It has been two weeks and four days since my darling bunny's passing. Like everyone else I have been having good (ish) days and bad days. Two nights ago, I was laying in bed thinking of her. Suddenly, for the first time, the realisation that I was really never going to see her again hit me like a ton of bricks. I buried my head into my pillow and began to sob uncontrollably. My whole body was shaking with grief and I started having trouble breathing. Now, this is were things get strange...

Although my eyes were closed and pressed against the pillow, I could sense this white "glow" close to my head. I could have sworn that I felt whiskers brush against my cheek, and the feel of soft warm fur nuzzling up against me. I was frozen. Then this kind of "warmth" spread throughout my entire body. My heart felt this intense rush of love. A feeling of such calm and peace consumed me. It took me a moment to realise... but my tears had stopped, and my lips had turned into a huge smile. Then, after a moment, it was over. I sat up in bed, not quite believing what I had just experienced. I'm not really a spiritual person, but I just know that Daisy sensed my pain and grief and paid me a visit to comfort me, knowing how much I needed to feel her near. It was the most wonderful, powerful experience I've ever had. I feel like I'm coping so much better now.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this after losing a beloved fur friend? I'm starting to wonder if maybe I'm going mad? But I like to think it was my Daisy being her usual loving, comforting self, just like she was in life.

--- Thank you Daisy. For being there when I needed you most. I miss you so much. But now I know you are not far, and you are with my always. I love you forever. Mommy *** ----

Hi, Cheryl, please let me reassure you that you are not going insane. What you have experienced is really quite natural. Many people, including myself, have experienced the presence of their beloved companion's sweet Living Spirit visiting them, and usually in times of deep grief. I believe this was your precious Daisy's moment to let you know that she is still with you even though you cannot physically see her. I am so glad you felt comforted by Daisy's visit.

Cheryl, this grief journey is one of the most difficult experiences we can ever have in our lives. When we lose a beloved companion we also lose a part of ourselves, the better part of ourselves that we have surrendered only to them. The loss of a beloved companion is both physical and emotional. These are some of the reasons why our grief journey is so very painful, particularly in the very early stages.

Cheryl, I hope this helps you, and will be a source of comfort and encouragement to you. Please know you are in my thoughts and prayers, and please let us know how you're doing.

Peace and blessings,
moon_beam

Moon beam,

Thank you so much for your kind words. It was a relief to read them. Although I intially felt such comfort from the experience, I have lately began to question it, and as I said, start to wonder if I was going insane. But it's nice to know that I am not the only one who has experienced something like this. Now I can accept it for the wonderful thing that it was. The more I think about it, it makes perfect sense. A bond that strong cannot be broken by death. I only wish that other forum members who are struggling to cope will be blessed by an experience like the one I had.

Thank you again. Your reply made me smile. And smiles seem to be so rare thesedays :-)

Cheryl

Dear Cheryl

You certainly are not going mad. I have had very similar experiences on many occasions, first with my Tasha and recently with my Noushka, sometimes with them both together. I have also had this experience with my grandfather who passed many years ago. Always at times of great sadness or if I was ill or worried about something. First the white light and then I actually can see them (although my eyes are closed) and I feel the warmth that you described. Afterwards I sense a feeling of 'wellbeing' and a sense of peace. I can't explain these experiences very well but I do believe that our loved ones are showing us that there is more beyond this life and that they are there for us, watching over us, never far away. It has given me so much comfort and hope, and has helped me cope with their physical loss.
Keep your mind open and I'm sure you will have many more signs from your precious Daisy.
Thinking of you.
Jan and my Angels and Pixie xx

Thank you, Janika.

I'm so pleased to be reading that others are lucky enough to have had this experience. It really does comfort me, and reassures me that it was indeed "real". Daisy's passing really has made me question things, and I do feel that I have become more spiritual... which can only be a good thing! I've always been one of those people who believed "when you die, you're dead, there's nothing else" but now I truly do feel that death is not the end. My Daisy and you wonderful people on here have helped teach me that.

Thank you again, you are all in my thoughts.

Cheryl and Daisy's spirit :-)

Cheryl
I had something happen about 10 days after my cat died. I was just waking up in the morning-half awake/half asleep. I heard a meow sounding like it was coming from the kitchen. My cat had a distinctinve meow and it sure sounded like him and made me feel much better at the time and woke me completely up. I still wonder sometimes if it was real or if I was dreaming but I think I was awake.

