When people say that someone dies they show signs to you that there ok do you think this is true?

I only ask as everyone has different beliefs.

But recently I have been so upset and crushed from losing Meg, but the last month - month and half I have seen 1 magpie.

This may not seem strange but I mean it is all the time. Could this be a sign from my dog as 1 magpie means sorrow, that she is upset to see my so gutted?

I guess this sounds mad but wherever I turn there is just this one magpie in front of me....

I'd like to hear what people with strong beliefs think.


Thanks for taking the time to read....

I do believe that our babies show us signs they are still with us. My baby boy Charlie went to the bridge suddenly on 08/10/06 and since then he has shown me numerous signs he is watching over me. Everyone has their own beliefs and this I do believe in!!! I hope Meg continues to show you signs, as this helps us deal with our loss.

Take care,

Charlie's mom
Michelle

Yes, I do believe in signs from our loved ones, although I've been REALLY upset that I haven't seemed to have gotten many, or any really obvious ones from my girl, as I'd fully expected. You might want to read "Animals and the Afterlife" by Kim Sheridan.

According to one of my books on signs and symbols, magpies can also mean good news...so perhaps your sign is telling you that Meg has good news, in that she is now healthy and happy in her new 'form', and can still communicate to you?

I believe strongly that our departed furry friends do show us signs. They want us to be happy and know that they are alright, so at times, they may let us know that. In my case, Daisy let us know she was ok, but appearing to my husband and me in identical dreams at identical times. She appeared at 5 in the morning in identical dreams. I have no doubt but that she had made the long journey back because she knew that we were so unhappy without her.

I believe that your magpie sightings are also signs. It is clear to me that Meg wants you to know that she knows that you are unhappy and that she wants that to end.

Some people don't receive signs and are upset by this. I don't know why some pets return and others don't. I feel certain that it has nothing to do with the amount of love the pet feels. Perhaps God just doesn't feel that a sign is needed. There are just some things we can't understand.

Anyway, your magpie sightings reminds me that the last gift we can give are beloved friends, is to be happy.

Daisy's Mommy

I truly believe in signs, and I have been so fortunate to have received them from our Scooter. He used to drink water from the bathroom fawcets. One morning, the nightlight went out, I checked the bulb, and it was secure,. When I turned the water on, the light came back on. Another one was Scooter's paw prints on the bathroom mirror. He used to wait for me while I was in the shower until I came out. The most significant ones were the shape of an angel in the sky, and I posted the picture on this forum for everyone to see. The last one, was a video tape of him, that we did not know that we had. We were going to sell the camera, and decided we'd better check to see what was on the film, and there he was. Such a comfort to see and hear him again. Somthing we never thought we would do. So, I truly believe that the magpie that you are seeing is a sign from your baby that everything is fine. The signs are there, some are very subtle.

Scooter's Mom

The bond you shared with your little angel should still be there, no matter how many days/months/years he or she has been gone. The physical part I know you are still missing; all of us are. Remember it (the body) was only a shell housing a magnificent soul that is now free of pain and suffering, the indignities of old age and any disfigurements that happened in life. Your baby is immortal, having gone on to eternal life, and is with all of your predecessors, human and pet. Think how great the reunion will be someday!!
Keep looking for signs; no matter how small or insignificant they may seem, they are still communication! My Precious is still communicating almost daily. He got my attention yesterday afternoon while I was on the computer. A ***mouse (small bird) was chirping at the window beside me, so I stopped and lifted the blinds...and he was climbing the screen!! He looked right at me and hopped off the ledge. I consider that a very strong sign from my baby. We had a very strong bond and I can still feel his presence, even in the car!
Lisa

Like everyone else who's posted, I do believe in signs sent by our pets, but I also think that the lack of signs doesn't mean your baby isn't still with you. As Scooter's Mom said, sometimes the signs are so subtle that they don't register with us. Your magpie may be Meg's way of connecting with you, and I think that it may be that it won't always be there. Right now I would take some comfort in seeing it, and know that she's always going to be with you, in your heart and soul, forever. It may be a little eerie and scary right now, but from what I've read and witnessed, flying insects and birds may be a way for us to know that our departed loved ones are free and soaring and loosened from this earthly world and exist in the next one.

