SHELLY HOWLEY, Telepathic Animal Communicator
Owner of Healing Human Paws in Maryville

How she communicates: “I try to contact the animal wherever it is from my home. I ground myself, breathing in the life air, the life energy, and I picture my heart opening up like a door. I become totally relaxed and I call out the pet’s name. I always introduce myself and ask if it’s OK to talk. Animals talk to me in words, pictures, feelings, emotions, scents and sentences. Sometimes it’s a jumble and I have to ask the owner to clarify what the animal is talking about.”

Our little secret: “I don’t like snakes. One time a client asked me to talk to one, and I just couldn’t do it.”

Shelly Howley sometimes goes to a party in Maryville with her husband, an engineer, and talk will turn to work. “I’ll tell someone, ‘I’m an animal communicator,’ and they’re like, ‘No, really,’ so I’m like, ‘OK, I’m an accountant.’”

In reality, starting two years ago, Howley has spent more and more of her time telepathically communicating with animals. “That’s when I finally figured out, ‘I’m an adult now, I don’t have to worry if people look at me funny.’”

Howley conducts individual communications and teaches workshops to help others use psychic communication to correct behavior problems, locate animals, and diagnose health issues.

“When I was little, I was very connected to animals, and my parents dragged me off to the child psychologist,” says Howley. “One of the messages I give in my workshops is that it’s okay to communicate with animals. A lot of time people’s telepathy is suppressed, maybe for religious reasons. But everybody has psychic ability if you want to use it…”

If people prefer to tap Howley’s ability instead, they’re most likely to ask her to find out why the cat’s not using the litter box, she says. “That’s the most common problem. The second question I ask the most is, ‘Are you happy?’”

Howley has also had success with locating lost animals, using a psychic technique known as “dowsing,” where she swings a pendulum over a map. “I see areas where the animal has been or is now,” she says, “Sometimes I find an animal is not returning home due to something the owner does that the animal does not like, for example, smoke.”

Pets do confide some personal
things about their owners, says Howley, but she doesn’t relate them unless it will help the relationship between the two. “I have had pets say their owners dress them in ‘other’ clothing or that they sing in the shower and in the car and it’s horrible,” she says. “They tell me about owners dressing them up, and they hate that. Baby talk is another one…they hate that, too.”

This pet psychic is the first to say telepathic sessions are not always 100 percent right. “Sometimes communicators funnel some of their own energy into the conversation. Like me, if I was talking for myself, I would always tell people to listen to Eddie Money. I love Eddie Money.”

Howley talks to her own pets, too, including five cats, two dogs, and two sock-stealing ferrets. She says her constant companion Sadie, an 8-year-old Jack Russell/rat terrier mix, is “not real friendly, but very loyal.”

In her workshops, Howley encourages people to try to talk to a whale or dolphin, to get in tune with the wild, wild world of animals. “When I talk to one of them, they’ll say, ‘You know, these oceans do not belong to you.’

“Animals will tell you how to treat them better, but they also let you know how to live, how to be your best self.”

By: Rose Kennedy

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The Metro Pulse's Pet's Results:

Interview Subject: Sandy, border collie
Owner: Clint Casey, general manager
Background: Sandy is roughly 6 years old, dividing her time between downtown and a farm on Strawberry Plains. I picked up Sandy from the rescue and she went through some pretty serious neglect issues. She’s been sprayed by a skunk damn near a dozen times in nine months.

Question: Do you prefer country life to city life?
Sandy: “I’m very happy, but I’m a dreamer. I’m really a couch potato, so the city is the way to go. The country seems really stressful for me.”

Question: What’s the appeal of being sprayed by a skunk?
Sandy: “The skunk is my friend. We play, he sprays. I guess I get too close.”

Question: Do you have a message?
Sandy: “Don’t take in a friend you really don’t want.’”

The Owner Says: Sounds pretty accurate and, at times, like a fortune cookie.

Interview Subject: Lily Marie, dog
Owner: Russ Torbett, account executive
Background: She is my only pet. I have had her for 3+ years since I adopted her from the Adopt-A-Pet shelter on Kingston Pike and Papermill.

Question: Do you really know the commands “Sit,” “Down,” “Stay,” “Let’s Go” or any other commands, or do you just hear some random noise?
Lily Marie: “I know what you want before you do.”

Question: Why do you always come in and interrupt “special time” with Daddy and his lady friends?
Lily Marie: “I didn’t realize that I do that.”

Question: If you could say one sentence to me, what would it be?
Lily Marie: “You need to slow down and relax. Enjoy the moment and stop worrying.”

Question: Why do you like to sniff and lick brake pads and mufflers on cars so much?
Lily Marie: “I don’t do that!” (smile)

The Owner Says: These are pretty accurate from what I thought Lily’s answers might be. Lily is kind of aloof and doesn’t realize what she is doing at times, she is so curious about all of her surroundings and the activities that may or may not involve her...However, we do need to work on one instance when she needs to be more aware and not interrupt. m

Interview Subject: Ebenezer, 9, pied cockatiel
Owner: Kevin Crowe, staff writer
Background: Other pets include Patches, Maggie Pie, and Bud (all pied cockatiels). I’ve had him since he hatched (he’s the son of Bud and Patches).

Question: Why does the caged bird sing?
Ebenezer: “The lady owns him, nobody sings, nothing is known to me outside of my environment. You don’t speak my language. Life would be so much funnier if you would give me the funnies to read.”

Maggie Pie jumped in and said: “Don’t mind him, we have it good…quiet, but good.”

The Owner Says: I have no idea who this lady is who owns my birds, but I wish she’d help pay for their food and toys. I’m also glad that Ebenezer is aware that he knows nothing beyond his environment. Very astute, if not approaching the spiritual, in bird terms, of course.

Shelly Explains: I suspect the “lady” is a female bird that Ebenezer is strongly bonded to. And it may be to that bird, what the other bird is doing is not singing, but speaking “bird” language that we interpret as singing….makes sense.