She believes that animals, like humans, continually grow and learn, in their own time, in their own way, sometimes suddenly and drastically. Animals can be counseled and can change. They have their own lives and their own life paths to follow. Animals usually have physical and emotional needs for space, freedom, and exercise. Some sick animals want to be saved while others prefer to die.
Animals generally accept death and choose to die quietly and painlessly alone.
A sixth premise is that animals accept, have chosen, and are even grateful for their role in life as predator or prey. The author claims that prey will often offer their bodies without resistance, willingly, with their full consent. She also claims that predators present an unspoken gratitude to the animals who nourish them with their lives. A seventh premise is the synchron-icity of all the elements, the spirits of nature. Each of the basic premises described above come alive within the richly varied stories of real animals lives, thoughts, and telepathic communication with the author, her clients, and her workshop attendees.