If I could talk to the animals

Dear Editor: Re: “Woman, 95, tells bear to get out of her kitchen,” (Okanagan Weekend, Aug. 4)

It has long been my belief that animals use telepathy to communicate between species. Telepathy requires eye contact. Many people who own both a dog and a cat will have noticed instances where the two animals make eye contact for a minute or two and then behave as though some sort of agreement or understanding was reached.

I used to own a friendly Golden Retriever who once made eye contact with a skunk. After a minute or so, the skunk retreated without spraying the dog and I am convinced that the dog communicated to the skunk that she was no threat and only wanted to make friends.

It is a well-known fact that women use both sides of their brain when speaking whilst men use only one side. My theory is that, before our primitive ancestors developed the ability to speak, they too used telepathy and that the area of the brain which women use and men don’t is the area linked to telepathic ability.

Men no longer use this area because they have no need of it but, whether they realize it or not, women subconsciously use telepathy to communicate with their unborn and newborn infants. The child learns the meaning of words because the words spoken by the mother are reinforced by telepathic communication to the child.

Most people, if confronted by a bear, panic which scares the animal. In the case reported in this article, the woman was used to dealing with bears and didn’t panic. She made eye contact with the animal and communicated her instructions.

The telepathic part of her brain transmitted the meaning of her words to the bear and the bear realized that he was in her territory and duly responded.

Just a theory. Brian Butler Penticton