How to communicate with your fur baby, according to pet psychics

Are you having a ruff time communicating with your pet?

The Post spoke with pet psychics about how to best get your message across to your nearest and dearest animals so that they can better understand you — fur real.

Laura Stinchfield, an internationally renowned pet psychic, psychic medium and author who studied for years as an animal trainer, told The Post that when conveying a message to your pet, “what’s most important is that you’re just really clear in your mind and your body and the images in your mind about what you’re saying to them.”

Here are four easy tips straight from the pros.

Set a clear intention

A combination of being calm and focused, being clear about what you’re communicating and being cognizant of what emotions and images you are giving off to your pet can make the difference between talking at your fur baby versus truly talking to them.

Stinchfield, 51, gave the example of a dog that barks out the window when strangers pass by and how to effectively tell your pooch to stop.

While an owner’s instinct may be to say, “Don’t bark,” that can backfire.

“If you say,’ Don’t bark,’ what’s happening is that your mind is creating an image of them barking, and you have the feeling of them barking,” explained Stinchfield, who is bicoastal and spends her time between New York State and Ojai, California.

She said dogs will misinterpret the words “don’t bark” as “bark out the window.”

“So you can say to them instead, ‘Hey, when you are barking out the window,’ while picturing them barking out the window, ‘This makes me really upset,’” while picturing yourself being and feeling unsettled.

“But when you’re quiet and you’re looking out the window, that makes me happy,” Stinchfield said to tell your dog while imagining them looking quietly out the window and you feeling happy.

Create mental pictures and emotions

Stinchfield said she’ll then psychically share with her dog mental images of all the things that go by the house that are normal occurrences, like the cars, the mailman or another dog.

“Then I tell them, ‘The smartest dogs are dogs that can be quiet and just watch.’ And then I picture that and kind of feel the energy of that. And then I also feel like what that would look like and what that would feel to me if that was going on in the house,” she explained.

Pet owners can also use this type of communication before they leave their home for a short while, or if they go away on vacation “to relieve their anxiety a little bit,” Nicole Love, a 49-year-old pet psychic and energy healer from Humboldt County, California, told The Post.

“If you’re going to leave the house — you know, you’re going to do a couple of errands and then you’re going to come home — you can kind of show your animal these pictures. I’m gonna leave and then I’m gonna go home before dark,” Love detailed.

She said if you’re going on a trip, you can convey to them a mental picture of you being away for a certain number of nights and the location where you are going — for instance, one with palm trees.

You can then project an image of you coming home when you and your pet are together again.

Bust communication blocks

Stinchfield had a word of advice for pet owners who have a hard time seeing things in their heads.

“If you have a hard time picturing … stay away from ‘Don’t do this’ and just be really clear in what you’re saying with your words, and then your mind and your body will create the picture and the feeling naturally,” she said.

One of the biggest blocks people have when communicating with their pets is juggling all the distractions of our technological age.

“The problem with us today in society is that we’re so addicted to our phones,  we’re scrolling on Instagram, and then we’re checking our email, and then we’re stopped at a red light,” Stinchfield said.

“We’re so onto the next thing that we have to train ourselves to get back to the essence and frequency of calmness — that’s where the animals really reside … and if we want to get our message clear, we need to bring our frequency to that.”

Decode what your pet is telling you

Not only can people be better about clearly communicating with their pets, but they can also start to observe if their pet is trying to bring something to their attention.

The first step in getting a message from your pet is being super focused on how you think so that you’ll be able to identify whether you’re getting outside feelings or thoughts from your pet.

“If you know that the things that are flashing through your mind throughout the day, if you become really conscious, then you’re going to know if something else popped in,” she explained.

She gave the example of a person getting a toothache and thinking they have to go to the dentist — but the pain actually might be coming from the dog.

“What’s happening is that the animal is sending them the feeling of pain in their body, and it’s exhibiting it in [the pet parent’s] body,” she said.

“So you have to be asking yourself when you’re around your animal and you’re starting to feel something … ask the animal, ‘Hey, is this your pain?’” she explained.

Once people master their self-awareness and pinpoint whether a feeling is coming from them or their pet, they can start trying to talk to their pets and receive communication back from them.

“It can be a lot easier than people think,” she said.

Not only can people send messages to their pets, but they can send them loving energy,” Love, who does energy healing for people and pets, told The Post.

“Slowly just put your hands lightly on your pet and then just set the intention of, ‘I’m sending you love and wherever you need it in your body, may it go there, go wherever you need it,’” she said.

Back in October, The Post spoke with pet psychic Nancy Mello about how to tell if your pet loves you back.

Some of the signs dogs love you are that they like being close to you, they follow you around and they make eye contact. Cats that love their owners will rub up against them, put their tails against them and talk.

Both cats and dogs will put their paw on their owner to express their affection, Mello added.