Animal telepathy

I am reading a fascinating book titled "Life after Death" by Deepak Chopra and I am flabbergasted by what I found on page 215. I quote:

Many pet owners will attest to the ability of a dog or cat to know what the owner is thinking. A few minutes before going on a walk, a dog gets excited and restless; on a day when a cat is going to be taken to the vet, it disappears and is nowhere to be found. These casual observations led the ingenious British researcher Rupert Sheldrake, a trained biologist now turned speculative thinker, to conduct controlled studies to fuind out if dogs and cats actually read their owners minds. One study was very simple: Sheldrake phoned sixty five veterinarians in the London area and asked them if it was common for cat owners to cancel appointments because their cats had disappeared that day. Sixty four vets reported that it was very common, and the sixty fifth had given up making appointments because too many could not be located when they were supposed to come in.
Sheldrake decided to perform an experiment using dogs. The fact that a dog gets excited when the time comes to go for a walk, means little if the walk is routinely scheduled for the same time every day, or if the dog gets visual cues from its owner that he is preparing to go out. Therefore, Sheldrake placed dogs in outbuildings completely isolated from their owners; he then asked the owner, at randomly selected times, to think about walking their dogs five minutes before going to get them. In the meantime, the dog was being videotaped in its isolated location. Sheldrake found that when their owners started thinking about taking them for a walk, more than half the dogs ran to the door wagging their tails, circling restlessly and keeping up this behaviour until their owners appeared. No dog showed anticipatory behavior, however, when their owners were not thinking about taking them for a walk. (See Rupert Sheldrake: "The Presence of the Past: Morphic resonance and the habits of nature", Park Street Press, 1995.)

According to Deepak Chopra, this suggests that the bond between a pet and its owner creates a subtle connection at the level of thoughts. Polls show that about 60 percent of Americans believe they have had a telepathic experience, so this result is not completely startling.

Having read this about animal telepathy, it is difficult to believe that many dog owners still believe that the problems they have caused for their dogs can be solved by "training the dog".

I am very curious to know if you #fname have experienced subtle connections with your dog at the level of thought.
Come on, drop me a line.