Music For Animals

Do you love your animal companions and sometimes wish you could better understand what they are feeling or thinking? Do you have questions about their behavior, health or emotional state?

People with these types of questions often consult an Animal Communicator.

Through the simple processes of concentration and love, Kim Ogden-Avrutik, Dr.P.H. uses her intuitive ability to pose your questions or concerns to the animal. She will hear what the animal is saying, feel what the animal is feeling, or see what the animal is seeing.

Dr. Kim then discusses this response with the human companion. Keeping in mind that animals are spiritual beings, just as we are, they often enjoy sharing their insights, wisdom, concerns or viewpoints with us. With this in mind, sessions may cover diverse subjects, including:

Learning if your animal is happy

Resolving behavior problems including litterbox & housetraining mishaps

Overcoming multiple animal household concerns

Discovering how you & your animal can help each other on this life-path

Helping animals deal with travel or a move

Dr. Kim has helped animals and their human companions throughout the world. Species communicated with have included, but not been limited to the following: cats, dogs, horses, rabbits, birds, fish, and lizards. All creatures including those in the human species can benefit from good, honest, wholesome, non-judgmental communication.

Dr. Kim’s book Ask the Animals: Life Lessons Learned as an Animal Communicator is published by Lantern Books.

Check out Dr. Kim’s active workshop and lecture schedule.

Kim Ogden-Avrutik, Dr.P.H. Animal Communicator

We had just finished making a musical CD involving Koko the lowland Gorilla who communicates through sign language and were looking for a pet psychic to see if we could involve other animals in music projects.

Most people never come into contact with a pet sychic much less ending up working with one to create music with animals. I didn’t always believe in pet psychics, or any psychics for that matter. When we first started working with Dr. Ogden my opinion of any psychic, much less a pet psychic was Dionne Warwick’s Psychic Network, cold reading and 976 numbers.

After I met and worked with pet psychic Dr. Kim Ogden my beliefs and attitude regarding pet psychics and the actuality of communicating with animals did a one hundred and eighty degree turnaround.

I found pet psychic/intuitive animal communicator Dr. Kim Ogden on World News Tonight. I called her and asked her if she thought she’d be able to act as a translator to see if we could involve pets in the creative musical process. She said yes on both counts.

In the six months we worked together on the CD I experienced some amazing revelations regarding pet psychics and communicating with animals. Aside from the fact we ended up creating a CD for dogs that dogs love – and helped us create. I learned things that I would not have thought possible regarding animals and how you can really communicate with them in far deeper ways than you would think possible.

Dr. Kim introduced us to a basic course in how animals think and some of the things that can be done using the services and talents of a pet psychic.

We learned that sometimes it’s necessary to make “deals” with animals such as – if you don’t stop chewing holes in the fence we’re going to have to send you back to the shelter – we don’t want to but that’s how it will have to be unless we can come to this arrangement. It sounds strange but I saw it happen many times when working with Dr. Kim and shelter animals. I even heard of people using pet psychics to make deals with termites to get them to leave a house they had infested.

We also found out that a pet’s name is extremely important to the animal’s physical wellbeing and relationship with its family. I saw Dr. Kim communicate names change desires – and the positive results in pets from dogs to parrots to mountain lions (yes, a mountain lion).

We now use pet psychics and intuitive animal communicators for many of our projects and for any problems we have with our own pets. We even advise animal shelters and rescues to use the services of animal communicators and pet psychics to help them adopt out animals and reduce the recidivism on returns and escapes.Pet psychics are people that can be as effective as any vet or animal psychiatrist – sometimes even more effective.

So before you return an animal to the pound because you can’t get them to stop chewing or any other problem you might like to try using the services of a pet psychic to find out what the problem is before you take any precipitous actions you might regret.

Sometimes all you need is someone who speaks the language – whether it’s dog or cat or parrot or rabbit the pet psychic fills the bill. There are thousands of pet psychics all over the country who would be more than happy to help you decipher messages from your best friends no matter what they are. You don’t even have to be in the same city. Pet psychics seem to work on an internet that doesn’t need computers.

If you need some help right now get in touch with Dr. Kim Ogden. www.kimogden.com.
She’s helped a lot people and animals that I know of – maybe she can help you and your pet.

Dr. Doolittle - for real.

We used a pet psychic in a process where she acted as a translator between us and dogs to create a musical CD that dogs liked.

I never would have been aware of this if I hadn’t started working with pet psychic Dr. Kim Ogden. It didn’t start out with the idea of helping shelters adopt out animals but came out of a musical process in which we used the talents and services of Dr. Kim.

It went like this. We gave Dr. Kim a CD of different kinds of music that she would take into shelters (and her private consultation) and play for the dogs. Then she would take notes on the dog’s responses and send them to us to use in creating our music.

We had never worked with a pet psychic before so the whole process was quite an education for us - and Dr. Kim. What relates to this article was kind of a byproduct of the musical process and the manner in which Dr. Kim communicates with animals.

The process she uses is quite simple. She asks the name of the animal and precisely what you would like to know. She then communicates with the animal and writes down the information she receives. She then gives you the paper and the discussion on what begins.

When we were writing the songs for the CD Dr. Kim literally put together focus groups of dogs (over two hundred) to test out the music genres and lyric content. She generally did this at the shelters she worked with questioning groups of from ten to twelve dogs at a time. She then would call me with the information she had gained and we in turn would use the info to write and produce the songs.

After one session I asked Dr. Kim for that week’s information. She told me that she hadn’t had a chance to test out the music because she had only talked with four dogs.

