Visits From Your Babies After Passing On Options

[dixmuffin]

Hi everyone. I just wanted to know...has anyone been visited by their furbabies after they've passed on??? I have and it is a truly remarkable experience-it really helps with the grief.

[jan]

Yes, I have had visits from my babies who have passed on!

The first dog we had to have put to sleep was our miniature schnauzer, Spike (we're not real original with names!). Spike died on January 4, 1999.

I know it was March - something of that year that I had the most intense dream! I was still having an incredibly bad time with Spike's death, crying every night, severely depressed, etc. The dream was I could see the back of my DH and I and Spike was sitting a little ahead and above us - right next to a closed door! Spike was staring intently at me - not angry (5 YEARS LATER I CAN STILL SEE THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE!) - just staring intently. In the dream I nudged my husband - he was doing something and not looking at Spike. I said, "Mike - it's Spike!" and he said "Uh huh" - tolerantly but like yeah, whatever. That was it - that was the entire dream. But, there's not a doubt in my mind that that was a visit to me from Spike and I believe he was telling me I had to let him go through that door - he needed to go through that door and somehow my grief and depression were keeping him here. I made a concerted effort after that to get ahold of my grief, because Spike needed me to do that before he could move on.

Spike lived upstairs - away from the other dogs (we had 8 others at the time) because they just got on the old man's nerves. We had a baby gate on the stairs to keep the other dogs from going upstairs and whenever Spike would wake up from a nap, he would shake his head and we would hear his ears flap and would get up to move the baby gate so Spike could come downstairs to get some water or go outside to go potty.

About 6 months after Spike had died, I was unemployed and was sitting here one day watching TV. All the dogs were here in the living room with me and they were all asleep. My back was to the stairs on the sofa I was sitting on when I actually heard Spike shake his head and flap his ears! The sound was so ingrained in me, I had halfway risen to move the babygate before I realized what it was I heard. I looked over and Phoenix (my lab baby who died last April) had actually woken up and she was looking up the stairs!!!!!!!!!! I kid you not! I looked at Phoenix and I said "Okay, you heard it too! I'm NOT going nuts!"

Our 2nd dog that died of old age was Duke, our 16 year old ##er spaniel. He died on August 22nd, 2002. Last Thanksgiving (2003), my husband and I were in the kitchen making Thanksgiving dinner and we heard a growl from up here in the living room. I stopped what I was doing and I said "That sounded just like Duke!" and my husband said "I just thought the same thing". So, we wished Duke a Happy Thanksgiving - I think he visited us then.

I have not had a visit yet from Phoenix. But, I know I will at some point.