone, she is one of the approved communicators for my Facebook group. When I called her, she said to me, I had just gotten an iPad as a gift and it was on the table when I was talking to her. She goes, Well, the first thing I'm seeing is March 17th, and I'm like, Okay. And shh, and I said, she says, Does that mean anything to you? I said, Um, no. She goes, Well, it's St. Patrick's Day. And I said, Okay, I got a little Irish in me. And she said, No. And she says, I'm seeing a cocker spaniel in a uh top hat, like a cartoon. And I said, Okay. And she says, Well, he's gonna be 45 minutes from you. No further than 45 minutes from you, and that's where you're gonna find him. And as she's speaking, I am typing in my iPad, Cocker Spaniels, shamrocks, you know, near me or whatever. And it was just like God just plopped it there. It came open, the screen opened, and it was um Stanfield Farms in Lakeland, which was exactly 48 minutes from my front door. Okay, and it said, We have cocker spaniels for March 17th.
Jamie Flanagan:Oh well, there you go.
Susan Marano:I mean, she was so spot on. So I started to scroll through the site, and all of a sudden there was a cartoon with a cocker spaniel and shamrocks coming out. It was all animated. So as soon as I got off the phone with her, I called Pam, who was the owner. And I said, I'm crazy, but my dog is reincarnating to your litter. Oh she goes, Oh my god, that's amazing. I don't think you're crazy. And I was like, Oh, great. So, you know, the three the three months went by really slow. And um, I had been dating somebody, and my mom said to me, You're never gonna find anybody to marry you with three dogs. You better stop with those dogs.
Speaker 2:Right.
Susan Marano:So we went to get me and my son went to Lakeland to pick the dog up, and we walked in, and there were cocker spaniels running around all over. And I was, I was, I had called Wendy, and she goes, Just relax. He will let you know who it is. Now, Jack had a funny way of laying on his side and his ears would flop up and he would sit under your chair or anywhere close to you. So there were so there was, I think there was like eight Cocker Spaniels puppies. And uh I went and I sat down at the dining room table with the the the woman, and I said to her, I don't know that I can take him home. And she said, What do you mean? And I told her, you know, my mom says that this guy's not gonna marry me, and you know, with all these dogs. And she goes, Well, I'll put him back on the website and I'll return your money. And she says, We'll find him a home, don't worry. So I cried all the way home and I called my dad. And my dad says, Wait a minute. So you asked your dog to come back from the Rainbow Bridge, yeah, and he's here now, and you want to send him back. And he said, Let me tell you something, sweetie. Men are a dime a dozen. If that's your boy, you need to go get him. I sent my son. So I sent my son to get him the next day, and the rest is history. He'll be 13 in January.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Susan Marano:I am, I am well, and they give you signs. My birthday is 1111. My dad was January 1st, 1-1, and Jack uh was born on January 11th.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Susan Marano:And that's all in the book.
Jamie Flanagan:Okay, and that I was gonna say, so let's uh um let's get to the book, shall we? Uh, so what is uh now? I just I I was like I was grabbing pictures of my pets to share with you.
Susan Marano:Uh-huh.
Jamie Flanagan:Uh that's why I was like, and uh okay. I would say because you're like, oh, so I want to show you the pictures of the pets. See what see what you get about my my guys. But uh I just I navigated away from where I wanted to be through okay to the Rainbow Bridge and back Jack's home, um, is is the title of the book. And that's coming out next week, right? That hits the hits the uh digital airwaves 1111.
Susan Marano:1111 on Kindle.
Jamie Flanagan:Okay. And um can people get a 11? Some people like the tackle.
Susan Marano:Oh, yeah, 1118 will be the paperback.
Jamie Flanagan:Nice. Okay. All right, and so what are people when they pick up uh Jack's story here to the rainbow bridge and back, what are they what are they gonna find in there?
