Do You Believe the Spirit Lives on After Pets Die?
by Mumzee on Oct 22, 2008 with 5 Comments
It took many years of reading and listening until I decided that the spirit of my dearly departed pets live on. I offer you a brief look into how I came about my decision.
There are a lot of pet owners out there. I tend to wonder how many of them believe that their pet’s spirit lives on after their body expires here.
I happen to be one of those individuals. It wasn’t until I reached my 20’s that I even gave it any thought, although I had grown up with animals all my life.
I had certainly experienced the loss of family members and had been exposed to the concept and belief of a human spirit going to heaven or to hell for that matter. Some religions do not believe that animals continue on while others feel that they do. In any case, I’m amazed at my own lack of opinion in this matter since I have always been such an animal lover. Well, that was the case until I hit my late 20’s.
I had been hoping for many years that I could be convinced there was an afterlife. Even though I experienced many strange encounters throughout my life time, seeing or hearing something that can’t be explained did not convince me that there was a heaven or a hell. It convinced me that there was some type of activity by ghosts or spirits though.
In any case about 10 years ago a friend of mine called and said she just read this very interesting book by psychic Sylvia Browne. It was her autobiography titled, Adventures of a Psychic. I didn’t want to buy it so I found it in my local library. I found it to be most interesting and proceeded to check out several more of her books. As a result I wound up buying 10 or so of her books and enjoyed reading all of them.
It was from there I decided that I believed a great deal of what she had to say. It was like it just felt accurate to me. With my life being filled with so many experiences of the unexplained and down right spooky, her words were hitting home sort of speak. Now don’t get me wrong I had already explored into all of this, but for whatever reason, Sylvia made sense to me.
So do our beloved pets go home to the other side when they die, or do they just stop existing all together when they die?
I have lost a great many pets in my lifetime and it wasn’t all that long ago when I lost the latest. She was a very old and very loyal dog. Calm and gentle too. She was the oldest of our four canine friends. She held the high status in the family pack. Her loss was disturbing for everyone. Her resting place is on our property and her surviving family visits her often.
I believe she visits us regularly as well. The familiar sound of her nails on the kitchen floor and the sound of her flapping long ears ring through the house at the most unexpected times. The response of the other dogs out of the blue indicating something is near. It’s hard to dismiss signs from someone or something that we have invested love and admiration for. Maybe we choose to believe these signs are real when they are not. But, for me I am a believer and I have to follow my heart, mind and experiences.
I believe the spirit lives on forever.
What do you believe? Have you even asked yourself that question? Does it matter to me what you believe, no. What matters to me is that through life you simply ask, “why”, and if you don’t feel you’re getting a satisfactory answer then keep asking.
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KT | Oct 22, 2008 | Reply
I believe that the spirit lives on forever as well. I too, have felt the presence of our sweet beloved animal friends, that have moved on, in our home, and around us on many occasions. It’s always such a warm feeling to me. Their spirits will always be with us, and I feel that we will see them all again one day.
lois | Oct 23, 2008 | Reply
I would sure hate to be alone in the afterlife without all my beloved pets, i think maybe God has collected all the souls of our lost pets and we will be reunited with them, I am sure that God holds dear and near the love we have for his creations, and one of our rewards will be to be with them again, if we, mere mortal humans are capable of so much love for them , surely God loves them a thousand fold more than we are capable of.
susan | Jan 27, 2009 | Reply
One week ago today, I lost my beloved companion and most loving and loyal dog. It was an accident where my boyfriend thought she had jumped into the car with our other dog. He went about three blocks before he realized that my dog Sallymae who was a toy poodle was not in the car. He turned around and raced back to go get her, and saw her lying in the road. He had run over her as he left to go home. We are both devestated over her loss. She never barked and did not have a mean bone in her body. All she ever wanted was to be held and loved. My boyfriend buried her in the back yard by one of his pine trees. When ever our other dog,Molly goes out side in the back yard she just stands in the middle of the yard and lifts her head up to the sky and stares for several minutes. I believe that she can feel sallymaes presence. The two of them had never been apart from each other from the time i got sallymae 2 years ago. Do you think that sallymae is still with us? I believe she is.
Leon & Susan | May 12, 2009 | Reply
Life’s NOT Over !!!
Please look at these photo’s about our little “angel” dog. She passed away on the 23rd of March, 2009. She’s still with us.
Herewith: http://dearlypetsinspirit.webs.com/lifesnotover.htm
God Bless
Judy Tyler | Nov 5, 2009 | Reply
I had to put down my sweet, beloved Ginger (a lab/Shepherd mix) on Sunday, November 1. She was approximately 15 years old and I rescued her in June of 1995.
On Tuesday morning, when I was still in bed resting, I heard a sound like the clink of something metal on the dresser in my bedroom. When I got up later, I saw that the noise had been made by the dog tag for one of my dogs (I have two remaining dogs — all 3 were rescues) issued by the Dept. of Animal Services. I assumed, for some reason, that it was the dog tag for either Toby or Penny (my other 2 dogs) and didn’t think about it for the rest of the day. Late in the afternoon, I started to think about why the dog tag had made that funny clink on my dresser out of the blue when it had been sitting up there for months — and if it had fallen down from something (like my stack of CD’s or books that are on the dresser), why did it fall down that Tuesday morning, 2 days after Ginger’s death? Then I looked at the dog tag license number and went to Ginger’s file — and sure enough, it was Ginger’s dog tag. I knew she was sending me a message that her spirit is with me and that she is okay, and that I should feel happy that she is free to run and play — not inhibited by her previously debilitated body. Has anyone else ever experienced this kind of sign from their beloved pet?