Music for Animals

• Makes Dogs Happy!
• Reduces Separation Anxiety
• Created for and Approved by Pets
• Created in collaboration with renown pet psychic Dr. Kim
• Used by Shelters and Vet Clinics
• Instructions included

Featuring “Speaky Deaky”, the hit song with dogs as seen in USA Today and on the World News Tonight.

Dear Skip,
I have to tell you about this. Last night was the third time for our playing your new CD “Songs To Make Dogs Happy”. I sang some of it to him, we danced, and just hung out. Then I left on an errand. My 17 year old daughter was in her room studying. Her door was closed when she heard a clack onto the hardwood floor outside her door. Apparently our dog Sandy didn’t get enough of your music for pets and wanted to listen to more. The sound my daughter heard was “Songs” jewel case dropping to floor. It’s hard to believe but the dog had to have picked up it up and dropped it outside her closed door. He is half Dauchaund and half Golden Retiever.

Judy Milton

Love it - my English Coonhound (who needs a home!) is very in tune to the computer; he LOVES YouTube and he came up immediately to the Squeaky Deaky clip - he just needed some video w/it! So did my adoptable black and tan hound mix who loves her squeaky toy - checked it out right away - dang - now will need to order one :).
Silver Walk

My girl was never a toy-hound, though squeaky got her attention. “You’re a good dog” seemed to resonate with her more. Must have just sounded right to her, since she hears it often enough. I think her tail was actually on the beat.
K. Ering

Hey Skip,

we got a ton of calls from listeners today asking for your website following your appearance.
Donna Davis : Magic 102.7 Miami

Although our primary focus is dogs, we also create music about, for and with Cats, Parrots, Gorillas and Pink Dolphins and are always looking for more animals to work with.

The response to Songs to make Dogs Happy has been overwhelming. Hundreds of people have written to the Laurel Canyon Animal Company to relate the amazing responses their dogs have exhibited listening to your Music For Dogs over the radio, at home and in their cars. Similar responses have been received from rescue and rehab organizations all over the country.

The Laurel Canyon Animal Company donates hundreds of Songs to make Dogs Happy CDs a year to rescue organizations.

A lot of people have asked me how we came up with Songs To Make Dogs Happy ? the first musical CD approved by dogs for dogs. It was like this?

We had already produced a musical CD with a yellow head Amazon parrot named Carla and had progressed on to creating and producing a musical CD with Koko ? the only lowland gorilla in the world who understood English and communicated through a variant of American Sign language.

Working with Koko was our first real experience in interspecies communication and it blew us away. Koko vetted all the songs and we actually had to change lyrics because Koko didn?t like them.

We were hooked but didn?t know any other animals who understood English and communicated through sign language. That only left one thing. We had to find a Dr. Doolittle to translate for us.

That?s where Dr. Kim Ogden - the animal communicator came in. we saw her on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and called her. I asked her if she thought she would be able to act as a translator for us to see if we could directly involve animals in the process of creating music. She said, ?Absolutely!? So Songs To Make Dogs Happy was born.

Over a period of 6 or 7 months, Dr. Kim tested out various genres of music on a CD we provided on test focus groups of dogs in some of the shelters she helped out on regular basis. She did the same with her private clients. We based lyric content of the CD on Dr. Kim?s going back through her files for the past seven years and ascertaining the subjects that most interested dogs. We then created the music based on the dog?s responses as translated through Dr. Kim.

A lot of people thought we were a little crazy to employ an animal communicator ? myself included. After working with Dr. Kim I have to say I am now a total believer and tell everyone if they have problems with their animals they should at least think about going to a communicator. You?d be surprised how many there are.

We finished the CD, tested it out for a year and found out ? to our delight ? dogs loved it. It helped with separation anxiety, worked for traveling with your dog, is used by shelters to calm and cheer up animal in their care and believe it or not, is used by Vets to help dogs in recovery. Turns out that working with an animal communicator to help us create music for dogs wasn?t such a bad idea. The dogs loved it and we did too.

One other interesting real world aspect came of our musical project with dogs and a communicator. We ended up helping dogs to get adopted from shelters.

Because our communicator put most of her focus groups together at no kill shelters a very cool thing happened.

Dr. Ogden has a very definite procedure when she does consultations, whether they?re focus groups or single consultations.

She asks only the dogs name and what you would like to know. She then consults with the animal and writes down what is related to her and then shows you what she?s written, which is exactly how she tested the focus groups.

Normally when Dr. Kim was testing with the focus groups she would question 10 to 13 dogs at a time. She would then call me and tell me the results of that session.

After one of the sessions there didn?t seem to be as much information as usual, I asked Dr.Kim why.

She said she only consulted with four dogs.

I asked why she only got to four dogs ? not the usual 10 to 13?

She told me that they started talking about other stuff.

It seems the shelter asked her to talk to four of their hardest to adopt animals to see if she could find out anything. She talked to them but has to leave unexpectedly. She forgot the papers with the information she had received from the dogs at the shelter and thought nothing more of it.

Two weeks later, unbeknownst to Dr. Kim, I received a letter from the shelter telling me they used the information Dr. Kim had gotten from the hard to adopt dogs and all of them were now adopted.

The dog they particularly spoke of had been adopted three times without success. It had gone home with three different families and hadn?t worked out with any of the three.

The notes that Dr. Kim left concerning that particular animal stated that it wanted to be with a white, single male ? for whatever reasons. As soon as the shelter adopted it out to a white, single male the dog stayed happily put. The people at the shelter were flabbergasted! So were we.

So it turned out that we not only were creating music that dogs liked using the direct input from dogs as we had set out to do, we had inadvertently found a new way to help the adoption rate at shelters. We now suggest to shelters everywhere employ the services of animal communicators in their immediate communities to help them adopt out more animals than ever - a very practical sidebar validation to creating music with animal communicator.

Maybe next time we can go into using multiple communicators to create music with wild animals ? like Pink Dolphins in the Amazon Rain Forest. Or we could look into the fascinating life and music of Koko the gorilla. Animals are all sentient creatures and when you get to work with them through an intuitive communicator you learn one thing for sure ? animals say the darndest things.