Susan Marano:Well, it's it starts, like I said, in the very beginning when he got sick. Um, no, actually, it started before that, when he was born. That's where I started the book. And it just goes into I kind of I created a journal to go with the book. It's called Um Whispers of the Soul, Animal Communication and the 12 Um Universal Laws. So um, you know, it's manifestation at its finest. And one of the things that I feel really plays a role in animal reincarnation is the perpetual transmutation of energy, which states that anything that you hold on the screen of your mind has to produce in physical form by universal law. So the journal that I created teaches people how to navigate through the sickness, the illness, the death, and the possible reincarnation. And, you know, pets come to us sometimes for them, their higher self or their life assignment. And sometimes they come for us. And people seem to think, you know, people go through such grief when a pet dies, but you're still ultra connected. I mean, it's consciousness, is what the it's it's consciousness. And when you get these signs, whether it's a it's a uh a penny or a feather, my dog would move energy. I had a squirrel outside that would just sit there and have conversations with me for 40 minutes. I'd go sit outside under the tree, and I would be like, oh, Jack's moving energy. Brandy would see him, Buffy would see him, and you you can watch your dogs track through the air that they're looking at something, and it's it's really kind of neat. But so it's because everything is vibrations. Animals carry and mirror our energy. And I think, well, I don't think, I know, I know why Jack got sick. I was at that time, I was um I had moved back from New Jersey, I was living in Florida, and I was very negative, very negative, very pessimistic. And animals will draw from us anything that's negative, whether it's cancer or being sick or being pessimistic. And let's face it, they're tiny, their body can only hold so much. And Jack tried to get me to pay attention and try to get me to learn the lessons I needed to learn. And the only way to do it is to cross over because I would not be this person today. I wrote this book 13 years ago.
Jamie Flanagan:You look like you're in a good space.
Susan Marano:I am now. I am now. But yeah, I mean, but I would have never written a book, I would have never opened a space for people to grieve with like-minded people. I tell them, grief is not a place to unpack your bags and move in, it's a place to go through slowly at your own pace, and not to let anyone tell you how to do it because you have to go through that at your own pace. There's just no way to rush through it. But there is yeah, yeah, you there's no way, there's no way around it. You have to go through it, you have to feel it, you have to embrace it. But with animal communication, when you sit with the communicator and they tell you the things that Wendy told me, like just I needed to calm down, I needed to slow down, I needed to, I had angst in my gut. And these were all things that were true. And that's what Jack came to help me work through in this lifetime. But nine and a half years wasn't enough because I wasn't paying attention.
Jamie Flanagan:Ah, so no, I get what you're talking about. Like I you you you said you you you sensed him or you saw saw him. Um, I had I had a guy Kirby, um, and he was with me 18, 19 years. Uh awesome, awesome little dude.
Susan Marano:Oh, looks like my Toby.
Jamie Flanagan:Yeah, it was uh Kirby. And uh so he passed away there at uh at home. He was uh uh you know just uh kidney problems, and we were juicing him, right? Giving him giving him uh giving him water, you know, giving him a bag, and and and you know, and the vet was uh, you know, as long as he's enjoying himself, you know. Hey, you know, so we'd we'd keep him hydrated and uh he was good for a while and finally just uh said all right, see you later. So that was hard. So we didn't get another cat for uh for for some time. But uh I live in a very old house. Um and there's there's there's uh my wife is a little bit more in tune to this than than I am. Uh but it 1831. So when I say old, it's old. 1831.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow.
Jamie Flanagan:You know, before Michigan was a state, before the civil war. I mean it's it's old. Uh so it is so there there's stuff going on in the house, but I will see out of the corner of my eye, uh, before we got before we got our new guy, uh Percy, uh, I would see what I I you know somebody moving, right? Um, not but like a cat, right? And so I'm like, is that what's that? Uh you know, so I was like, I thought he was around, I thought he was kind of kicking around.
Susan Marano:Absolutely. Was was he 19?
Jamie Flanagan:Yeah, yeah.
Susan Marano:He was 19, yeah. Because I I was getting the numbers one and nine around him, and sometimes when I get numbers, it can be the gotcha date or the the actual birth date, but um his personality was more like a dog, yeah, yeah, yep, yep. Okay, yeah, because I'm I'm seeing him following you around. And do you have a room that has curtains in it? Long curtains, like where you could hide behind it, or maybe it's a door, it's dark.
Jamie Flanagan:Yep, yep, yep.
Susan Marano:There's there's and and I feel like that's where it's a place where he used to sit in your house, but I'm seeing like a curtain. I don't know if it's a sheer curtain, but the room is dark, yeah, and it's like behind a door.