Dear Cheryl,

It's been exactly a month today since I put my Kota to sleep. I had one dream about her the day after she passed. I have not had the experience you had, but I believe in it totally that both of your spirits and energy met up and combined for a brief moment. You are fortunate. Every nite I ask that Kota come to me in a dream. It is heartening to hear that this happenned to you.

Dennis

Cheryl,

My experience was different than yours but the other day, as I was sitting at my desk at work, I could smell my little Cooper. This strong smell just filled up my space and it smelled like my boy did after being groomed. At first I thought I was imagining it. I was smelling myself thinking it was me and I was crazy but it last a couple minutes and then was gone. I like to think Coop was letting me he's still with me.

Hi Cheryl
I have had several visits mine have been hearing them walking around and quite a few visits by smell .
Most of my visits have also been at times when I was very upset and crying or sitting at the computer
late at night crying writing a poem about them. This may sound crazy but my Dozer was cremated and
I always know when he comes to visit me I can smell a very strong smell of burnt ashes as if it was
directly under my nose. With my Angel Max he was always passing gas specially when we would go to bed
and many nights I will be in bed and I can smell as if he were laying on the floor passing gas and I know it
wasnt me and no one else around and i will say hi my baby I know you are here. One other experience I
have had when my angel Smokey passed 4 years ago I was searching the net and came across the
rainbow bridge then read the poem and started crying then decided to go out to where he and my other
lab were buried as I started out and looked up there was a double rainbow above both thier graves. I ran back in
to get my camera. I have posted the picture of the Rainbow I seen down below. When I saw it I had that feeling
you described as a sudden peace with in, something that is kind of unexplainable. I know it was my smokey letting
me know he was there at the Rainbow bridge with his girl lady. So yes they do come to visit and I know
I am not crazy I know what I have heard , seen, and smelled. Have also had other things happen that I
cant explain if you go to Janika post she explains about a picture I sent her of one of her angels sooty
and her new dog Pixie. It is proof that are angels are with us and watching over us. If you get a chance
please go read.

Hugs
xoxo

Our angels are never far away
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Thank you all for sharing your experiences. It makes me so happy to know that it has happened to others, and I now truly believe that our babies are still with us after they have physically gone. I am coping so much better with the grief now. I still miss her, and I think I always will. But I just feel... different. As if she is still with me. I hope she will visit me again now that I have opened my mind to it.

Maybe we should all try a ritual to try and encourage a visit. Maybe if we lay completely still and empty our mind and imagine our babies, and ask them to come to us, they will. Who knows? It's worth a try.

I have heard a couple of times about the "smell". I haven't experienced this yet, but I hope I do. As strange as it sounds, that's one of the things I miss the most. Unlike dogs, rabbits don't have body odour. But I used to just lay my head on her and breathe her in, and she smelt so warm, slightly musty... she just smelt like home.

Smokey/Lady/Max... the rainbow story you told was fascinating. And what a lovely picture. I truly believe it was your angel sending a message. I will try to find the post you speak of.

Thanks again. Wishing you all a visit from your angels.

Cheryl

Cheryl, I'm glad you had an experience that makes you feel better and opens your mind to life beyond what we know. I hope that Buck will visit us. I repeated over and over in his last minutes that I wanted him to come back to us and sleep with us and protect his yard. I told him to never leave us. Buck was so smart, it was scary at times. But that's why I decided to tell him that over and over. I thought that if any of my pets would understand and could come back, it would be him. But, nothing so far.
I don't know what I believe in terms of animals and their spirits but I can tell you that there were some strange things that happened after our cat Frasier died last August. One of the most strange was that we have a wicker clothes hamper in our bedroom and Frasier would paw on it as if he were sharpening his claws. After he died, we heard that hamper make the same sounds as it did when he was doing that. Both my husband and I heard it so I wasn't dreaming. I know that it wasn't our other cat Niles because he was with me. I had a hard time when Frasier died because I felt so sorry for him that he was the first of the three to go. Frasier depended on his brother, Niles, so much. And ever since Niles died in March, we haven't heard the noise again. It's as if Frasier is at peace now. Niles is with him.
There have been other things but I won't go into all of them. Some are deeply personal and hurt to speak about. But throughout each one, there is a distinct form of communication going on, I am convinced.
My hope for you is that you will be able to keep this calm feeling you now have. What does it hurt to believe that it was her? If it makes you feel better, then it must be from her somehow someway.
-Donna

More evidence that it WAS my Daisy paying me a visit:

I was reading a magazine called "Spirit and Destiny" and there was an advertisement for a pet psychic that you could contact for a text reading. So I texted the number explaining that I had just lost my rabbit etc, asking if she had a message for me. This is the reply I got back:

"So sorry to hear about this. But I feel that she is still very close to you. I feel that she has tried to make her presence felt. She is expressing a life full of adventure and is communicating that you were a great friend, who she trusted completely. She wants to thank you for taking great care of her. She wants you to know that she will always be close to you."

