You have a gift, a natural trait we are all born with, but in your case refined and more fully developed. Sort of like Dousing, or the ability to find water underground.
St.Francis of Assisi was also said to have that ability, allowing him direct communication with animals.
Just as with Meghan, your gift tells the animals that they have nothing to fear and will feel better by getting close to you. Maybe it’s a skill that can be taught.
It’s amazing to me how intuitive animals are. For example, my brother’s always had labradore retrievers throughout his life. His labs, a few generations of them have always taken to me and my brother always marveled how they would go crazy as soon as they knew I was visiting and wouldn’t settle down. They always wanted me to play with them and wouldn’t leave me alone as long as I was over. He currently has a sweet chocolate lab and same thing with her. My brother says she starts whining in the back yard before I can even park my car in front of his house. It seems she even knows what my car sounds like and and knows it’s me. My brother’s always marveled at how all of his dogs have acted the same towards me.
My son brought a cat home and I let him keep it. Although it was his cat it adopted me almost immediately and when my son moved out he asked if I would keep her. He said he thought it would break the cat’s heart if he took her away from me, so I kept her. She turned out to be the best little friend I ever had and she lived until she was 24. I miss that cat constantly.
My step dad had a minah bird and it talked, but only when it felt like it, however, whenever I came into the room this Minah would start whistling and talking a blue streak. It would start jumping around in it’s cage from perch to perch and talk and whistle up a storm. It only would do that when I came around, it amazed everyone. In fact, I was the only person this bird allowed to hand feed it and the only person it would perch on their finger.
I can approach stray cats and dogs if i want to. Even wild birds like crows and pidgeons land amazingly close to me and sit looking at me, and even look away so that you know they have no fear. that’s always been weird but really rather cool.
I do some dog sitting for my family members but other than my son’s hand me down cat, I’ve never owned an animal of my own. Weird hah?
I have a lifetime full of animal stories like this.