The Ghosts Of Animals

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Ghostly Pets

I kept fish about 10 to 15 years ago and had 2 very strange incidents:

1 - I gave a fish to someone else, it was one I'd had for about a year and I gave it away because my aquarium was not suitable for it. About 2 days later I saw 'him' in one of my other aquaria where he'd never been. (I know they all look the same, but when you know them well you notice small things which are identifiable.) Anyway, the day after I told my mother because it was a bit weird, when she told me that the fish had died at around that time.

2- A goldfish I had for 14 years died, and I replaced him with 3 others. They became bashed up and diseased and died about 1 year later. When I was emptying the tank for the last time and the aquarium was about 1 third full, I was walking back into the room when I saw the original fish swimming in the water for what felt like 2 to 3 seconds. My initial reaction was that I had halucinated, but now I'm not sure.
 
I kept dogs for years (but alas no longer) & during that time took some residential courses, which meant that the dogs needed to stay with my wife or my mother.

While I was away from home I often saw & heard the dogs around me, although they were over a hundred miles away & were still alive & enjoying themselves.

At the time & still at the present time, I assumed that I was interpreting local stimuli, (the creak of a door, the flutter of a sheet of paper at the edge of my vision), as the presence of companion creatures, could this be the case with the fish?
 
Re: Ghostly Pets

Red Dalek said:
They became bashed up and diseased and died about 1 year later.
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I find my curiosity more aroused by the expression 'they became bashed up...' than by their apparent reappearance in the tank after their deaths.

How, please, do goldfish become 'bashed up' in a tank? Do you mean they grew old and tatty? :(

PS I've experienced the phenomenon - the impression - of having a cat curl up on my lower legs whilst lying in bed. Fully awake, I have turned to shoo off the family cat (who wasn't allowed upstairs), only to find the feeling of weight and of the cat's 'padding' an illusion.
 
David/Hermes:

I don't think that they were any sort of optical style illusions, the first fish was 3 dimensional, and the second fish was a 10 inch long orange goldfish with a white spot, I didn't just glance and see him I saw him long enough to recognise him.

The bit about them getting bashed up meant they they had a fight with each other (not the deceased 10 inch goldfish). There were broken fins and blood when I got up 1 morning.

One thing I didn't mention in my previous post was that when emptying the goldfish tank the water level would have been at the point where I would have taken him out at the time when I saw him. This may or may not be relevant to the fact that I saw him.
 
When I was a kid we had a cat who used to scratch at the kitchen door when he wanted to be let in. He would sit up on his back legs and scratch with both paws, a quite distinctive sound.

After he died, we heard the sound of him scratching on the kitchen door.

Carole
 
My anunty used to have a dog called Sally, she was a black lab/whippet cross and when she was young she was very excitable. She was a good dog but so jumpy she could be a pain in the bum. We all thought that it was a real pity that my Granny's old dog Winny had died just a few years before my Anunty got Sally because Winny had been an increadibly smart dog who often had a calming influence on younger dogs.

The first time my Aunty took Sally out to visit my Granny they put Sally out to run about in the garden. My Aunty was looking out the window and she saw the strangest thing. Sally seemed to be playing with annother dog but there was no other dog to be seen. She actually looked as if she was sniffing and invisible dog's bum. She kept running about and then stoping suddenly as if she were listening to something or watching something but there was nothing for her to see/hear.

The strangest thing is that Sally was almost a different dog after that visit, she was calmer, smarter and better with children. She had developed a level of calm that I have seen in only one other dog - Winny.

Cujo
 
Tamed by a sniff of an invisible dog's bum!

Where else would we get a story like that?

Wonder if it would work on kiddies. I could see a good
sales potential if they were advertised in the Times
Education Supplement.

Instant Obedience! Invisible Dogs Bottoms.
Be the first in your school to have one.
Smell the difference. :rolleyes:
 
So far we've got dogs, cats and fish.

Lots of people must have kept rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, etc.
Why no stories about these?

And what about more uncommon pets such as spiders and stick insects?
 
ive seen a cat running up and down my stairs but it stopped when i got a dog (never found any traced of a cat or anything)
casio
 
i forgot to say i did have a cat before the dog she was a lilac point siamese and the cat i saw was a tortoise shell tabby
cas,
 
What about Guinea Pigs?

When I was 17 I had a trained guinea pig named Sylvester, you could let him run loose in teh flat and when he needed a poo he came to you so that you could oput him back into the cage!
Anyway, he was a well loved one. Then one day he didn't wan't to eat anymore, so I asked my parents to bring him to thevet while I was at work.
When I came home he had turned from a glossy furred shiny eyed animal into a drooling, lame and half dead creature.
Apart from wan'ting to kill the vet who had given him an injection and apparently "hit a nerve" I knew that "Wosty" would die that night.
So I made his cage as comfy as possible and kissed him.
Then I went to bed.
In the middle of the night I was woken by an unearthly loud "eeek". It was amazing because even though it was VERY loud, I could feel that it came from inside my own head. Basically I knew that at that moment he had died and being too tired to get up I wished him a good journey.
Indeed as morning came I went to his cage to fing him glossy but dead and in rigor mortis.