Jamie Flanagan:So I lived, we and I had a house on our own for a while. Uh and then um I I met my wife Colleen, and uh, you know, she had a dog and I had the cat, and we all and and and a son, which I got was great too. Uh, and so we all came together. Uh and so yeah, Kirby and I lived in in a house by ourselves for a while, and then uh when we got all got together, we got another house. But uh so he might have been in the basement at the old house or uh behind the curtains in the new house. This is our new guy. This is uh I don't know if you can see how blue his eyes are, but he's got blue, blue, blue, blue eyes.
Speaker 2:Really? He's beautiful.
Jamie Flanagan:So he's like uh an American short hair, but he's got kind of those he's got those kind of Siamese colors to his, you know, the tips on the ears, and the but he's got the ring on the tail like an American short hair, but he's got some kind of Siamese colors, and he's got the blue, blue eyes. So we're thinking I we're guessing he's a mix of you know, we got him from a rescue. Yeah, I mean I always that's what I said.
Susan Marano:I was just asking you if he was a rescue, because I I'm not getting you're his first owner.
Jamie Flanagan:No, we got him as a kitten, so I mean, you know, he was well, whoever dropped him off. He was a little poof poof when we got him, you know. He was a little itty bitty. Uh, but yeah, so he was uh just an itty bitty. Um so yeah, so he's uh he's a ton of fun. He's again pretty dogly. He'll play fetch, he's great. Our old dog wouldn't the new dog there is kind of nosing in. Uh yeah, yeah, I see that. I got questions about her. Uh so but uh yeah, so Percy's uh Percy's he's he's my guy.
Susan Marano:Um Colleen's you let her get into, your dog. She will get into anything you will let her get into, and anything that you don't want her in, she'll be in. Um the cat the cat tolerates her.
Jamie Flanagan:Yeah, he's uh he's right now he's I think he's 12. He's 12-ish. Oh, okay. And she is just over a year. So so we got her.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Jamie Flanagan:We got her at um about eight months.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Jamie Flanagan:Right. So this is her like right pretty much right when we got her. This is uh this is a few months back, right? Uh she's put on a little more weight. Um, so we got her at eight months, and we don't know much about her first eight months. Um what uh are you getting anything about her first eight months?
Susan Marano:Uh I'm getting what I'm getting is an elderly person around her, and it was too much. It was too much, and they could they couldn't. That's intuitively what I'm feeling. And she's in that pic in that picture there, she's still not sure where she is.
Jamie Flanagan:Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Susan Marano:You know, uh emotionally because she was she was connected to that person, but that person was too it was the person was. tool to take care of her.
Jamie Flanagan:Okay.
Susan Marano:You know, I think what I'm feeling is intuitively that she was given as a gift. You know, people don't do a lot of homework and you know, oh grandma's old. Let's bring her a puppy. It'll make her happy. Do dogs that's what okay.
Jamie Flanagan:Do dogs know what brand they are? Do they do they know what breed what brand? What breed they are? Do do they know what uh breed they are? Does she know what breed they are?
Susan Marano:No, I you know when I communicate with animals they usually um give me size like when they want to come back I want to come back smaller because I want to be a lap dog. You know so no I don't I've never gotten a dog that says I'm a German shepherd I want to come back as a German shepherd. Okay. You know I usually get small large right um and some pets come back as a completely different animal. Some come back as a cat some come back as a bird.
