Telepathy has two forms: the ability to transmit thoughts and the ability to read minds. Some even think that pairs of individuals may have special links, or psychic bonds which allow them to share thoughts. Haven’t you noticed how some couples can communicate without speaking? That’s just the weakest form of telepathy.
Sheepdogs are famous for their ability to work together in complicated tasks, where they may not be able to see or hear each other. Have you ever seen two such dogs guide hundreds of sheep from danger? It’s an amazing sight, as the two seem to know exactly where to place themselves in order to guide the sheep in the correct direction. Such teamwork is a rare thing even in the human worlds of sports and business.
Yours pets may share such a psychic bond. The techniques we describe below will allow you to explore their bond and, with training, to strengthen it.
You need to isolate the pets from each other, to eliminate the possibility that they are communicating by some non-psychic means. Keeping the second in another room should do. Show the first pet one of the Pet ESP cards, selected at random.
Keep that pet in place while you slip into the next room (where the second pet waits). Bring with you the five tasseled Pet ESP cards. Place them before your pet. She will chose between the five symbols by batting at or nudging one of the cards. If she chooses the same symbol as you showed the first animal, you have a match!
To be sure of your results, repeat this experiment ten times. If you get more than two matches, you have scientific evidence of a psychic link between your pets.
Do not give up hope if two pets seem not to share a bond. This does not mean that either one is necessarily lacking in psychic ability. Just as a man and woman may know each other’s thoughts without knowing yours, animals may share special links with only a very few companions.
The fact that the two animals you have tested do not share this link does not mean that they can not be friends. Most of us can not read our friends’ minds, at least not most of the time. Some can only in moments of great stress and emotion, and perhaps the same holds for animals.
In any case, the same techniques of positive reinforcement which we discussed in chapter two will work very well here. If you give rewards when the animals test well, they will learn to exercise their hidden abilities. Eventually, you may be able to train your pets to tell each other all sorts of tidbits about where they are, what they see and hear, all without words.