I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope you can find some comfort in this sign. Please come back and let us know how you're doing. Take care - Barbara

I don't think thats crazy.. i totally beleive in signs and that loved ones try to reach us when they pass on.
I had a sign from Nipper only a week after he was gone.. at least iam telling myself it was a sign..
I was dog sitting for some friends who were out of town. Their dalmation of 12 yrs was born deaf and will very rarely be aware that you've come into the house, athough iam sure her other senses are excellent. That is why iam pretty sure that my sign was real. I turned off the light to go to sleep and as always she sleeps on the bed beside me. It took me some time to go to sleep because i lay there thinking about my baby.. our baby boy Nipper. Then Ariel started barking totally out of the blue.. in the dark on the bed. Not a constant bark but more of a gruff that she was trying to gaurd me or tell me something. I didn't even have to think about what she was barking for. She'd never done that before so i just knew that she could sense or maybe even see my Nipper.
The only people i told about this were my parents because i wasn't sure how crazy it would sound but i really do beleive he's there with us, especially those times we are feeling at our saddest. I hope he can hear me saying goodnight to him ever night and that i love him soooo much!! I know he knew that but it would be so comforting if he knows that we still think about him every single day.. You'll NEVER be forgotten Nipper.

Neither will any of our babies.

I believe that our loved ones, human or fur, that pass on try to send us signs to let us know that they are ok and it is ok to move on. So far on each month anniversary of helping Simba to the bridge I think I got a sign from him. The first time was when I fell asleep on my couch and heard a purring sound coming from above my head where he used to sleep by me. The next time I heard a "tha-thump" sound in the kitchen that sounded just like it used to when Simba would jump off the counters and onto the floor. Even my "Simba II" heard it as well, he was looking in the kitchen like a cat does when it spots something.

Then the other day I was outside doing some things around the yard and looked in the sky and seen a bright clear rainbow going over my house. Wish I had my camera with me. Of course it was a rainy day but that was the first time I remember seeing a rainbow and a very long time and it was the most clear and brightest I had ever seen. It looked like someone painted it in the sky with a paint brush.

My cat boy died at 5pm. My home is only 5 min from the vet, so I was back with his body quickly. Soon I heard very strange knocking on the window. I heard that type of sound only once before when my father passed away. I my country, we have a tradition to open all windows at the house after someone had died. I believe, it was his spirit, soul, or energy that just left his body, and wanted to reuniate with the Creator. I have not had any other sign from him after this.

I totally agree...there are signs...very subtle that only the pet owner would know. It has brought me comfort that she is alright. Someone also says that if they are in your dreams they are also close by. Everybody seems to strongly beleive in the Rainbow bridge. LEt's hope everyone is right!

If anyone has any doubts, they owe it to themselves to read Kim Sheridan's "Animals and the Afterlife" &/or Scott S. Smith's "The Soul of Your Pet ~ Evidence for the Survival of Animals After Death".

I know this thread is about animals but I thought I would share this dream I had about my mother.

I get alot of signs from my mother in my dreams. She passed away when I was just 9 years old and it was devastating. We lived in the bad suburbs of Detroit and it was just myself and her the first 9 years of my life and she went so quickly from a bad liver. One day I was living with my mother and the next day my Aunt & Uncle.

I am now 35 and I see her in my dreams every once in a while. A couple of months ago it was pretty blunt, if you want to say that. I was sitting at this table in what I think was a resteraunt. I couldn't see the walls on either side of me, just tables and tables as far as I could see. The whole place was empty with just me. I turned around to look behind me to see nothing but more tables as far as I could see. When I turned back around there was this young lady sitting accross the table for me.

I sat there and looked at her not realizing who she was right away. After a moment she looked at me and says "You don't even know who I am do you?" It hit me like a brick wall who she was and I was so surprised I woke up. I still wonder what we would have talked about if I didn't wake up. It was like she was trying to set up some kind of meeting between us to talk about something.

I hope that happens again and I don't wake up right away.

I haven't had any dreams about Simba yet. Not that I remember. But I have seen/heard small signs from him though.

I have read that it is very hard for our loved ones to give us a sign from the other side, and no matter how small you think it is, it was put forth with great effort by that loved one. Make sure to acknowledge each sign, and not to dismiss them as coincedence. Any little sign is a miracle.

