Both kitties (Tala the Siamese and Steely the grey, Domestic long-hair tabby) are gone to kitty heaven. However, sometimes when I feel low or am ill and I am lying in bed, I can distinctly feel their footsteps walking over my bed and lying down beside me.
This is especially true for Tala who always used to curl up in the bend of my knees.
Steely was less inclined to cuddle, but would lie on the pillow and I feel him a lot less.
However, this is not something I always experience in a half-sleep or ill state, sometimes I can feel Tala when I am wide awake and just watching TV. It is a bit weird.
Now I know that this has a certain “woo” factor and I am likely feeling what I want to feel; but it is quite lovely.
My questions to you. Do you feel ghost pets around you? When and how do you feel them?
I have only ever experienced two ghost pets - and neither of them were my pets!
The first was when I was housesitting friends’ country cottage. It had timber floors, and one evening the sound of a dog walking the perimeter of the room I was in was so distinct, it should have freaked me out. Instead, it was just curious; and strangely comforting, rather than unnerving. Ghost dog did one lap of the room, and disappeared.
A day later, I heard on the grapevine that the dog of a friend of theirs had died around the time of the visit. He had often stayed at the cottage, so it seemed that he had come to bid a doggly farewell; I hope he wasn’t disappointed to find only me there…!
The second para-abnormal pet was a cat. Again, at a friend’s house, it walked the edge of the back of the lounge - and there was no mistaking the sensation of a cat walking. It happened to me, and was laughingly disregarded as a bulk package of woo by the home owner. Until it happened to her.
We figured it might have been her old cat, following her to her new house.
I haven’t had any visits recently, but I have been visited in the past by several of my departed pets.
One that particularly stands out: I had 3 Gordon Setters, Holly, her daughter Abbie and unrelated Corey. Gordons are all black and tan in color. Holly had passed on, so I just had Abbie & Corey left. I had them in my bedroom on a rainy day.
My mom called me into the living room and asked which one of my dogs was out in the rain, one of them had been looking in the back door at her. (Mom was semi-handicapped & didn’t walk much) My 2 remaining dogs were still in my bedroom, and there was obviously no Gordon Setter in the yard. My only thought is that Holly came to say hi.