I am crying as I type. But happy tears :-)

Cheryl

It is not that unusual to have 'Visits'. My wife has been getting them from Murphy, and Miles still stops by once in a while.

We would never try to discuss it with anyone in our Meatspace Life..What's the use!

A weight on the bed in the usual place. Walking on you at night the way they always did. A flitting motion in the corner of the eye. Dream visits. A depression in the old spot on the couch that is not there a few minutes later.
WHAT it is, what mechanisms are involved, is anyone's guess. It could be from our own mind, from the shared soul. I do not really care where it comes from.
They are important friends, and love and friendhsip are forever, or should be.

They are welcome here, to say, "I'm Fine! I'll WAIT for you, as always."

yes
Eva

feeling with you
our angels are still here

I'm really glad that you shared that! What a blessing for you!
I have a story to share with you.

My cousin died a few months ago and although we had grown apart I still loved and cared about him very much and was heartbroken for my aunt. About one month after he died I had a dream that I was in his old house from when we were kids. Suddenly in the dream I look up and he walks into the room. As soon as I see him I am so shocked that I completely wake up in the dream and I know I'm dreaming but it is actually him there standing in front of me. He was luminous, and the most beautiful I had ever seen him. It was like you take someone and make them the most perfect and beautiful they could ever be and that is what he looked like. He was slim and had a grandness about him. He also looked surprised, relieved, and excited that I could see him. He said, "You can see me? You can see me?!" And then he was gone and it was over and I woke up with my heart pounding. I immediately woke my mom up to tell her about it. It was between 5 and 6 in the morning. Even though it didn't make much since I knew that it was really him. He had come to visit me. FOR REAL.

About one month after that I had another dream exactly like the first one. I never expected to and had almost forgotten about the first one and then he came again. He looked exactly the same luminous and beautiful. This time, however, he was very nonchalant. He said "Hey" and walked past me to another room. I followed him still in my shock of seeing him and trying to get my wits together to ask him questions like "where are you? are you OK etc. But I didn't have a chance to because he turned around, looked at me and disapeared. He was gone and I was awake. It was the same time between 5 and 6 in the morning. One thing that I thought was very strange about the dream is that he was wearing a black leather jacket. He had never worn a black leather jacket in life. Even though I knew that he was real and came to visit me I thought that part didn't make any sense and I thought maybe my mind had made it up. I told my aunt about the dream and then the last part I told her he had been wearing black leather jacket. She then told me that she and her husband had just bought a black leather jacket for each of them the day before. (and just so you know they were in California in July traveling and I was speaking to her on the phone and had no way of knowing.)

So what that experience told me is that love is eternal, our loved ones live on and are with us. I know this is true and was blessed by the experience like you with blessed with yours. It is still hard to lose your loved ones though! I have been destroyed by losing Bunny! He was my world! I just hope and pray that he can come to me. Keep sharing any more visits you have.
much love,
lammy

Hi Lammy,

Thank you soooo much for sharing your wonderful experience. How special that must have been for you! I'm pleased that this thread has been brought back up to the top - I'd completely forgotten that I'd started it, and it was lovely to think about that experience I had, and to read over other's again. Hopefully the 'newbies' will read it also and gain some comfort that our loved ones are still with us.

It's been almost 6 months since I lost my Daisy now, but I still feel her strongly. I haven't had an experience as intense as the one I shared in the first post, but just 'feelings' that she has come to visit me. Sometimes I'll be walking past the area where her bed was, and I will just stop dead in my tracks, and get this powerful sense of her presence. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed I'll get that "warmth" that I described and I'll think of her and smile. Sometimes I will even go as far as saying, "Hello" and "I love you" to her.

I hope this brings you comfort. And I hope you feel your precious Kitty near too.

Cheryl xx