I asked her how come. She told they got into talking about other stuff.

Apparently the shelter had asked Dr. Kim to communicate with the four most difficult to adopt out animals. In the process Dr. Kim left the pieces of paper she had written the dogs comments on at the shelter and forgot about them.

Three weeks later I got a letter from the shelter thanking Dr. Kim for helping them adopt out the dogs she had spoken to. The shelter had used the information that Dr. Kim had written down and adopted the dogs out with no problem based on that information.

The dog I remember in particular was one that had been adopted three times and returned three times as incorrigible. The animal had been given to families three times. Dr. Kim learned that for whatever reason, the dog wanted to be with a single, white male. As soon as it was given to a single, white male it happily stayed adopted. The people at the shelter were amazed at how a pet psychic could make such a huge difference in how successfully their dogs were adopted. They now employ pet psychics on a regular basis to help make the adoption process far more successful than it has ever been.

When doing interviews we now advise shelters to use pet psychics to help in their adoptions and to find out more about the animals that come into their care.

We started out using a pet psychic to help us create music and ended up discovering a way to help animals find forever homes. It is a very cool thing.

Talk to your shelter about trying it out. There are pet psychics and intuitive animal communicators all over the country so finding one for your local shelter should be no problem at all

Pet psychics. You gotta love ‘em and the animals do too.

As soon as we finished creating a musical CD for Koko (the only lowland gorilla who understands English perfectly and communicates using a version of American Sign Language) we decided that we loved interspecies communication through music and wanted to try some more projects.

However, since Koko was the only animal we knew who understood English perfectly and could communicate her thoughts through sign language, the only option left to us was finding our very own Dr. Doolittle. So that’s what we did.

It took almost a year to find the right person but we finally saw her on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Her name was Dr. Kim Ogden and she lived in a suburb of Chicago – my hometown.

I called Dr. Kim and told her that our record label was the only label in the world that created music about and for animals and that now we were very interested in trying to create music with animals.

I asked her if she thought she could act as a “translator” to see if we could involve animals directly in the creative musical process. She said yes. She felt that our first attempt should involve dogs. Dr. Ogden is a doctor of public health so she wanted to research it quantitatively and quantitatively. She wanted to test a minimum of two hundred dogs for preferences in lyric content and musical genre.  I believe she ended up testing about 225 animals for us. This is excluding the more than a year of testing after the CD was released.

Dr. Kim went back through the past seven years of consultations with dogs and chose the top twenty things that her canine clients seemed to care about. These were used to define the lyric content of each song.

We then gave Dr. Kim a CD with twenty-three different genres and styles of music. Dr. Ogden took a boom Box to the shelters she visited regularly and played the different kinds of music for groups of up to 13 animals. She transcribed each session. We then created the rough song demos based on the dog’s responses as translated by Dr. Kim and the data she provided.

I won’t go through all the things we learned about dogs in creating this CD but here are a few examples:

• We couldn’t use side sticks or rim shots on our percussion tracks because they reminded dogs who came from bad neighborhoods of gunshots.

• Dogs LOVE Being happy. In fact they become physically ill in the presence of depressed or angry humans so don’t get angry or depressed around your dog if you can help it. Dogs also equated faster tempos with happy so we kept the tempos upbeat..

• We didn’t use the word “NO” in any of the songs. Dogs shut down when they hear the word “NO!”

• Sambas tested out the highest with our focus groups.

• Johnny Cash tested out the lowest. One of the dog’s comments (as translated through Dr. Kim) was, “That’s just a sad man talking.”  John was too sad for the dogs.

It was then time for our final pre-mix focus group. Dr. Kim came to Los Angeles and we held the session at a no kill facility we work with in L.A. called New Leash On Life.

We were going to hold the session at my house until I realized there was no parking, I didn’t have insurance and I was about to have fifteen dogs who didn’t know each other  sitting in my living room with their attendant 15-20 humans  beings. Almost the same logistics as a rock concert.  That’s why I called New Leash On Life and asked for help.

We had thirteen dogs involved in the New Leash group. Eleven shelter dogs and two pets. Each dog had a volunteer handler with a leash and a clipboard and pen for taking notes when Dr. Kim translated for each animal. It was kind of amazing that 13 dogs who didn’t know each other were sitting two feet away from the next dog and there was not one fight in the entire two hours the they were sitting in the room. I attribute this to Dr. Kim’s presence in the room.

The first thing Dr. Kim did was to introduce us, tell the dogs what we were doing and ask if any dogs didn’t want to participate. One dog didn’t and was taken back to his run. Another didn’t know what music was and Dr. Kim had to explain it to him.

Then Dr. Kim went from dog to dog as I played each song from the CD. She asked each dog what they thought, then dictated the dog’s response to it’s handler who wrote it down  on the clipboard to document it. She did this for each of the songs.

There was one comment that stuck with me. Remember. I wrote the songs. I’m singing the leads. And, I’m standing in a roomful of dogs playing songs for them and this dog says to Dr. Kim, “I’ve heard better”.

We did have to change one song called I’ll Be Back – which is what you should always say to your dog when you leave, even if it’s just for a moment.

As soon as that song began to play all of the shelter dogs lay down and got visibly depressed. Some of the handlers even began to cry. The shelter dogs knew there was no one waiting for them, You could see it.

The two pets loved it.

We redid the song and had Dr. Kim test it for us in Chicago and it passed – kind of.

We then did our final changes and mixes based on the responses of the focus group and released the CD. That’s another story. The one about how happily amazed we were when we tested Songs To Make Dogs Happy for over a year and found out that dogs loved it!