We took the dogs up on a hill near the farm, we sat on the windswept hill with them. More and more, I’m using visualization techniques with the dogs and the other animals on the farm, I’ve been working on this for nearly 15 years, I want to write about it in my “Talking To Animals” book, but I have learned that animals can relate in many ways to the images in our heads about them, it is a way I have always communicated with my dogs, it has always worked for me. In my house, on the walks, I picture calm, I picture peacefulness, I picture them sitting with me or Maria. This has come to pass.

I’ve done this regarding the road, being left alone while I write, being left alone while we eat. My dogs never run off, never wander, when we sit and talk or just feel the wind, I picture them becoming a part of it, I picture the scene in this photo, it most often comes to be. This is something I think I need to share and teach, it has become a powerful part of my life with dogs.