Kate Shadock, animal communicator and intuitive healing expert, joins Neva Lee Recla to chat about how to talk with your pets and how to make sure you help them stay safe. Listen in as Kate shares her wisdom from years of working with animals all over the world.

Hi kids, this is Neva Lee Recla, your Super Power Kid. Today we’re here talking with Kate Shaddock. She is really, really cool. She can talk to animals, which is awesome, and she also can go inside of their bodies and see what’s wrong or if their sick or if they’re injured or anything. That’s really, really cool. So, without further ado, will you help me welcome our guest Kate Shaddock?

Hi!

Hi Neva!

How are you?

I’m doing great!

Awesome, awesome! So, I have a question for you.

Okay.

What are your super powers?

My super power is being able to hear animals.

Awesome!

The fact that I can work with animals like your cat or your dog, and I can work with lions and bears in a zoo, and I can work with buffalo and bison out in a field.

Awesome!

Yeah.

It’s really, really cool.

See this is what’s fun. I get to work with all different kinds of animals. I’m not working just with dogs and cats.

I like that … Wait, so you’ve worked with lions and bears, right? Have you worked with tigers?

Yes. Tigers are wonderful to work with. I like tigers even better than lions. ‘Cause I think tigers are smarter. They are real impressive but I think tigers are actually a smarter cat.

But the camel, somebody called me and said can you drive like 95 miles to meet this camel? And I said, I could, why would I want to? ‘Cause you kinda have to get sensible at some point and they said, “Well we need you to help with the camel” and I said “Well, take a picture, send me a picture”. That’s all I have to have is a picture.

Wow!

And so they sent me a picture of the camel, and what they were doing with the camel is they would dress him all up with this fancy headgear and the saddle and he looked like something out of a Rajah’s … Like a caravan across the Sahara desert in Africa. They would take him to different places like fairs, and petting zoos and places like that to help raise money. So the places that would invite him, anyone who wanted their picture taken with the camel would pay $5.00, and the zoo or the fair grounds, they would get $3.00 of it and the people who took care of the camel would get the other $2.00.

So it worked out pretty nice. It was kind of a way for the camel to help earn his keep. They were worried that maybe he didn’t like having people come look at him. This camel was a show off, and he loved having people come look at him! And he loved having people see him in all of his glory with all of his decorations and everything.

I don’t know if I were a camel that I’d like to wear a bunch of decorations.

You and me both, but this camel, he was a show off! So he loved it! What made him such a cool camel … A lot of animals don’t like someone walking around underneath them and messing with their feet and stuff and this guy he was so sweet, he was so gentle, little kids could touch his feet. And camel feet are huge, I mean they’re like yea big, and they could touch his feet, they could touch his knees, he was like whatever.

Whatever.

He obviously thought he was gorgeous, he was perfectly happy.

Wow!

The people who owned him were very grateful because they were thinking about retiring him, but when they realized that he had such a good time doing it, that they didn’t retire him.

Cool.

Have you ever done any work on your own animals?

Yes. I work on my own animals pretty regularly. Like, one of my kitties likes to throw up every now and again. And so if she does it a couple times, then I have to say okay what’s going on. And I’ll talk to her and sometimes she just … And it’s funny when they’re your own animals sometimes it’s kind of like talking to your 14 year old daughter, it doesn’t work real well.

So sometimes I have to have some of my friends who talk to animals, I have to have them talk to them. I know, it’s silly, I do this for a living but I have to have somebody else talk to my animals. Well you know, sometimes you don’t tell mom something but you might tell your aunt, or a good family friend, you might tell them kind of thing. But yeah I do work on my own animals.

When I adopted my little dogs, I’ve only had them for a year, I worked with them a lot, because they had kind of a hard time before they came to me. I had to help make them know that they were totally safe and they’re totally okay and nothing’s ever going happen bad to them, to make them really feel secure.

That’s what we did with our dog.

It’s important!

Yeah! It’s important for them to know they are safe and loved.

Yes.

That’s what I tell Callie when someone comes over to the house, I say you’re safe, you’re loved, your fine, you’re safe.

Yeah. And the thing that’s fascinating about animals, they’re usually so much smarter than we are about people. If you run across somebody that your dog doesn’t really like, then you want to pay attention.

Yep.

Because the dog may know something you don’t.

Yep, exactly. It’s kind of like a dolphin. Dolphins … Most people say that dolphins are smarter than humans.

Oh yeah, well I’m afraid I think a lot of animals are smarter than humans.