You are all so right, they are always there with us on a different plane.
I lost my sweet kittie, Simple in Feb., many times when I am not feeling well, or sad because I've had a hard day I can feel her jump on the bed in the evening like she always did in life. I talk to her awhile and I feel better. Just last week I was worried about my 18 year old kittie that I adopted this past May, because he has the beginning of Renal Failure and was acting very sick, the night before his Vet appointment, I felt my little Girl jump into bed again and I knew it would be alright. It was, his labs were good, he had a sinus infection. They know when we hurt, and are still there to help make it better, you just have to open yourself to the fact that unconditional love cannot die.
Cindi

Although I've said that I believe in signs and that anything that ever lived can't and doesn't ever die, I still remain completely torn up about Nissa still not having sent me a more tangible sign that she's still around me. What some of you have posted here about the tactile signs you've already received, are the kinds that I was POSITIVE my own baby would have sent me.....LONG ago! I'm afraid that my very beliefs are what are stopping her from having to 'show' herself, since she knows that I know her life continues, and so I don't strictly need proof anymore. But this isn't feeling fair! While I do rather think she sent me rainbows last week ( one in the sky and one by way of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" being played in the grocery store, where I seldom am at lately ), those are the kinds that are nice enough, but not as indisputable as belonging to our beloveds. If I could only FEEL some part of her body next to mine, in some fashion....I could quit fretting about her well-being. I suspect she wants me to trust in things and myself and is also 'pushing' me to go further beyond where I've already been....but it still doesn't seem fair, or right, that she'd wish to see me suffer a 'storm before the calm'. And oh suuuure....while writing this, in walks a tiny, grey-striped cat into our backyard...about as tiny as Nissa was......is THIS a sign now??? Why can't she just TOUCH me and be done with my pleading to her?!?

I was reading everyone's posts and they all are so touching. I believe every single one, and I can relate. Simba's daddy i loved the dream about your mother.
That was wonderful.

Furkidlet's mom, I pray she will be able to send or come to you somehow and perhpaps if you stop straining to hear or see or feel, she can come through easily.
Sometimes our human thought-taking with such intensity puts up more resistance than anything else. Just relax and LET her send you something or come to you.
Be ready to accept it however and whenever.
These signs and visitations are so precious to us no matter how they come.

I felt baby boy (Buddy) on the bed last night. Briefly, but it was the feeling of him "fixing his nest" as he was wont to do before settling down. I smiled and enjoyed it knowing he wanted me to feel him with me. He always made a show of protecting his mama at night and/or especially if there was any threatening sound or anything.
The Bud Man is still protecting his mama.

I agree with you, LifeLight, Simba's Daddy's dream about his mom, after all this time, is very special and is one that I would say falls in the category of miraculous, and I don't say that lightly.

I don't know if we can ever expect to receive signs after our loved ones leave this world. When my Heidi passed in 2001, I never expected to receive any sign, ever; my mind was so preoccupied and shocked that it never occurred to me that she'd ever come back in any way that I'd recognize. Quite simply, I didn't believe; I was so hurt that she'd been taken that I couldn't believe. Well, time passes and we become more mature and learn from each loss and trauma in our lives, and since Heidi left there have been plenty of those in my life personally. I've tried to learn from these things and try to see the positive in the negative - it's not easy by any means. And as my perspective has changed, I think I've become more receptive to feeling the spirits of my departed pets, and I know Heidi has been here - not just from the reaction of the other cats, but I just know. It's not explainable, but it is a definite knowing.

I guess my point is that the lack of a definite sign or signal is not proof that a pet's soul isn't there with you. They are there - they may just be biding their time, or maybe the experience of the world where they are now is so overwhelming, and time doesn't count for them anymore, so for them, there is all the time in the world, literally, for them to come to you in some way. I don't know, we never know till we cross to that world ourselves, but one thing I do know - that love is never lost or forgotten, and as someone in another post somewhere said - that love is an everlasting ribbon through our lives forever.

5catsmom.....I like what you said about TIME. funny I was thinking along the same line this very day. It makes sense.
Does it seem to all of you that night time is the hardest to deal with this grief?
I'm glad i can get on this forum and at least write something and know someone will read it, and probably understand and relate.
I hope that all of you who are awake tonight and trying to deal with grief and loss will find new courage, strength and hope. I hope your hearts will heal with the knowledge that your pets love along with their spirit is alive forevermore and i hope you can lie down and sleep in peace knowing they would never have left us on purpose and that they want us to know they love us. I believe they want our hearts to heal. It's just that we are left to bear the loss, and they simply cannot come and talk it over with us.
To all who are hurting tonight...........peace be with you and strengthen you and JOY find its way into your heart and life.
Cate

