Mali and boo boos ~Psychic Animals pets~

[Hedgewitch]

I am not sure what passes for psychic in animals. I have a young service dog named Mali. I got her when she was 11 weeks old. I had a trainer come to my home to help with her training through advanced obedience and hand signs, since then I have done the rest of her training and Mali has passed all the rest of her tests with 100%. At this time, Mali is only 15 months old.

Mali had only had her harness for a couple of months. We were very proud of her, as she had passed the adult temperament test earlier than any other Shiloh so far on record. One day we were walking into the bank. I had Mali on a loose lead rather than holding onto her harness, I held onto my husband's arm, Mali was at healing on my left side. We walked passed an elderly woman walking a very slow shuffling step. Suddenly Mali broke healing position just in time to catch the elderly woman who was about to fall. I did not see she was going to fall nor did my husband or we would have reached out for her, but Mali seemed to know it was going to happen and braced herself to take the brunt of the woman's weight. Mali was all of about 11 months old at the time. (She was just a baby really in the Shiloh dog world, as they do not mature until they are 3 years old.)
Last fall Mali began doing something, which I found disturbing, but I could find no logical reason for it. She had never done this before and I had started to do research for the best way to break her of the new unexplained habit. She had started to jump up on me, though quiet gently and place her nose either in my chest or against my throat. Then not to long after, my spirit guides told me I was dying. The very next day, my daughter called me and told me her spirit guides told her the very same thing. I forgot about Mali's new seemingly bad habit and began to focus on this news.

I found out my thyroid was flip flopping, back and forth from hyperactive to hypoactive at least every three weeks and possibly more often. This flip-flopping, had caused my heart to enlarge and could cause me to have a heart attack or stroke at any moment. I will not go into what I did to take care of my medical issues, but it was here that I figured out what was going on with Mali. She had been telling me I had an issue with my heart and my thyroid all the time with her cold wet nose. As soon as I took care of my medical issue, she stopped her jumping issues.

Last month a woman came to visit me she has a service do who lets her know if she stops breathing at night and even sometimes when she is driving the car, as she just does not notice. We were sitting out back in my fenced in yard so her dog could be loose with my girls and play. My friend was on her way to a doctor appointment about an hour away and had stopped by for lunch and a visit. Mali just could not stop bothering my friend. I had to send her away many times. This was not like her, she loved to play with Blue, but we were so busy catching up I did not pay attention to the clues until Mali pointed it out with her cold noise. She came right up to my friend, put her cold noise right up against her left breast, and pushed in deep. At this point as I pulled Mali back and put her in a down stay, I looked at my friend and asked her directly why she was going to the doctor. She had a cyst at that exact spot on her breast. Since this time, Mali has alerted to sinus infections, and low blood sugar to both complete strangers; and me as well as, to getting very upset with me when I am out in the public and she knows I am in pain. Mali is a very vocal dog and her alerting in a quiet manner. Perhaps this is a good thing as her lack of being quiet makes me leave and go home earlier than I might have.

Some time has passed since I first typed this post and Mali has matured and she has done other things, which have amazed me and annoyed me to no end, as it is my body after all.

Last year, My family and I had to leave their house for awhile, as we had terrible water damage and mold happen so while it was being demolished and then repaired we all moved into a hotel. That's right, three cats, three giant dogs my family and I all in one hotel. Talk about fun! My room was their idea of handicapped accessible, but not mine. There was just not enough room for me and the dogs and my wheel chair to move around easily so I was on my feet far more than I should be. Here is what happened:

The second night at the hotel Steve was moving things from the car to the second room as the hotel somehow put us into a non-handicapped room the first night, when Mali had enough of my over doing it. She started to become very annoyed with me. At first I did not see the signals, I just thought she was under my feet as a hotel room is not the largest of places, but then she began to become vocal. I told her to hush. Pet friendly or not, I did not wish to be asked to leave. It was not until she grabbed me by the hand, leaving a small cut that she really got my attention. I still did not get it. I am THICK! I pulled my hand back, thinking she wanted to play rough, though she has never done this before, and wondered if stress had gotten to her. Then she grabbed me by my shorts and pulled me towards the sofa and pushed me down. Okay a light bulb moment. I got it at last: time to sit still, my service dog says so. She was correct. Every muscle in my body throbbed. I have fibromyalgia along with many other issues, and we did not yet have my wheelchair here.

When Steve got back and learned what happened that was it, I had to take it easy. Lucky everything was just about taken care of, as I would have done more, as life often dictates what one has to do.

When Mali learned she could medically alert to medical issues she became like a kid who just learned how to read and wanted to show everyone around them she could read. She started to tell everyone their boo boos. This means complete strangers who happened to walk past me. Their meant people in the doctor's office who were walking past when their names were called. I had to quickly teach her another command. This was a very important command.

The NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS command. She learned it very quickly, but still will look hopefully at me every time some sick person walk past us at the doctor's office, ears erect, head tilted, eyes bright with anticipation knowing surely I will let her help just this one time. Only to moan loudly when I give the command softly as she puts her head down and pouts.

In harness Mali is wonderful she is alert yet docile, but take it off and she is a completely different girl. She is rambunctious, bouncing, gotta go kind of girl, job seeking, playful, bone carrying, attention seeking, eye catching, joke playing, alpha, please rub my belly or better yet my ears dog.