So I am completely convinced that he said "good bye" to me that night...and we are talking about a guinea pig here!!!!


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My parents have kept cats since I was born, and over the years we've obviously seen some go and new pets arrive. A few times over several years I've seen or heard the occasional strange thing, once I saw a cat we no longer had go under a chair, another time I saw the outline of another of our cats outlined in the downstairs hall before I turned the light on, and I've occasionally heard odd "meows" (although they could obviously come from a cat outside), but they're always the same meow, in the same part of the house, and even when the current cat is inside (I generally check if a cat is wanting in when I hear it, even if the cat we currently have is already in). It can be quite spooky at 3AM when I'm the only person awake in the house :)
 
Dodgy Vets

Dingo said:
the vet who had given him an injection and apparently "hit a nerve"
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Sorry to here of your bad experience at the vets Dingo, I had a similar one with a rabbit. Vet gave him an injection of antibiotics, took him home and he was dead 3 hours later, I think it was an overdose.
It seems that vets and small animals don't mix well, most animals of this size are looked after by small children who only know there's something wrong when the poor animal dies, so the vets don't get as much practice as they otherwise could.
Your account seems very similar to that which I had with my Siamese Fighting Fish - a last visit to say goodbye and thanks for looking after me so well.
 
Same here with small animals & vets, my wife kept angora rabbits for a number of years & got the same sort of thing. Her prize stud buck injected with antibotics & keels over on the table. Vets comment:- "Well what do you expect from a rabbit?", as he presents the bill!!!!

But you are right about children & small animals, parents buy them a pet with no idear how to look after it & often unwilling to buy extras like FOOD & kid has better things to spend its money on!!!

But are some so called adults any better?
 
James Whitehead said:
Tamed by a sniff of an invisible dog's bum!

Where else would we get a story like that?

Wonder if it would work on kiddies. I could see a good
sales potential if they were advertised in the Times
Education Supplement.

Instant Obedience! Invisible Dogs Bottoms.
Be the first in your school to have one.
Smell the difference. :rolleyes:
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James you are incorrigible......but I like your style.
 
We too have a ghost cat. Like most of our nice phenomena, it seems to appear more around the eldest girl. It often sits on laps and sometimes under duvets where cats are certainly not allowed. Even my sceptical scientist husband was fussed by it and it scared the daylights out of him.

My mother had a Jack Russell which used to run up the stairs in her flat and scratch at the door, years after it had actually died!

A good friend kept a big dog which wore a chunky chain. After he died, she kept but put away his chain and metal bowl, but still hears the chain rattling on the bowl as if he's eating.

My clairvoyant daughter often has people bring demised pets along. One lady had a ghostly canary sat on her shoulder, singing in her ear! She was delighted to learn this as she'd had such a bird as a child and had trained it to do this.

On a more shivery note, Daughter once did a reading for a lady who seemed surrounded by cats. She could see them all around, staring at this woman. Being quite inexperienced at the time, she blurted out, 'You're a cat lover are you?' The woman responded with a tirade of abuse about cats! Daughter closed her eyes and 'saw' this woman drowning cats by the dozen, big ones, small ones, kittens... She began to feel a little hot and ill and opened her eyes. The woman was getting up to go, still mumbling about cats, and Daughter didn't mind at all when she didn't pay! The cats were still there and followed her out......
 
we once had a dog that was 18 years old when he died. my mam took it too the vets has his back legs had gone. on the night time after he died we were sitting watching the telly when we heard one bark at the sitting room door, when he was alive he would do this for the door too be opened for him.
 
Animal ghosts.

Does anyone have any thoughts on animal ghosts, I had a great little cat, name of Tim, he was with us for the best part of sixteen years, a more friendly and affectionate cat would be hard to find, anyway last year he got very sick and I had the onerous task of taking him to the vet to be put to sleep, I came away in a deep gloom having held him until the very last, my depression lasted for several days, which you might think daft for a grown man, but he meant a lot to our family, anyway after a few days I kept getting glimpses of him flitting about the house as did other members of the family.
Since then we think he just came back to say dont be sad I'm ok.
Any one else have visit's from their departed pets?
 
I have not seen any of my pet's ghosts, but I did have a wierd experience after our family dog died. She died on New Year's Day, and of course, our whole family was very sad. I think I was about 10 or 11. That night, I heard a paticular song come on the radio, it was that song from that movie with the little mouse named Fivel, I can't remember the name of the movie. I think the song was called "Somewhere out there" or something.... but the song made me feel better. The next 3 years after her death, on the anniversery, I would hear that song played sometime during the day. I know it was kind of a popular song at the time, but it seemed to me like it was my dog's way of comforting me. I know it sounds weird....
 
