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Old 05-11-2009, 02:32 PM
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Hello All xxx

Not sure if this is the right place to put this. I would like to share something with you.
I read a thread on here tlaking about animal emotions, how they are so similar to ours.

My mom died just over 10 years ago. We had a cat and dog. Harry (the cat) was very independent, didnt like being around people.
After mom died, mitzy (dog) sunk into depression....a year or so later she had to be put to sleep through illness. But she lived till a good age.

Anyway, on the day off the funeral, the car arrived outside with mom, there were a lots of people outside, something harry does not like.
I heard people saying who's is that cat?? when i looked it was harry, making a noise i had never heard before...he was ignoring everyone, just staring at the hearse. I tried to call him, but he didnt listen.
When the time came for them to put moms flowers in with her, they opened the back, and Harry tried to jump into the back.
I have no doubt, he knew it was mom, and the noise he made was him mourning.
When we returned sometime later, he was still at the same spot.

Years later, i had a surreal experience with harry - almost psychic, he became quite old....one day i was in the garden and he came up to me, and stared at me for a long while, i stroke him...and just got this over whelming feeling of greif....i know he was saying goodbye. He walked off, and although i hoped he would come back, deep down i knew he wouldnt.

We learn so much from animals dont we. Thanks for giving me somewhere to share xx
Love Gilly xxx
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Animals are so more sensitive than we give them credit for.

I remember some years ago my Mom's next door neighbor died and at the same moment of death their dog give a horrendous howl which he keeped up, on and off for over an hour, then went to the top of the garden and would not go back in the house until they had taken his body away.
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I heard a story on a cat which lived in a aged home. ( Those homes you go to when your about dead?) He used to lay on the end of the bed of someone and within 24 hours they died. He only ever lay next to people when they were near death.. I think he was comforting them. So the staff knew when he picked a bed to contact the family.
I may have the exact details wrong but thats the gist of the story
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I heard a story on a cat which lived in a aged home. ( Those homes you go to when your about dead?) He used to lay on the end of the bed of someone and within 24 hours they died. He only ever lay next to people when they were near death.. I think he was comforting them. So the staff knew when he picked a bed to contact the family.
I may have the exact details wrong but thats the gist of the story
that's fascinating, A few years back i was taken to hospital as i was unwell, after the ambulance left my old dog Oscar howled and would not move off my bed. My son told me it was a long eerie kind of howl and the sadest he had ever heard.He was a very sensitive dog , rest his soul.




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