Cate,
For me personally, nighttime is the hardest time to deal with this and think about it - I'm an insomniac by nature, and most of my cats were nocturnal anyway. But when I think of time in the world that they are in now, I believe that time as in watching the clock, only an hour or two till thus and such - I'm not sure that's as relevant as time is here in the earthly world. There was a thread on this topic quite a while ago, and the way one person put it was something like this - it's not as though they're waiting for us as in us going to the store and we'll be back in x number of hours, it's just an infinite time that comes when it comes. I hope I'm paraphrasing that corretly - probably not exactly. I don't think that they're sitting and watching the door and waiting, they're frolicking and having fun and exploring and chewing their catnip and playing with their toys, and when we show up one day, well, that's icing on the cake, as it were. At least, that's the way I prefer to believe that their existence is now.

But you're right, in a way, they aren't gone from this life of ours forever now, either, because their spirits are here, and stay with us forever. When I think of that walk through the Gate to the Bridge one day, I see dozens of little tails marching along ahead of me, occasionally scuffling, but all happy to escort me to where they are. In a way, it takes away the fear of death, too, because while I'm not actively looking to leave (although in the early days that can cross your mind sometimes) I know my departed loved ones, human and animal, are waiting. And maybe that's their greatest gift of all, who knows?

Take care - Barbara

Hi,all.I have enjoyed reading all of your postings on this subject but I have to say up until today I was a bit jealous because I had not recieved any signs from my boy Sox that he was safe on the other side.Then last night I think it might have happened.Let me explain...we have a surviving kitty named Miss Mini who lives outside whom we kind of adopted about 4 months before Sox passed away.Now this kitty and Sox were never allowed to be around each other because Sox was an indoor kitty and she liked to roam around outside.Sometimes they would meet up between the back screen door if it got left open and Sox would just stare at her and she would be the one to hiss wildly at him.We always got a laugh out of it because she is a tiny little thing and Sox was a very big boy.So,anyway...back to the story...Last night my husband brought Miss Mini into the house just for a moment to see what she would do if brought inside and he was holding her just like he always held Sox and all of a sudden she let out the biggest hiss I have ever heard! She has never done this other than when she had come face to face with Sox (to our knowledge anyway) and we both think that maybe she was feeling his spirit or maybe she was even seeing him (even tho we couldn't see him)This event has made me so happy...I am not positive that he made it safely to the other side.Has anyone else ever had anything like this happen to them? I have also been finding lots of pennies in places that I never have before...don't they always say that if you find a penny somehwere that it's a sign from heaven..you know,pennies from heaven?? I found a penny on my kitchen floor and I have no idea how it got there,I also found one right outside on our back porch and another one in my garden only 2 feet away from where our Sox is buried!So,I am starting to see signs that Sox has presented to me.To those of you still waiting for your sign,stop focusing on it so much and just try to keep yourself open to whatever might happen around you.I think all of our beloved pets are trying to send signs in their own way,maybe it's not so easy for them to do? Anyway,I found a whole lot of comfort in the signs I believe I have recieved and I pray that everyone here will have a sign sooner than later.Let us know when it happens.Hope you all enjoyed my story...

I'm not really sure how this fits into this thread, but am wondering since the events of the last few days have unfolded if 'someone' was trying to tell us something.

My daughter just lost a much loved guinea pig, through sudden cir%%stances.

A couple of days before this all unfolded, my daughter went out to uncover her animals (she covers their cages at night - two piggies/one rabbit and a budgie).

The aviary had been moved to a completey different position - moved about a metre and turned around. Initially we thought my husband had done this early in the morning before going to work for some reason - but he hadn't.

There was nothing to explain it and I wondered if someone had been in the back yard and tampered with things for some reason. Although there was no other evidence.

But now since loosing our poor girl I am convinced that somebody was trying to tell us there was a problem and something was wrong.

I just wish now that I had realised this sign for what it perhaps was and checked the animals more thoroughly.

