Messages from 'beyond'?

[mwaters]

After reading Dennish's post about Sammy and seeing a rainbow right around the time he passed got me thinking...

Have any of you experienced something similar after losing one of your Rotties?

After I had my Angus put to sleep (Cancer ) my hubby and I were driving home from the clinic. We live way out in the country and as we were driving could see a storm on the horizon...more lightning that I have ever seen...looked like it was right over our house...the light show continued with loud thunder and lots of flashes until we got home...then it quit. Always wondered if it was my boy...saying goodbye...or maybe establishing his Alpha status on the other side of the bridge...

Anyone else have a story to share?

Melissa

[StephanieandToby]

All I know is that the days following Toby's death were just beautiful...Cool, sunny...the water on the ocean was calm...just like glass...

Writing this, I miss him so much...I just had a surge of grief.

[kala]

I've always received "messages from beyond" from my dogs. I see rainbows, usually right after one of mine have been put down, and living in the desert rainbows are hard to see most of the time.

The strongest message I have received just after letting go a dog wasn't from one of mine, but a good friend's Min Pin. Buddy decided months earlier that I was his best friend, he bit most people. The day when it was it time to let him go (he was about 14 years old and had cancer) I drove him to the vet and met my friend there. When he was gone I was driving home, the windows were up in the car, and whole car was filled with the scent of flowers. I have never experienced anything like that before. I took it as a sign that Buddy was ok and he was saying thanks for the gift of setting him free from his worldly bonds. I told my friend the next day and she agreed that he was just saying "good-bye and thanks for the love". The area I was driving through is kind of a seedy part of town so there were no flowers growing along the street so that is no explanation to the wonderful scent in my car.

sue

[spoiledbabies3]

WOW....this one really touches home and tugs on the heartstrings. After we helped Sasha cross the bridge in Feb (lymphoma ) I came home and just laid in the floor with my 2 boys (also rotties) and cried. It was really difficult. Both of the boys were laying in front of me and I had my back to the sofa...and I could actually feel panting and breathing behind me. I even reached back out of habit...and then I realized she wasn't there. Very eerie...

I've always thought that it was her letting me know that she is okay...you see, she was always the one that comforted me when I would have tears...she would just come up to me and lay down right in my lap and just kiss me and nuzzle. She was my girlie all right! And she's still my girlie...I believe she sent me a new little one to love and take care of...a 5 m/o little rescue (Deja Vu) that just joined our family this past weekend.

Crazy ...many have called me...but I do believe that our beloved fur babies are waiting for us at the bridge...and they do what they can as rottie angels to help us cope with the pain of losing them.

[livertw]

After my beagle Toby died at age 17, we heard his little wrrrrrrrffff at 4 AM for about a month. He needed to go out during the night for a quick piddle when he got old, and we joked that he was out and then back in his bed before we turned the light off and plodded back upstairs. He definitely hung around for a while before settling in at the Bridge.

[Lola B Marie]

When our 10 year old girl died during surgery, I was such a mess there was no consoling me. I was non stop crying. She died in November but even so, I decided to take a walk on the beach where we walked together from the time she was a pup. Sheena had a rottie trot but always dragged one nail along the ground. We always knew when she needed her nails trimmed because we could hear her padding along the floor.
When I got down to the water's edge, I saw a full set of dog prints leading into the water. Every few steps, there was a nail dragging print in the sand. There was no one around and especially no other dogs. I stood there watching as the ocean erased the prints. I never saw them again and am convinced they were hers, saying goodbye.

[flyballmom]

Well...besides the story of how I came to have Blitz...

The night of the day I had Charleigh PTS, Blitz (then 5 months old) was in her crate, Omen was in bed with me, Jetta was in her crate in my moms room. My mom was out of town. I was wide awake...and I heard Charleigh's favorite toy. It was a huge stuffed turtle with squeakers in the feet, and a "grunter" in the middle. I'd left that toy on the floor...and I heard it grunt. I was wide awake and I KNEW the whereabouts of the other dogs. The following morning I was sitting at my computer, which is kitty corner to my bedroom door. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a shadow, then a shape take off down the hall. It was real enough that I got up to follow. That particular thing happened a few times.

[Mavides]

I'm so glad that this thread was started - I have two stories I would like to share. First is a story belonging to some friends of mine...

They had lost their 10 month old Great Dane very suddenly - he had begun to bloat and although his stomach did not fully turn, he went septic and went downhill quickly in just one weekend. After three days at a specialist/emergency clinic, they had to let him go. I was there with him for his final moments...as I followed them home, we all saw a BRIGHT shooting star - not a normal site on the horizons of the busy city of Phoenix. I believe it was a wonderful sign from Moose - and they did too...in fact, they felt it symbolized his short life...a beautiful, bright, shining star only visable for a brief moment in time.

