Hi everyone
Pleased to meet you. I wanted to ask a question. I'm researching a book, and I'm finding some amazing evidence of pets having souls. So, I wondered what do you think? Do they have souls?

Jenny

i believe they have souls i actually think they have much more stronger souls than humans because they are so kind genourous and forgiving. this is an interesting thread and i shall have to keep track of it :P
sorry i have no evidence
xxx

Hi Jenny

Yes, animals have souls, or spirit, sentient otherworldlyness. What do I base this on? Other than reading accounts, both human and animal related I've had first hand experience of it, perhaps like many others who have had close animal companions and they die.

I recall one instance especially. About 10 or so years ago my cat, Oscar, died. He was around 10 years old, and had been suffering with a stomach tumor (if I recall correctly). He had been visiting the vet a few times, who only could alleviate some of the discomfort. Oscar got much worse, and the kindest thing to be done was to be put to sleep, though this was never discussed as such. The night before Oscar went to the vets I had stayed up with him most of the night, he was purring in a strangly serene manner. The next day he went to the vet who put him on a drip. Over the next night Oscar passed away whilst at the vets. It was a Saturday.

Forgive the length, but this leads up the experience I had. Of course being thoroughly upset I took Oscar's parting very badly. He was a very good buddy, a gentleman cat and faithful, I was very close to him and loved him I guess. About 6-7 months after Oscar's death I was in bed, having woken up in the morning. I sensed something jumping up on the bottom of the bed, then sensed very slight ethereal foot treads going up along my back, which then settled near the pillow where my head was resting. It almost felt as if something had touched my head, as if a nudge, or sniffing, a breath?

Then the feeling of something moving away, then jumping off the bed, no sounds at all though. I thought to myself it might be one of the cats as we still had 3 others, and thought one was in the room. So I turned over, removing the covers to see if one of the cats was there. There was no cat, and the door was shut, so a cat couldn't possibly have entered the room. This experience must have lasted no more than 30 seconds, I had not been thinking about Oscar, nor anything really. It was over 6 months since his passing.

Why do I think this may have been Oscar visiting? Well it suddenly struck me that this experience was exactly what Oscar used to do many, many times when alive. Especially coming up, walking along the bed to where the pillow was and my head, purring in my ear, to say good morning! The other thing was when Oscar died at the vets he was in essence alone, I had not said 'good bye' to him as a finality. I can't help thinking that he wanted to 'see' me or me 'see' him to say he was OK, happy, free from pain or just passing to visit from curiosity, or sensed that he was very close to myself and chose to say 'Hello'!

I never had another 'visit' like that from Oscar, if it was, I was not asleep, nor was I or had been thinking about him around this time? I can only base it on what I knew Oscar's habits were in life, and this is what I recall about this experience - that it was exactly like Oscar, at least in spirit.

There are other, more subtle, experiences, I've had. One was with another cat who had passed several months before - though it was not as vivid as with Oscar. Other experiences with cats where you certainly know there is something going on behind those eyes.

So, yes, souls they have, or at least how those sensitive to it pick it up as spirits. There is no finite proof, but by all accounts suggest something is going on here. Something that 'science' will never get to understand?

Thanks

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I have a very nice crown, its big and it has a gheco on it, have i got it on murray??

i used to live in the attic room of a tudor house years ago and every night when i turned the light out an invisible cat used to jump up on my bed start padding , circle then lye down it wasnt scxarey or owt more cute ............ i had my very own jasper the frienly ghost cat ......... ive picked up on other peoples dead pets too eek:

do you know i cant beleve u said that...ive experienced the cat on the bed circleing...and my cousin has also experienced the same.

i wonda if its the same as the black dog jumping on people??? my mum experienced that one.

yes i do beleve animals have souls.

i just think some souls dont move onto the next dimenssion

I definately think cats and other animals have souls. xx

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Bralex

My old cat has been seen sat by me several times by a spiritulist so there must be something in it all..........

I've had a few slight experiences - nothing like a cat sat on the bed or anything but sometimes I get a feeling or see something out of the corner of my eye and know who it is - if that makes any sense? x

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Bralex