thats funny Joe as I just posted a pet story on another thread, did u post this query before or after mine?  might be group telepathy!

well heres another story. The animals do continue. not only that their demise can be picked up several weeks ahead of the actual transistion as this colt retrieval indicates.

I told this story before so my apologies to older members, this is for newbies.
I woke up after going to sleep and I was in my horse pasture, standing there in the moonlite in Washington, a small town of Kingston. at night we have bear, coyote, coon prowling. I was scared because I had been in bed sleeping just a minute before.
no I wan't there sleepwalking. it was my other body of awareness. what I must call astral for want of another term.

I was listening to the night sounds of crickets and how quiet it was a night. It was like I was a soldier standing at attention listening for commands. I heard a rustle through the tall grass and something was approaching me. god only knows what but I stood still curious. a little colt only as tall as me joyfully sprinted up and looked at me as if to say, oh wow, at last I found another living creature! I was all alone!
I started petting it, these little guys are so playful!
then I wondered where it came from, what to do for it, with it as it was now clearly my responsibility to care for it. I remembered I had built a stall which was empty at the time. I thought to myself, and now I think I did create this to be: it would be great if I could find a mare to mother the colt then all would be well and they could live here.

I looked up as I thought this and a mare appeared in the stall in front of us but the colt could not see her yet.  then to my dismay the mare was dying! she folded her legs under her to lay down in the mud for she was older now and had no reason to live, so she seemed to be saying.

I found a power inside me to shout NO! YOU MUST NOT DIE! I told the mare this colt had need of her mothering. she was listening to me and obeying me not to lie down. I stopped to think how I could communicate with animals so easily right now.
then I told the colt to gaze towards the mare, I took his attentive consciousness in the direction of the mare by just talking to it. he saw her and ran happily up to the mare and leaned against her flanks and she snorted a few times talking to it.
a happy horse conversation began within the snorting breath sounds.

a voice said the mare was surrogate most likely but I wondered if it could be the real mother who lived in the back of my farm (this I found out later) for the mare in the back, she was an older mare who had given birth to this cold less than a year ago.
the only way it could be her, was it was her astral form I had called up. astral is a real form, just a different vibrational form of matter.
consciousness can be inside the astral form.

this was an animal retrieval.

when I awakened in the morning the adventure was still fresh as if it just happened. a few weeks went by and one day my neighbor said they had had to shoot the colt when it broke a leg. the mother mare was in terrific pain of heartach, moaning every day for the babe. at first I was upset as I had often walked by the colt which was the delight of the neighborhood. I was also angry for the carelessness of the owner. however I soon put two and two together and realized I had taken care of the colt 2 weeks before in the retrieval and so I was prepared and didn't have to carry the pain.

the accident was all set up to bring the owners to a lesson involved in their relationship and the colt had done them a service by causing them to love something and then lose it though negligence.

none of my business I assure you, but the colt was my business as it landed in my field, the same field where its mother had carried it in her stomach for a year, so perhaps its soul remembered the field and it seemed like I was plucked from my bed and placed in the field for the retrieval.

now, years, later, I keep thinking I want to get a horse!

anyone have an animal story?

thank you Joe, u r a positive presence here for me. no one could have been more surprised than me to discover a colt was put down later after this retrieval, and as I thought why why why, something so precious to all of us, then I remembered how the owner was accident prone..she drove tractors into barns, brought some bees to my farm and they chased me in the house etc. she had enthusiasm problems I would call it which caused the death of the colt and self reflection for her and her mate.

but the main point was there are possibilities for reality, then there is probabilities for reality..in the case of a future retrieval, then it must be it's death was like already set in stone.  which I would say for people it may be different, I think people are more easily able to change something that looks like its going to happen (if they think about it)