5 catsmom, i agree about the time thing. I think you described it probably as well as it can be described from this side/ : ) I like to think of my puppy boy as running and playing and seeing and hearing perfectly. Iknow he will be glad to see me as I will to see him.
Ryancat, pennies from heaven? That made me smile. I will take any little thing, won't you? and keep em coming. ; ) Art Garfunkel said once.........everything counts. And I believe it does.
Last night was a bad one again, but I got up and read for awhile and walked aruond, watched tv, etc...........I wish a few of us would get on the chat board when we are up and can't sleep. I will go there tonight if I am awake and cant sleep. Will anyone else be there? If not, I hope you are sleeping better than I am. God Bless. Cate

sad_one, I agree that the moving of the aviary is a very odd thing. I sense a deep guilt in your post, and I entirely understand it, cause I feel the same about our Ichi. If only. . . If only . . . But in the end, I do believe it's made me (since Alex left for college) a much more consistent and observant pet owner. For every terrible tragedy in our lives, I have to believe that God gives us a lesson. Well, my bunnies don't like it much, but I go over them every day and have caught at least one problem before it really hurt poor old Hazel's teeth (he's named after the rabbit in "Watership Down".) So, please, let this sign educate you and your daughter, not overwhelm you with guilt and grief. It's hard, I know, but it's the only way I know how to turn a negative into something positive. How else would this human race go on?

LifeLight, I know what you mean about the night times. I often visit here long after my bedtime (which really doesn't exist tonight since the kids have the day off school tomorrow - go figure - right after Halloween? Don't tell me that doesn't have some influence on that boneheaded decision, especially because they get all voting days off, and some Jewish holidays as well - I don't mind that at all especially since we Christians have Christmas and Easter, but come on, Halloween?) Well, I digress. I've always worked nights, and of course my cats are mostly nocturnal, and my hubby has his own room, otherwise his snoring would break all the windows. But anyway, time is getting on, and I settle down by playing Spider Solitaire and Mahjongg. The Mahjongg music alone can put me to sleep by itself. So long, folks, you're all in my thoughts. Take care - Barbara

I think I had a sign, my beautiful white cat snow
died early Sunday morning that left me devastated.
I find myself doubting sometimes if there is an
afterlife or a higher power, God force, especially
when such a loving caring creature who was only
3 years old and loved me so much is taken away
from me. On halloween I was walking to my car
from from a rock event, I was wondering if I would
ever see my beloved creature again in the afterlife
if there is such a thing, when I approached my car
I looked up and saw this white streak running down the stairs
of this building in the parking lot, I saw it jump on the
fence I walked up to it and it looked exactly like my
beautiful snow, I tried to see if it would let me get
closer to it but it jumped away to the other side
of this house. I know it wasn't my cat but maybe it
was God's way of telling me that she is ok and she
will always be with me somehow someway.

Bluemary,I just had to write to you and tell you that,yes,I do think your seeing that white kitty was a sign from God that your kitty was okay.The signs don't have to be big ones,just look for the little ones around you.It might take some time for you to discover them but they will happen.Your baby is safe and healthy,on the other side just waiting there until it is your time to join her.She isn't suffering anymore and has no more pain.I think that it is sad that you only got to have her for 3 short years but as all of us on this site know our pets are just a gift to us.We never know how long we will have them so we have to enjoy every single minute we have.I am so sorry for your loss.Whe you feel up to it maybe you could write a post of your own and tell us more about your beloved kitty.We understnad your grief and we know the pain that you are in right now.We are all going thur the exact same thing.I'll put you in my prayers tonight.Let us know how your doing.

To Bluemary....i believe also that it was your first sign. It doesnt have to make any sense to anyone else. You are the one it was sent to. So dont be discouraged if you tell someone and they poo poo you. Hold it in your heart.
As I said before....everything counts. it really does.

Ryan cat....that was so well-said, all i want to add is DITTO.

All of you.....I hope you continue to receive signs and things from your loved ones. I think we receive something a lot of times and tend to dismiss it because of what someone else might think. I can't pretend to be able to understand or explain it, and I don't think anyone can. But LIFE itself obviously goes on, so there must be something more, and we will learn about it as we go. Mostly from listening and watching and accepting, not from taking courses or classes or some organization.
Just from the universe itself and the power that fills it. God is everywhere. How can He not be? We should let Him heal our hearts and teach us all He wants us to know Himself.
I had a dream last night, but can't remember the dream. But I have had the feeling all day of holding my Buddy Boy, that satisfied loving feeling I always got from just holding him and petting his ears and giving him a few kisses on his sweet little face. I'll take that. It's helping me tremendously today.
God bless all of you. Cate

Thank you for your kind words Ryancat, it really helps me to
know people understand my grief. Its been a week now and
I'm doing my best to keep it together.Thank you again I know
my baby is looking out for me somehow.