Your Chubby Pet Will Tell Me They Want More Treats

Let the treatos rain from the sky

I’m an animal communicator and there is something that I have found. In a reading, your chubby dog will absolutely tell me they want more treats. Every time. With total conviction. As if it's a directive, not a personal preference.

And no, I'm not going to tell you to give them more treats.

This is the part about animal communication that surprises people the most. They assume that if I can hear what an animal wants, the next step is doing whatever that is. But an animal communication reading gives you the animal's point of view, and their point of view is not automatically what’s best for them. It's information. What you do with it is still up to you. Also, I’m pretty sure you already know that they want more treats.

I think about this every time I work with a dog who doesn’t like being groomed.

Before I did this work, I spent years as a professional groomer. I've stood on the other side of that relationship, holding the clippers, watching a dog brace the second they hear the dryer. When a client tells me their dog fights them at every grooming appointment, I already have a good guess at what I'm going to hear. And I usually do. The dog tells me the noise is too loud, the table feels unstable, being touched in certain places feels like an invasion, not a service. Sometimes they tell me flatly that they'd rather not, thank you.

None of that means the dog stops getting groomed.

A matted coat isn't a personality quirk, it's a health problem waiting to happen. So the conversation with the person isn't "should we keep doing this," it's "now that we know what's actually happening for them, how do we do this differently." Maybe it's a different groomer who works slower. Maybe it's breaking one appointment into three short visits instead of one long one. Maybe it's just knowing which paw to save for last because that's the one holding all the tension. The dog's dislike didn't get overruled. It’s helpful information to work with.

That's the whole shift. Animal communication isn't a vote. It's a translation. Your pet is still the one who wants what they want, and you're still the one who has to weigh that against their health, their safety. What changes is that you're no longer guessing the why behind the resistance. You're working with it.

I see this same pattern with cats and prescription food. A cat will tell me, without hesitation, that the food is boring, that the texture is wrong, that they'd rather eat almost anything else. That opinion is real and worth hearing. It's also not the final word, because that food is doing a job their body needs done. What the opinion is good for is narrowing down the fix. Maybe it's a different flavor within the same prescription line. Maybe it's the canned version instead of the kibble, or the kibble instead of the canned. Maybe it's found through trial and error with the vet's guidance rather than giving up on the food altogether. The cat didn't get a veto. They got a say in how it happens, not whether it happens.

So yes, ask me what your chubby pet thinks about their diet. I promise you, they have thoughts, and strong ones. But a reading was never going to hand them the keys to the treat jar. What it hands you is a better map of what's going on for them, so the next hard thing you have to do together goes a little smoother, with a little less friction on both ends of the leash.

That's not listening less. That's listening better.