Finding Weezy: When Communication Helps Bring Them Home

Working with missing animals can be both meaningful and complex. Animals don’t communicate in human language, and they don’t think in terms of street names or landmarks the way we do. Instead, they share impressions — images, sensations, emotions, environmental cues — pieces that guardians then interpret alongside practical search efforts.

Early in my animal communication work, I had the opportunity to help with a missing dog named Weezy. I was able to connect with him quickly, and he seemed eager to communicate what was happening.

The strongest impression he gave was that he hadn’t gone far from home but had become physically stuck. He showed me the sensation of being midway down a slope, unable to move comfortably. I repeatedly saw flowing water below him — something he could both see and hear — along with a tall, light-brown wooden structure positioned slightly uphill from where he was.

He also emphasized discomfort in his back legs, consistently indicating that they were off to one side and that he couldn’t get himself upright. That sense of being trapped came through very clearly.

As I relayed this information to his guardian, he began searching nearby areas that matched those impressions — particularly locations near water and construction sites.

For two days he searched creeks, riverbanks, and nearby terrain. Late on the second evening, while checking a creek bed just a couple of blocks from home for the second time, he happened to glance uphill and saw Weezy exactly where the impressions had suggested: halfway up a slope, back legs displaced, near a two-story home under construction with exposed plywood walls.

Weezy was safely recovered.

Experiences like this illustrate how animal communication can complement practical search efforts. It’s not about replacing flyers, social media, scent tracking, or boots-on-the-ground searching. Rather, it can provide additional perspective — emotional state, environmental impressions, and sometimes clues that help narrow focus.

Most importantly, it reminds us that even when animals are lost, they’re often trying to communicate in the only ways they know how. Listening carefully, from multiple angles, can sometimes help bring them home.