Horse/Animal ghosts - Have you ever seen one?

[Steffanie]

Follow on from the have you ever seen a ghost thread. Reading peoples post about their own experiences got me thinking about the time i saw my horse who had recently past.

I lost my clydesdale mare and her foal (within a few moths of each other) a few years ago and it must have been several week afterwards i was walking through the barn tending to my mums pony and out the cornor of my eye i caught a glimpse of my mare standing in the door way looking straight at me. Spinning round there was actually nothing there but as i contined on i heard her big heavy feet stomping round the barn and the occasional snort (there were no other horses or people on the yard at the time and i'd no her big flipper feet anywhere) i was enjoying hearing her again so decided to keep on with what i was doing. my mums pony suddenly threw her head up and let out one heck of a whinney, so i quickly lifted my head in the direction she was looking and for just a split second i saw my clydesdale mare and her foal nuzzling. They then dissapeared into thin air.

Do you think it was mabe a sign that they were ok and had met each other once more? I like to think so anyway.

Has anyone else ever experienced something like this with a past horse or pet?

 

[Foxhunter49]

Many times.

My old Border Collie was over 18 when I had her PTS, she remained alpha of the dog pack despite her age.

One evening my Greyhound started to cry when he was halfway down the stairs, I had nodded off on the sofa and automatically got up to move the old dog - she would lay at the bottom of the stairs and not let the grey up or down so he would cry to be let past.

Another night I had nodded off on the sofa and I felt my arm being nudged, just as the olf girl would wake me up when she thought it was time for her night time biscuit. She had been gone a couple of years.

 

[Cobi]

Tht must have been lovely to see them together again!! i believe in ghosts, more animal than human too, i keep ferrets and i often see my ones tht have passed. I just smile.

 

[Spiritedly]

I used to loan a horse, Con, who used to scrape the floor and do a certain whicker at feed times, I had him for about 3 years then he went back to his owners and I got a horse of my own. I was preparing my new horses tea one evening when I heard Cons scrape and whicker, I looked out of the feed room, it was attached to the stable, but there were no horses around. When I got home my mum told be Cons owner had phoned and he had been pts that evening. When I called her back it turned out he had died minutes before I heard him in the stable!

 

[Steffanie]

Tht must have been lovely to see them together again!! i believe in ghosts, more animal than human too, i keep ferrets and i often see my ones tht have passed. I just smile.

was weird at the time but it totally put my mind at ease and was almost as if they were saying goodbye as neither realy got a chance to. I'm intears now after writing this has just brought back floods of memories with them both. My god if i'm like this writing about them i hate to think what'll i'll be like when my current mare leaves this earth i've had her over four years now.

 

[Cobi]

Oh bless you, its always sad whn animals leave us. Just get so attached to them, i often cry 2 whn talking about my babies that have left me. Just think there together and whn your mare goes she will find them and they will all be waiting for you at the bridge ((hugs)) xx

 

[Mare Stare]

My old cat. OMG I still miss him so much.

I've never actually seen him but just after he died, several times I felt something jump on my bed and curl up by my feet - just like he used to. One night I was so convinced there was a cat there that I tried to feel it with my hands but I couldn't feel it. I'm convinced it was him.

 

[Tickles]

'Seeing' something, or, more often someone, recently lost through either bereavement or separation is very common. It has happened to me with both animals and people, either seeing when there is nothing there or seeing another and momentarily thinking it is the lost one.

The difference for me is that I understand it as a symptom of bereavement or grief (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/emotional_health/bereavement/bereavement_effectsadults.shtml). Sort of like a waking dream, the mind processing what has happened versus what I wish has happened.

So, some 'seeing' but no ghosts for me.

 

[Celestica]

A number of years ago I was sleeping over at my yard (part of a pony camp) and we were playing up in the arena at 2am. At one point I was standing at A when at E I spotted a figure of a horse and thought nothing of it as at the outside of the arena there is a steep hill that none of the horses bothered going to. But as I walked over I began to realise it was Cassie, an 18hh beauty that died only that week and she was the only horse that ever went to that spot to graze.

It's comforting to see the ghost of a loved animal because it's in a way assuring that they're okay and not in pain anymore and that they wanted to show you that

 

[EquiGal92]

We always allowed the dogs to sleep on the beds, so when one of my dogs sadly passed away things started to become creepy!
Firstly we had a cat (like the dogs was perfectly allowed to sleep on the beds) and at first I thought the dead weight on my legs whilst lying in bed was due to the cat sleeping on them, turned on the light and the cat was sleeping on the chair oppiosite the room, so I clicked my fingers and said "OFF" (the exact command that was used to my dog when she was alive), the weight came off my legs and then I heard the thumping sound that a dog makes when jumping off the bed
Another one was that the cat was having a crazzzy moment running around the house and stopped dead (and did that scary hunched back cat look thing LOL!) at nothing on the staircase - the exact place where my dog loved to sleep!

 

[Nollaig Shona]

I used to have a cat who liked to headbutt my legs when he was hungry, or wanted a pat, or up on my lap...

After he passed away I used to feel something butting my leg quite often

 

[Marymary]

I lost a horse who was my best friend early this year, I was devastated..he had been my top horse for 7 years and was a dear friend too my life revolved around him. I struggled after losing him as he was lost through the actions of a vet practice which included incorrect treatment, out of date anti biotics and refusal to give me sufficent pain relief for him...anyway I found it very hard as he should have still been with us .

About 2 months after he was Pts I started seeing him, didn't dare tell anyone as felt a total idiot at that point.

Our builders were doing some work on the yard in the summer and one of them came rushing to me at the house to say 'My black horse was loose on the yard' ...the only black horse I had was the boy I lost and the builders didn't know we had lost him...they felt so terrible about it as I got upset.


I last 'saw him' towards the end of the summer I was sweeping up when I suddenly heard a horse move outside behind me and there he was just standing there right outside his old box ...looked so real and wonderful...his field companion , a mare was in her box and she was frantically neighing and almost trying to climb over her door to get out she obviously could see him too...I dropped the brush and went straight towards him as just wanted to give him a hug but of course he had gone...it really upset me at the time. I quite often sense his is about but haven't seen him since the day he was outside his stable.