Jamie Flanagan:All right Susan I I lied to you. This isn't my dog. No I'm teasing it is my dog I did lie to you though but I do we did know a little bit about her background but I didn't know uh about the circumstances of her background and that's kind of what I wanted so here's what here's what we do know about uh Raina and that was the the name she came with um and we're just like all right well we're not gonna rename her because Raina's not bad so we're gonna stick with that so uh this is what we know about Raina is that uh uh uh an older woman owned her and couldn't take care of her anymore and gave her to her nieces her nieces breed her her nieces her nieces breed dogs so from what they tell us she's a German shepherd pit bull mix is what they said but we don't see any pit bull in her i see husky and and the the nieces breed huskies there you go somebody had a little slip so i that was our our thing oh i know she's a she's she's a little sweetheart she's a lover yeah look at her with a little tongue is that great so um but yeah so so the the the aunt couldn't keep her and and they gave her to the nieces uh and they breed dogs and so they had they had several dogs around and she didn't get along and the other dogs didn't get along with her so they had to give her up uh and they put her up on pet finder and that's where Colleen found her uh and she said look at how sweet she is and we were looking for a medium dog right and because our our last dog was uh again an another high as 57 mixed breed uh so she was a great great dog um and uh so we were looking for you know just a medium size not that's gonna get too big but no nothing that you're gonna carry around in a you know right in a purse pocket or nothing uh so it it you know I was like oh pit bull mix and I'm like because it we're in Metro Detroit and everything yeah everything in Detroit pit bull pit bull pit bull but and then I saw the pictures I'm like well that doesn't look anything like a pit bull um you know because she's got the snout right so we're like I'm like all right well let's go let's go check her out and then they brought her to us and she had like feces all caked on her tummy and we're like all right this dog's coming home with us regardless right she's uh she's right she's coming home with so um we overfed her and over drank her this as soon as we got her home of course that's we do uh but yeah we loaded that cannon is what we did uh so that took a few days to calm down but uh yeah so um so but she was just like she was eating and it was like ravenous like she didn't know if she was going to get to eat again you know it's like so that that whole that whole I'm not sure uh you know it what's going on and she we took her to the vet and the vet you know while we gave her a nice bath and uh I took her to the vet within a day or two and the vet was like yeah you know she's not quite malnutritious but malnutrition but uh she's on the on the border of it she's not dehydrated which was good uh she was about 34 pounds right well she's up to 59 now nice I love that yeah so she's uh she's put on a little weight which is good which is fine so it's not good for my shoulder because she probably pulls it right out of the socket but uh yeah so she's good so that was a thing so she did you were you were very right about that uh uh that she was an older woman and uh she was actually gifted back to her nieces and the nieces just couldn't take care of her and uh just because of the disagreements with the other dogs and we really think that she was kind of I and but she's super skittish and it's like I don't know I don't know why but she's like she gets like super super skittish. Well you only have one dog right yeah yeah yeah what about food aggression no nope I can you know I can walk right up and I can put my hand in her bowl or you know I can move her from her bowl or take her to it and uh the cat he's a jerk he'll like walk between the wall and her bowl while she's trying to eat just to be in cats you know he's like just I love that either you saw him sitting on the couch I want nothing to do with you leave me alone right exactly that's exactly what I picked up she's like I'm tolerating you I'm tolerating you yeah at best but I feel also that where she was the weight problem was because of all the other dogs. She was not aggressive so therefore everybody ate and she would get what was left which really wasn't much you can see her hand she's a skinny mini here but uh she's got she's got some meat on the board beautiful dog she is a good looking pop man she even she even looks like she has a little bit of uh Australian cattle dog in her that is uh what um our previous dog was and that's kind of what drew Colleen to picking her out is because it's like oh those are about the right shape and size and that was kind of Zoe's shape and size and uh yeah so that's what uh just do one of those DNA one of those 23andme things on your dog I I thought you could tell you know the DNA how does she identify identify as uh you know German Shepherd or so yeah we're gonna we're gonna I well I want to do that colleen Colleen thinks it's all malarkey so um oh I don't I don't I I I don't uh they tell me my my job Jack is full breed cocker spaniel and I can tell you when I went to pick him up the woman breed was breeding cocker spaniels and standard poodles.
Susan Marano:I am very sorry you saw the cover of the book and and maybe you've seen some pictures of Jack Jack looks like a mini golden doodle so I think one of the poodles had a slip so I really do want to do the DNA on him. See he doesn't look like a cocker. Now he did in his first life on the cover of the book which is not the cover. We just finalized the cover so um but uh but yeah uh I think that there was a little slip there.
Jamie Flanagan:I guarantee if I do his his DNA he's cocker poodle not pure breed cocker but um I'm also getting around your dog that she she's using the word queen I am the queen if she is she get she gets whatever she wants it's her way and she gets her way no that's that's mom that's what I'm getting that's what I'm drawing from her that's not true she does not she does not get her way no she wants to get her she wants to get her way but she's uh she does I mean we they they're not they're you know so I mean we we she's got a lot of toys um but that's just because it's funny well hence henceforth the queen title yeah yeah yeah well and so and it's like we are waiting trying to get her spade and then you know we finally just did it so she's uh she's a week away from you know she's a week past her surgery so she finally took the call of shame off today and uh so it's another week of of taking it easy so because we would play fetch every day right and so she's just she's just bringing her ball to me like every day going come on dude we're supposed to be outside throwing this what are you doing I'm like you can't you can't for another week so she's like so bummed she's like why are you guys being so I know and I'm like that's so hard you know it's you don't remember but you had a big surgery that's why your tummy's all shaved girl so yeah exactly and they can pull those stitches real easy yeah so we'll go play in the yard next week but uh all right so if someone wants a reading do you do readings I mean do you do it through your website or just for friends what do you do um on the website there's a spot where they can contact me and they can tell me what they're going through my my email address is there and they can send me a uh an inquiry where I can do I do it like I said I do a five question reading 10 question reading and then I have a package of three people going through reincarnation and I tell people all the time you don't have to spend money they won't let you miss it I promise you but people are just like the like I was in the beginning I was like what do you mean I'm not gonna miss it?
