The Cats That Understood
I truly believe pets are psychic and super-sensitive, although perhaps not
all of
them - only a select few are given the "gift," the same as humans. I have
a friend
who had a gold-colored female cat. We were standing in the bathroom
talking, and
the cat was there, too. I happened to mention a recent story I heard from
another
lady friend about her cat - that her cat always drank from her bathtub's
dripping
faucet. Up until then, my friend never saw her kitty drink from anything
other
than her bowl. The next day, her cat was found in the tub drinking from
the
faucet!
On another occasion, I was "kitty sitting." It was winter and I keep my
house's
interior doors shut to retain heat, so I do not heat unused rooms. The
kitty,
Fluffy, wanted out into the hallway, so I tried to let her out. But then
she
hesitated; she didn't know which way to go, in or out. I said, "Fluffy,
you need
to decide. Do you want to come back in? She turned to look at me and shook
her
head no! With that, she turned and walked away!
This third story involves Fluffy's offspring, a male named Lance that
looked just
like her. I was talking to my lady friend on the phone. She mentioned that
"Tomorrow I will take Lance to the vet and have him 'fixed'." The next
day, Lance
disappeared and has not been seen since. I told my friend that Lance
probably
heard us and realized that this "line" of kitty needed to carry on, so he
moved
on. - S.F.
"Sister" Makes Her Presence Known
This true story happened to my husband, me and our 18-year-old daughter on
New
Year's Day, 2001. We had borrowed a digital camera from a friend to take
some
pictures of my daughter to put on the computer and send to relatives. It's
the
kind of digital camera that stores the photos directly onto floppy
diskettes. My
husband reached into a brand-new box of floppy diskettes we had just
bought and
started to take photos of my daughter. She posed in different areas, and
in one
shot sat on the floor by our bar. This area was the place our little
female fox
terrier named "Sister" had her bed and always slept. It was her favorite
place. We
had to have Sister put to sleep in March, 2000. It was a very sad day for
us all.
We did not know what we would find when we opened the file! We opened
it... and
there was a photo of our dog, Sister, lying in her bed! When we finished taking the photos, we put the floppy disk into the
computer and
brought up the picture files. Normally, all these files just have a number
beside
them like "MCV624" or something like that. We were all looking at the
computer
monitor when we noticed the last picture listed read "Sister"! We all
shouted,
"What?!" We just took that photo on a new disk and no one could have put
the word
"Sister" on that file! It defied explanation, and all three of us
witnessed it.
We did not know what we would find when we opened the file! We opened
it... and
there was a photo of our dog, Sister, lying in her bed! Needless to say,
we were
shocked! My daughter was so upset she almost began to cry and could not
eat her
dinner. We were all a little shaky!
To me, this is proof that animals do live on, and it was Sister's way of
telling
us that she wanted us not to forget her. I still hear her toenails
clicking
outside the back door on dark nights. It makes me wonder even more where
all
living things really go after death and how "communication" could be
possible. To
us, there is no other explanation of what happened that night. - Sharon S