Deceased pets who come back to you in dreams >

[mr_hat]

Apart from the blessing of spending time with them again, and quite apart from the dream's inevitable (in my case, at least) expository chaos, what's the significance?

I like to think they're coming back to right my course.

[Wickerman]

1. I hope so - Gabe was just put down yesterday

It would nice to see him again...

[Minimus]

2. My condolences to you. I am struggling with having my Sonic

put down last week. I know it was time, but I miss him so. How are you coping?




Rest in Peace my little boy
1991-2004

[2sheds]

4. So sorry, both of you ...

I don't know what else to say. I hope your days can lighten soon.

[Fenris]

5. My condolences to you both.

:cry:

[Wickerman]

7. Oh, Sonic - what a great looking guy

Sorry to hear of your loss. It sucks, doesn't it? I miss him.

Here's to better days.
:hug:

[intheflow]

14. Sonic looks like a real character!

You must have a million great memories. I'm sorry for your loss.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. I had a cat named Sonic....

Yours looks like a Jack Russell.
I'm so sorry for your loss... :hug:

[latebloomer]

25. So sorry, Wickerman and Minimus!

We are struggling with a similar decision as our beloved 13-year-old Brownie is rapidly declining. The whole family is so sad.

[barb162]

28. I'm sorry, very sorry for your loss of Sonic

[shesemsmom]

3. May all you dreams of Gabe be pleasant and often, sorry for you loss.

it's like losing a child. You are in my prayers. thats a beautiful Dog

[intheflow]

10. I'm sorry.

Gabe looks like a wonderful dog.

[Cuban_Liberal]

11. I'm so sorry...

:hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Awwww

I'm so sorry to hear that. What a pretty pup! :hug:

[barb162]

27. I am so sorry; I know this is a terrible time for you

[Sanity Claws]

6. My condolences

I had to put my dog, Sullivan, down in December 1995. I loved him dearly. Sometime later I had a dream where I found this dirty mangy dog that needed help. I brought him in and cleaned him up. In my dream, I got this very intense feeling of joy just from taking care of him. After I finished washing the dog up, he looked just like my dear old Sullivan. It was though I had been reunited with him and I felt like crying.
I don't know whether that was a message from him or just my brain reminding me that you can experience genuine joy from taking care of another.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. That's a nice dream. I like that...

[Sanity Claws]

12. Thanks

I had the dream a long time ago - maybe 5 to 8 years ago. I still remember the intense feelings of the dream.
Is that your dog in the avatar?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Yes we have 3 skye terriers.

The avatar is Hanako our older girl, here as a puppy:

In the group picture she is hidden/smushed between the other two as is consistent with her shy, demure personality.



Elijah, the devil, is our oldest. He is a good soul.



When I am vegetating in front of the computer, he will often forcefully nudge my hand away from the keys and force me to spend time loving him. It's like he knows our time together is really short, and that humans are too dumb to appreciate this so he simply has to make me spend some loving time with him. The dogs got sick last few days, getting better now, but seeing him lethargic and in low spirits made me think a lot about what it will be like when we no longer have him. It's pretty hard to think about.

[Sanity Claws]

18. They look like fun

They look like fun, lively company. I'm glad to hear they have such a nice home.

[intheflow]

8. My beloved Ziggy came back to me once.

Ziggy was a laid back and loving cocker spaniel/black lab mix. He ate some antifreeze-laden hamburger that took three neighborhood dogs' lives, ultimately. Zig was the last to die after a long, painful, and expensive fight with kidney failure.

When he was in my dream, it was a very spiritual dream. He was in the attic of a house. In dreams, houses are said to represent the spiritual self, and the higher the floor, the more spiritual aspect of yourself. But it was Ziggy in his most pained phase, and it ripped my heart out all over again. This was such a powerful dream I remember it vividly more than 6 years later.

Ziggy, combined with other aspects of th dream, points to it being a prophetic dream, or what you say, my pet came "back to right my course." Zig was definitely pointing me in the right direction.

[iconoclastic cat]

16. Antifreeze-laden hamburger? What kind of psycho did that?

I would be in deep legal trouble if someone poisoned one of my pets. That person would be scaled and cleaned like a fish.

[China_cat]

19. Members of a certain

animal rights group that I shall not name have been known to do this to 'rescue' dogs from their slavery.

Most of the time they slip it into the water of crated dogs at shows, though.

[intheflow]

22. I lived in a hick town in Massachusetts.

The people across the street were these psycho born-agains that refused to even wave hello when turning into their driveway (right across my mine).

Well, me and two other neighbors on the street had very sweet dogs that did not run outside of our yards. They were all very well behaved, obedient dogs.

The psychos had this psycho flock of geese they kept for pet and allowed to run loose all over the neighborhood. And you know how mean geese can be - these geese would charge across their yard in the morning to attack me as I got into my car to go to work.

The psychos were always complaining to the dog warden that our dogs were harassing their geese when in truth, I saw these dogs cower from the fucking geese on many occasions. The dog warden always came but never saw anything amiss so refused to make us give up our dogs. So we're all pretty sure it was the born-again psychos who killed our dogs.

[iconoclastic cat]

31. Then perhaps it's time for a roasted Xmas goose.

But seriously, there should be some way to smack down these kinds of freaks. This country is beset by psychos.

[SmokingJacket]

20. Weird, but...

I had a puppy named Ziggy when I was a child.

We had to give him away because he ate everything in sight.

He was a springer spaniel/black lab mix.

Same dog?

[intheflow]

23. Doubtful. We got Zig as a pup in Massachusetts about 12 years ago.

But if your Zig died more than 13 years ago, maybe my Zig was your Zig reincarnated. :)

[SmokingJacket]

24. I don't know when my Ziggy died...

but 13 years seems about right!

:)

[SmokingJacket]

21. My dead cat always symbolizes guilt.

If I feel like I'm not doing my duty in some way, my big fat white cat returns in my dreams.

She says, Take better care!

Pay attention to the small and weak!

:cry:

[barb162]

26. I have had two dreams since my cat Boy died 10/11/03. Both were

very nurturing dreams (in one, for example, he was purring on my chest while I was rubbing his chin) and I like to think that if there is a heaven then he is surely in it, that he is content and waiting for me to see him again.

[IStriker]

29. Sometimes I dream about my red Dobie that my husband gave me as a wedding

present. I had him for 15 yrs. and we were inseparable. I am an animal lover, but I never was attached to a dog like I was to him. I dream that I am petting him and when I awaken and realize it is only a dream, I am nearly as sad as I was when I lost him almost 20 yrs. ago. I have never gotten over being without him even though I have had other dogs since. I don't know if the dreams mean anything except that there is still a bond
between us that remains unbroken and that I will always miss him. I feel for all of you who have lost a companion or are at the point where a decision must be made. It is a very difficult thing.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. For those who've lost a pet recently ...

check with your local SPCA or Humane Society. Many of them have pet loss support groups. When I had to put my first cat to sleep (she was 22 and I was 44) it was a great comfort to just be with people who were going through the same feelings. It really helps.