Susan Marano:What is it going to just fall out of the sky into my lap and I just started reading everything that I could I started reading everything I could and I um took some classes with Danielle McKinnon who's a also a very known um animal psychic and I just you know strengthened that spiritual gut and that muscle just got stronger and stronger and I just kept getting more and more and now it's you know it's funny because he'll be 13 and he's got he had undiagnosed glaucoma in the left eye and this is a dog that I you know he gets anything he wants if he needs I was going to take him out of the cataract app. That's how we found out and my mom goes you're gonna spend $5,000 on a cataract I said um I know that when I can't find my glasses I'm not a I'm not a pleasant person to be around. So I want him to be able to see. So I brought him in and they told me that you know outside the fact that it was $5,000 that um if they did it because of the glaucoma his vitreous humor was squirting out of the eye slowly and that most likely the cataract surgery would cause them to have to down the road take the eye out. So when a veterinarian tells you we don't want your $5,000 you know it's a good doctor and you wound up in the right place. So I'm just you know we've had our conversations I've told Jack I want him to stay till he's 22. He keeps telling me 17 uh I'll be I'll be grateful for every day I get all right uh susie speaks to animals it's the number two susie speaks toanimals.com is that the best that's the best spot for people to connect yep and they can come to the Facebook group um there's a few questions they have to answer which is nothing major you know why do you want to join are you an animal communicator or a psychic and you know just to keep the group safe um there are people out there that do readings that don't really have the ability so I try to keep the group safe um and like I said the the communicator who actually found him logistically Debbie Johnstone she's out of Arizona she did the forward for the book and um she she's amazing and she's one of the communicators in the group so it's important some you might got on the phone with somebody and you don't resonate with them. You know I mean have you ever gone to like a doctor and be like I'm not seeing him again I don't like him. Yeah so that's why I have a few different communicators in the group because I want people to resonate with the person that's reading them. And um so I have Debbie Debbie Johnstone and Wendy Cooper both have great websites but they can go right to the Facebook page and they can uh ask to join and uh I have a file tab where I have prayer cards, uh templates that you can say um I have house cleansings, I have um recommendations from people who I've read in the past and um yeah I'm really excited about the book. I I I've always said I wanted to write a book and it sat in this plastic book binder for years and I just so happen to be in the right room at the right time. SoulSparks Press is um the publishing house uh my wonderful publisher Deepa Kassandu she's amazing um we just had the book launch in New York in a little place called La Bibliothèque and uh we had a four authors total she's had some um award-winning you know New York Times bestsellers and so and she's a new she's a new publishing house so she's doing really wonderful things and I hope to write a children's book next oh nice okay awesome yeah all right susan uh we'll put links to uh all those things down in the the show notes and uh people can connect that way and uh thanks for uh you know helping me if you will if you will send me your address I would love to send you a copy when it comes out all right brilliant we will do that um anything else anything else people need to know before we take off here just like I said grief is not a place to stay you have to you have to go through it you have to feel the feelings but they never really leave you and one thing that I will tell the audience if you have a pet that has left you when you go to bed tonight I want you to get in bed and close your eyes I want you to state the day the date and the time today Monday November 4th um Johnny I want you to come to me in my dreams and connect with your heart center think about that pet as you fall asleep they may not come to you tonight but I guarantee you they'll come to you soon and personally you'll be like right in my face because that's where you sleep right on my chest breathing on me. Oh I love that I love that that's great.
Jamie Flanagan:All right Susan thank you for having me yep and uh everybody please uh like subscribe leave a comment all those podcast things and all the podcast places uh we'll see you and we'll do it all again very very soon
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