Go to my thread on Ghostly Pets, there's lots of posts there that could be part of this thread.
 
My friend, moved into his house to find that he wasn't the only resident !
A cat stalks the bottom of the stairs,u can feel it but can't see it !
 
Re: Animal ghosts.

p.younger said:
I came away in a deep gloom having held him until the very last, my depression lasted for several days, which you might think daft for a grown man, but he meant a lot to our family, anyway after a few days I kept getting glimpses of him flitting about the house as did other members of the family.
Since then we think he just came back to say dont be sad I'm ok.
Any one else have visit's from their departed pets?
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Firstly, feeling depression on the death of a pet is not daft. The death of a pet can cause a similar effect to the loss of a family member, which is what the pet is. We recently lost one of my two half Siamese cats, Reggie, and it has affected it me greatly.

The glimpses of a recently departed pet are not unusual and can apparently sometimes be caused by the mind matching the usual places where the pet would previously be seen and automatically visualising the pet there.

I have experienced unusual behaviour from Reggie's brother over the last couple of weeks. Whenever I have started feeling especially sad, he seems to turn up. Also, Reggie used to give little friendly bites when he was especially affectionate. On the day after Reggie's death, again when I was feeling especially low,Ronnie (his brother) gave me a little bite. This is something that he has never done before and not repeated since.
 
I had a young Dobermann a couple of years ago, and he always drank from the toilet during the night.

He was hit by a car one Sunday, and died within hours, and three days later we distinctly heard drinking from the toilet the following Wednesday night.

It obviously took him three days to find us again. We never heard the drinking again.
 
I have not seen an animal ghost but have got a story about one.

At my old job I was told that the building that the buisness used to be in was haunted by the back half of a dog.

New employees who didn't know the story would say they just saw a dog run up the stairs. When asked what it looked like they would say - I don't know I only saw the back legs. The person who told me this said he never saw it himself but enough people did. Nobody ever saw the front half of the dog - weird .:confused:
 
Nikita, your story doesn't sound so wierd. When I was 14/15 I had a pet rat called Tarzan. When he died I cried for 3 days solid! When we burried him in the garden, the next door neighbours had their radio on. The song 'The Power Of Love,' by Jennifer Rush came on. Quite a few times since, when I've thought of him deeply, I have heard that song somehow. I always like to think It's him.
 
Has anyone had any experiences regarding animal ghosts? My only sighting of a "ghost" was about 10 years ago in my parents house. It was late on a Sunday evening and I was alone as the rest of the family where away on holiday. I was sitting on the end of the sofa watching TV when a sudden movement, just within my field of vision, caught my eye. To my utter disbelief a small animal quickly passed along side the sofa. The strangest thing was that I didnt actually see the whole of the animal, just the central part of the body. Its very hard to explain but I didnt see its head or tail but was sure it was a small, greyish mongrel type dog. Certainly not a cat or anything else of a similar size.
As you can imagine I was rather freaked out but as I was expecting company, I put it down to one of those Fortean things and didnt think too much about it. It wasnt until the next day that I recalled a friend (who was staying at my parents house) a few years earlier telling me that they had "seen a dog" in the hallway. At the time I put it down to her seeing things as we didnt have a dog in the family home. (We never have). Now I am not so sure.. On reflection I truly believe that I saw a "dog" but cannot tell whether it was a ghost. a time slip, a visual recording of some sort..who knows. What I do know is that previous owners of this home (a 50's bungalow)
were definitely dog owners..perhaps all dogs dont go to heaven!
 
I've seen one of my families old cat's in my mum's house, one of my brothers also had the recently deceased cat jump on his bed in the middle of the night and walk up and lie on his chest, he was freaked but couldn't move until Sam (name of the cat) disappeared. Even though Sam was a jet black cat he appeared grey. My mum has also seen her old dog in the same house
 
A friend of mine who lives in Cornwall used to live in a house where the whole family saw a ghost cat several times. It used to walk down the stairs and then vanish before it reached the bottom. I stayed at the house a few times, but never saw it.
 
My uncle, a true skeptic, was watching television one evening in his previous home when he saw the head and shoulders of an alsatian dog emerge from the middle of the living room floor. My uncle watched this half-a-dog for quite a while until it vanished.

In typical style, he thought nothing of it - assuming he was just tired and 'seeing things'. Some time later, however, he was talking to an elderly neighbour about the house when she mentioned that one of the previous owners had an alsation, which had been his sole companion. Intrigued, my uncle asked if the house had been altered in any way. She said that the level of the ground floors had been raised.
 
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