The other story is mine - I lost my beloved heart dog Maverick in October 2002...just 4 short months after losing my wonderful boyfriend in a car accident. I didn't see how life could get much worse, and my only comfort was in hoping that Maverick and Josh were together again and watching over me happily somewhere. Well, it was almost a year after their deaths that I was cleaning my bathroom - all of the animals were accounted for...either outside playing or sound asleep in the other room. Something hit me on the shoulder...now being alone in the house, it should have startled me, but it didn't. I looked down to see what had fallen and it was a tiny dog biscuit...I still have never seen biscuits exactly like this one. There was no place it could have fallen from...there was nothing above me. I was ecstatic....I called Josh's mom immediately to tell her that I finally got my answer - Josh and Mav were together and they were letting me know that they were okay. I was afraid it might be my imagination, so I tucked the biscuit away in the box that holds Mav's ashes and collars...terrified that it would be gone when I returned from work that day. It wasn't - I still have it to this day...and it still brings me comfort - I am sure that I have had other signs from both of them...but each of the other signs could have also been explained by coincidence or other outside reasons...the dog biscuit was my absolute proof...and I'm eternally grateful for that sign!

[Tracyd]

This thread brought tears to my eyes. When my 13 year old Vladimir died about 2 years ago, the entire family witnessed things. Poor old boy died on the kitchen floor with his head in my lap, being pet till his last breath.
The first thing I noticed was a bouganvilla that I had planted in the front yard about 8 years before his death. The darn thing had never bloomed for all those years, and a day after his death the entire bush was loaded with purple flowers. I took it as a sign, but we joke today that it was probably because he wasn't peeing on it anymore.
Vladimir was always my dog, we lived alone together for many years before I got married and had a child. Vlad developed a special relationship with my little boy. They were always so gentle with eachother. My son came running and said he saw his shadow in the hall. This happened a few times.
One evening I saw "the shadow" on the floor outside my sons bedroom door. Sounds funny, but I just wanted to let him be, so I went to the kitchen. When I came out the shadow was gone.
When Vlad died I bought a book for my son called "Dog Heaven". It talks about how once and a while an angel will take your beloved pet for a walk, just to make sure you are okay. Whenever we saw "the shadow" that was how we explained it to our son.
I haven't seen that shadow in a while, but that bouganvilla bush has bloomed every year. I still cry when it does. He will always be with me.

[Dugganmom]

wow i am glad that i am not the only one!!! When my parents put there rott tucker down i could not be there to say goodbye... i was really upset but at the very moment he was put down my rott duggan looked up at the ceiling and started barking and my friends 2 year old pointed up toward the ceiling...i like to think he was coming to say "goodbye" to me because i could not be there....

[Marcino]

I'm a believer in messages from beyond... never experienced it with a pet (none of them have passed yet) I have had several experiences with the passing of loved ones. It's their way of letting us know things will be okay and they are watching over us still.

This is a great thread... beautiful stories.

[chivas]

4 days after Chivas died from osteosarcoma, I had a dream where she came to me holding her basketball and pushing it at me as she always did when she wanted me to play with her. It had been a long illness and she hadnt been able to do that in months, I KNOW it was her way of telling me that she was OK and happy now. 3 months later as I was driving home from work, thinking of her and very depressed, I looked up in the sky and saw a cloud shaped EXACTLY like her face!!! It disappeared a minute later but then I felt much better, she was telling me she is always with me. Several times I have heard her sigh as she always did before laying down, she is letting me know she is watching me. I wholeheartly believe in this. But strangly enough, I have never had a sign from Roxie or Zeke. But I must say that Roxie was more of my hubby's dog and Zeke was my daughter's dog while Chivas was mine.

[EmmysMom]

We had to send Baron to the Bridge on June 13, 1999. That night after I had gone to bed, I heard him bump the bedroom door open (like he always did) and come to the side of the bed where he slept every night, lay down and let out a big sigh, just like he did every night. It was so real I even put my hand down over the side of the bed to pet him good night, like I always did. He wasn't there of course but he was, if you know what I mean. Also, in the last 7 years I have seen him in the house twice and my husband has seen him once. We have a 10lb black cat and a 98lb rottie and each time they were both accounted for, so it was not either one of them that we saw. Each time I just say that Baron is just checking in to make sure everything is fine! I still cry over that boy, he was my heart dog!!
EmmysMom

[Denise L.]

My cat, Babe, had cysts in his ears that the vet would not remove because of his age (17-18 years old) and they caused ear infections from time to time. When Babe's ears were funky he would shake his head and between the cysts and the medicine he sounded like a pair of maracas

Anyway, I found a vet who would do the surgery on the cysts (Cyrus's vet today) using a local but by then it was too late...my Babe had colon cancer and I sent him to the Bridge. I was an absolute mess as all of you were.

Sometimes at night while reading I will hear that unmistakeable head shake and smile.

[JuneyB]

My GSD, one of 2 dogs in my life I have bonded with completely, was stolen on a Sunday...he was 5. Needless to say...I was frantic....searched everywhere...did the posters....notified everybody and every place I could think of. That Tuesday night...just as I was in that "about to fall asleep" state....he came to me...just brushed by me....and I knew he was gone from this world and had come to say bye. I also knew he was ok.....tho to this day I cannot think about what happened to him. But I know his spirit is somewhere...and we will link up again one day.