— By Sujata V Punjabi
Animal telepathy, as I practice it, isn’t a trick. It’s the discipline of quieting the noise in your head long enough to receive impressions – images, emotions, sensations – from an animal who can’t tell you in words what’s wrong.
There’s a particular silence that falls when I tell someone what I do other than financial consulting. I’ve just finished walking them through a discounted cash flow model, and then I mention that later that evening I have a Reiki session with a dog in another city, or that I spent the afternoon reading a cat’s energy field (aura). The pause is always the same length. Then comes the careful question: “Wait – you do what?”
I don’t blame them. An MBA in finance and a five-year practice in animal telepathy, Bach flower remedies, and more than 10 years in energy healing don’t usually share a business card. But I’ve come to believe the two aren’t as far apart as they look. Both are about reading signals that aren’t shouting at you, and trusting what you find.
How It All Started?
It began with my own pet, Koko, a Shih Tzu, a lockdown baby, who started being anxious when I started leaving him with my parents on days that I had to go to the office. He wasn’t saying anything aloud, just that our energies were similar – both of us anxious to leave each other. I looked up for solutions on the internet and stumbled upon an animal telepath. What she told me about Koko made so much sense that I eventually ended up learning animal communication.
Five years and hundreds of animal communications later, Koko was simply the medium; the real learning happened with everyone who communicated thereafter.
A Maltese named Scooby taught me clearly about animal telepathy. The pet parents couldn’t understand why he panicked at the sound of jingling keys, even though nothing in his current home was unsafe. Conversing with him, I didn’t get words–I got a flash of a cold floor and a closing door, and a feeling of being left behind. We never confirmed his history, but once his human started telling him about her whereabouts and by what time she would be back, each time she left… the panic eased within weeks. Telepathy doesn’t replace observation or veterinary diagnosis; it surfaces the emotional layer underneath a behaviour.
The Silent Impact of Bach Flower Remedies
If telepathy is the listening, Bach flower remedies are often the first gentle response. These century-old flower-based preparations address emotional states rather than physical symptoms, and animals respond to them with striking clarity, since they feel without filtering or explaining.
A client’s pet, Harry, had stopped eating not from illness, but after a new pup joined the household – from something closer to heartbreak. A combination of a few Bach flower remedies, for adjusting to change, became part of his routine for a few weeks. Within ten days, he was eating in the same room as the pup for the first time.
I’ve used these remedies, always alongside veterinary care, for animals navigating grief, the disorientation of house moves, or the quiet stress that often hides behind “good” behaviour.
Reiki (Energy) Healing Language
Reiki, a Japanese energy healing practice, with animals, often unfolds surprisingly easily. They don’t carry the self-consciousness or doubts; they simply respond to energy, often more readily than humans do.
Chris, a senior Labrador, was experiencing the natural challenges that often come with aging. His family noticed that he seemed less engaged with his surroundings, spent more time resting, and occasionally appeared unsettled in an otherwise stable routine. Over a series of distant Reiki sessions, the intention was not to “fix” or cure anything, but to provide a calming and supportive energetic space. The human informed that after several sessions, Chris appeared more relaxed and seemed more interested in spending time with family members.
While Reiki is not a substitute for veterinary care, it can offer emotional and energetic support that many people find valuable alongside medical treatment.
Two Paths, One Discipline
People often expect me to choose between the finance professional and “the animal healer,” as if the two require different people. I’ve found the opposite. Both disciplines have taught me to sit with uncertainty, read what isn’t explicitly stated, and trust a process before the result is visible. A valuation model and an energy reading are both attempts to understand something real, but may be invisible at first.
Five years in, I no longer feel the need to justify the pause that follows when I mention this work. Woody the beagle still reminds his parents if they forget to give him medicine. Jhilmil and her human happily moved countries and are settled in the UK.
As for Koko, he simply continues to do what he always has – settling beside me, asking nothing, and somehow still teaching me to listen.
(A finance professional with 15 years of experience in the corporate world, Sujata’s life took a transformative turn when her fur baby, Koko, led her to explore the field of animal telepathy. Today, she combines intuitive animal communication, Reiki healing and other spiritual modalities to support pets and their families, foster deeper understanding, emotional wellbeing, and stronger human-animal connections).