other direction, a friend of mine was telling me about her friend’s cat, who will bring a ball to its owner when it wants to play fetch. This cat will literally retrieve the ball over and over. It loves this game as much as any dog, but that’s pretty weird behavior for a cat. Is this a common occurrence? It doesn’t seem to be, but as I said, I don’t consider myself the expert here. There are other cases you may be familiar with—the giant tortoise that “mothered” an orphaned baby hippo after the tsunami in Indonesia, or the crow befriending the kitten (there’s a cute video I’ve seen on YouTube). Are these examples of animals who have reincarnated with a “remembrance” of being a different species? Or are animals evolving, too, and are these stand-out examples of ones who have learned enough love not to be ruled by their traditional, instinctual fears, to be able to befriend and help others that are not of their kind? Stay tuned! These are great questions, which I hope to learn more about myself.
Can pets see ghosts?
Absolutely, they can. Haven’t you ever seen a dog that is just lying peacefully on the floor and all of a sudden, for no reason (or at least no reason you can see) the dog jumps up like it’s had its tail pulled or something and runs out of the room? Or haven’t you ever seen a pet—dog or cat or whatever—look like it’s looking at something that you can’t see? You try to get yourself into the same sight-line to look at whatever they’re looking at and there just isn’t anything there? They definitely are catching something that you ain’t getting! They may not see them all the time, even though spirits are with us all the time. But it’s not at all unusual for an animal to see a ghost.
I used to have a gray and black tabby cat that John and I rescued from a welding yard. Actually, there were two kittens, but we found a home for her sister and just kept the one. We named her Lucia, but one day we came into the living room while she was lying regally on the sofa and John said, “Look at her—looking like Madame Foo-Foo,” just something he made up, but it fit—she had so much attitude, she was looking like “I’m all that and a bag of chips.” It’s funny how those things go—you always think you’ve got the perfect name for your pet but end up calling her something else. From that day on we always called her Madame Foo, or just Foo, or sometimes Foofy. In any case, Foo had the run of the house, she could go anywhere she liked, but never would she venture into my office where I hold my appointments. It was just uncanny how she would avoid that area, clearly because of the spirit activity there. Frequently it happens that if I’m to do a reading for someone the next day, the spirits who want to connect with that person know this and will gather at my home the day or the night before! But they usually hang right around my office area. I’d always feel bad for Foofy just before I’d go do one of my big shows in Verona—lots of people, more than your average gathering of ghosts—and not staying in their usual area. Poor thing used to freak out. She could not find a place anywhere in the house that was a ghost-free zone! Really, that poor girl didn’t know what she was getting into when she came to live with John and me.
Can our pets come back from the Other Side? And if so, what would be the reason for this kind of visit?
Oh, It’s very common for a pet that has crossed to come back to visit “their person.” And it can be for many reasons. It might just be to comfort that person, to keep them company. It might be almost out of habit—pets often form very strong attachments to us just as we do to them. A pet might come back and make itself known in some way to try to remind us of something—even if they just want to remind us of them , and the love they had and still have for us. My friend Page, a writer in Manhattan, told me how on the one-year
Can pets see ghosts?
Absolutely, they can. Haven’t you ever seen a dog that is just lying peacefully on the floor and all of a sudden, for no reason (or at least no reason you can see) the dog jumps up like it’s had its tail pulled or something and runs out of the room? Or haven’t you ever seen a pet—dog or cat or whatever—look like it’s looking at something that you can’t see? You try to get yourself into the same sight-line to look at whatever they’re looking at and there just isn’t anything there? They definitely are catching something that you ain’t getting! They may not see them all the time, even though spirits are with us all the time. But it’s not at all unusual for an animal to see a ghost.
I used to have a gray and black tabby cat that John and I rescued from a welding yard. Actually, there were two kittens, but we found a home for her sister and just kept the one. We named her Lucia, but one day we came into the living room while she was lying regally on the sofa and John said, “Look at her—looking like Madame Foo-Foo,” just something he made up, but it fit—she had so much attitude, she was looking like “I’m all that and a bag of chips.” It’s funny how those things go—you always think you’ve got the perfect name for your pet but end up calling her something else. From that day on we always called her Madame Foo, or just Foo, or sometimes Foofy. In any case, Foo had the run of the house, she could go anywhere she liked, but never would she venture into my office where I hold my appointments. It was just uncanny how she would avoid that area, clearly because of the spirit activity there. Frequently it happens that if I’m to do a reading for someone the next day, the spirits who want to connect with that person know this and will gather at my home the day or the night before! But they usually hang right around my office area. I’d always feel bad for Foofy just before I’d go do one of my big shows in Verona—lots of people, more than your average gathering of ghosts—and not staying in their usual area. Poor thing used to freak out. She could not find a place anywhere in the house that was a ghost-free zone! Really, that poor girl didn’t know what she was getting into when she came to live with John and me.
Can our pets come back from the Other Side? And if so, what would be the reason for this kind of visit?
Oh, It’s very common for a pet that has crossed to come back to visit “their person.” And it can be for many reasons. It might just be to comfort that person, to keep them company. It might be almost out of habit—pets often form very strong attachments to us just as we do to them. A pet might come back and make itself known in some way to try to remind us of something—even if they just want to remind us of them , and the love they had and still have for us. My friend Page, a writer in Manhattan, told me how on the one-year
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