Kathy “Keek” Mensing | The Way I Hear Them

Published: June 8, 2009

I’m pretty sure that most people who pick up The Way I Hear Them, Stories of an Animal Communicator do so with a healthy dose of skepticism. I did.

But by page 27, I was hooked. Arvin, a little Shih Tzu who keeps his elderly master’s caregivers awake at night with his “screams,” suddenly sleeps soundly for 17 nights after a conversation with Missoula author and animal communicator Kathy “Keek” Mensing.

He’s worried about his beloved Grace, he’s ill himself, and he doesn’t like all the strangers in his house at night. The two have a psychic chat from afar, his behavior immediately changes, and continues to change with subsequent conversations.

And so it goes, with dogs, kittens, rabbits, a horse, and even the wild denizens living near her Miller Creek home.

Mensing, a former reporter, licensed psychotherapist and a long-time meditator, tried communicating with animals after she saw the phenomenon work for her own dog, Wheatie.

“I don’t begin to presume that I know how it works or why. I only know that once I get quiet, call in the animal by name or description, I just get a feeling – a sense – that he or she is listening,” she writes. And remarkably, in case after case, critters change destructive or perplexing behaviors and lost animals find their way home.

It’s enough to make this reader listen more closely to her canine pals – and wonder if we don’t underestimate the nonhuman inhabitants of our world.

The book was published by Pine Glen Publishing of Missoula, and sells for $14.95 softcover. Visit www.beardancing.com for details.

– Kristi Niemeyer