Pets & the paranormal

[dens]

I have been wanting to discuss this for quite a while, having observed some unexplainable things related to my pets before.

This is a question I pose for anyone, the occasional observer and trained investigators out there. Have you ever had an experience involving your dog, or cat or other domestic animal? And investigators: have clients ever included accounts involving their pets? What do you make of these accounts? How much can or should you rely on a story involving paranormal and animals?

I remember stumbling upon a website a couple years ago where a man and his wife journaled the events taking place in their house and more often than not it seemed like the family dog took the brunt of it. And now having being tuned to radio and TV shows I find it strange that there aren't more cases that mention pets alerting to paranormal activity.

[aneaglesangel]

Oh yes! Pets are sensitive to the paranormal. I can't say how many times my poor cat, Sapphire would up and scram from a room with her tail all swollen up, LOL! On one of the most powerful attacks that I can remember, where I was actually injured trying to protect my baby, I was asleep. The first thing I heard was my cat ripping out from under the bed, scramming so fast she hit the wall and took off. Then those familiar footsteps on the end of my bed and I was in for a nasty night!! I can't count how many times my cat would notice activity and run when it occurred, she was terrified of the nasty thing that used to bother my family, and the ghosts too. She would have none of that. I also wonder about my birds, they seem to be fine and suddenly freak out. But them being birds and a bit more spooky than cats and dogs, I can't really take it as seriously as the cat. Many times when my cat was freaking out, outright things were happening, such as the inhuman attacks, or the ghostly activity, such as lights turning on and off, or voices, etc. Man that cat could run and hide faster than you can shake a stick!! But yes, I believe pets are sensitive, maybe even more sensitive than us. After all, I'm sure my cat was sleeping under the bed just like I was, when that thing attacked that night, and it woke her up before it did me!

Many times clients mention their animals acting strangely, or being afraid of activity in their homes, too!

Awesome topic!

[dens]

oh God poor you and poor cat! *hugs*

cats must be awesome alarms because they're so aggressive in their reactions aren't they?

my dog was much closer to my mother so she's the one who can probably tell more but there was one instance where I actually was the one to see him act strange.

Being a night person I was here late night talking to a friend from college when I suddenly look down and to the left and my dog is sitting next to me in sentinel mode but shaking allover. Two things were strange about it, that he was with me at that time, he should have been in my mom's bedroom like every night, and that he was shaking like that!
I immediately tried looking for signs of injury but he was fine, then I put him on my lap and started petting him and talking to him and he wouldn't stop shaking. I noticed the bathroom window was banging, but it was a windy night - then again the dog wouldn't be afraid of a banging window, usually he'd bark at any noise, not be afraid of it, that's what most dogs are good at any way. If there was someone breaking in the natural reaction would be to bark too. So I started freaking out and I took him to my mom's bedroom, and woke her up, and we both had to sit with him for over 40 minutes before he relaxed and actually lay down and slept. It was very frightening - something we couldn't see was really terrorizing that dog! He looked scared too, he'd look at us and we'd see that he was scared.

I'm pretty sure if people pay close attention to their pets they will know something isn't right.

[aneaglesangel]

Aw poor thing! It must have been frightening for you, not knowing what was going on! At least with my cat, I knew what she was all about, and she made it much more obvious! Swollen tail, ripping claws, LOL!