..Just wondering if anyone has any experiences with their pets who crossed over..?  Seeing them, sensing them.. etc..?

Rhonda

I definitely have.  My cat Haley visited me each day for about two months after he died.  I couldn't see him but could feel him jump on the bed, walk across it, and lay down next to me.

.. My cat Spanky cross-over 2 years ago and came right back to me 2 1/2 months later.  This cat and I had the strongest bond.. I always called him my little soul-mate.  I have other cats but Spanks was, and is the king of them all.  I had so many signs from him that he was still with me.  Because he was anemic he would try to eat his cat litter for minerals.  So the litter smell is somthing I related to him.  When I got home from the vets office and stepped out of the car, a huge wiff of the litter smell surrounded me.  That night, I had ear plugs in my ears so I could sleep, and I heard purring in my ear.  It rained the next day, and on the stone wall in my back patio was a dry spot in the shape of a cat. The rest of the wall was wet with rain.  I continued to smell the litter smell in places where there was no litter.  I had the visit dreams, the very clear and vivid ones. I had so many signs from him.. One morning upon waking I turned over and got a glimpse of him.  The most interesting thing was one night I was awoken by this thumping by my head. It felt like my cat was chasing his tail on the bed by my head. But no cat was there.  I turned over (don't know why this didn't freak me out) and fell back to sleep. A short while later I awoke and it was still going on. I didn't know then but that was the day Spanky was reborn.  2 months later I adopted "Angel Bella".  I went to the SPCA with the intention of adopting a kitten for my other cat so she would have a playmate.  I really wasn't looking for Spanky. I didn't really know if he would come back that soon or maybe at all.  As I was getting ready to go, I looked at spankys picture and said "Spanky if there's a kitten there that looks just like you, and has the white spot on his back, then I'll know it's you".  And sure enough, I walk in the the door of the SPCA.. and the only kitten fast asleep was an exact duplicate (almost) to my spanky.  My Spanky had this white spot on his back that I would always kiss and say.. that before he was born an angel kissed him and that's why he had it.. When I use to pray to him after he crossed.. I would say "Spanks, if you come back you have to look the same in the face and have the white spot on your back, so I know it's you".. and he did... I wouldn't have thought it was him this strongly if the personality were different.. But my Bella has the same personality as Spanks and all the same old habits.  So that to me is the only proof I need.  I know that love really does conquer all.  I grieved for him in the same way a mother grieves for her child.  It hurt sooo bad, I didn't think I'd make it through.  I read everything I could get my hands on about the afterlife. Before his death I was very interested in the subject but didn't make time for it.  Right before his death and ever since his death I can't stop.  My awareness of the afterlife is immense and my believe has turned to 'knowing'.  His passing and then returning has completely changed me.  Before his death,  I was walking in the clouds (so to speak) and now I'm walking on them.  I feel he came to me to teach me some great life lessons.  I have never had children so without him I would never have learned that kind of love.  And without losing him and having him return, I would never have become so aware about the other side.  I feel so blessed...

Thanks for reading...

Okay, I take the challenge....

I had a cat for 20 years.  She died of natural causes while I was on holiday vacation.  I am truthful when I tell you that I felt her small warm body appear in my arms a few days after returning home.  I was standing beside a table in my living room and I felt her in my arms quite vividly, so that I was cradling her, and had a very pleasant feeling come over me.  It really felt like she was there to say goodbye to me.

love, blink

.. Thanks for sharing.. I'd love to hear more stories...

I had two german shephards when I was younger..Mac and Dharma.. It's been 25 years since they've gone.. every now an then I think of them.. One night in a dream I saw Mac..he just came running toward me.. it felt like a realistic dream not the fuzzy kind..so I was sure it was a visit from him saying hello..I woke..and thought where was Dharma.. fell back to sleep..saw Mac again.. and out came Dharma and a bunch of her puppies that she had with Mac...Again, it was a realistic like dream.. I felt really good when I woke up.. Like, I was satisfied in knowing that they are still around and having fun.. and together still after all this time..lol...

.. Thanks for sharing that Laffingrain...

Here's something I think is a pretty significant sign of my Spanky's return...  Right after Spanky died I had lots of dreams of him.  A few felt like visits.. In one we would  be playing and I would pet him and tell him thanks for making this dream feel so real.. I thought, oh the dr. would be shocked to see how well you look.  Another, I was bending down petting him while he drank water from his favorite water fountain we had. Again, I was thanking him for making the dream feel so real.  At the end of both these dreams he started gagging and choking.  And then I would wake up.. I couldn't figure out why at the end of both of these wonderful dream/visits that he would start gagging/choking..  Well months later, after I got "the new Spanky" Angel Bella.. We were playing one day and all of a sudden she started gagging.. it wasn't the normal furball kind of gag..the ones that would eventually come up.. This went on for days, it happened intermittently and it would be just a gag..no noise.. And it didn't seem she was trying to get up a fur ball. I thought she had something caught in her throat.. So I took her to the vet and they took x-rays and she had a fur-ball the size of a golfball, in her stomach.. she was still just a little kitten at this time.  The dr. said that his cat once had the same thing and since it was so large they would probably have to surgically remove it.. he said it was too large to move into the intestines.  He gave me 5 minutes alone with her, and I sat and looked at her and I felt that I could wait through the weekend and see if it would come out on it's own.  He gave me the laxatone to give her.. I went home and gave her lots of it and laid my hands on her at one point and prayed and imagined the white light.. etc..  A day later, no more gagging.. I took her back in on the Monday and got more x-rays and it was gone..  It must have come out her back end because I never found it on the floor.  The doctor was shocked.. This  then triggered the memory of the dreams where spanky was choking, and I got this overwhelming feeling that it was all a sign that Bella is indeed Spanky...

..Yes.. dreams are great warning symbols.. I've been told and have come to realize that dreams are how I get my premonitions or visits.. I realize too that If I can find a way to get to sleep without a little help from a small dose of a sleeping pill, that I could get more messages/advice or premonitions from my dreams.. But my brain doesn't stop, so I usually take something to help me sleep. 

.. Wonderful.. I love hearing stories like that..  I really believe I'll be surrounded by animals when I cross.. What Heaven that will be..  I watch the tv show "It's A Miracle" almost every night.. And there are so many stories similar to that.  I don't need anymore proof.. I just love to hear it all the time. It's like candy for me;D