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I received the following email from Eric, who realized the signs and messages from his beloved dog, Angel.
Eric allowed me to share his experience with everyone so that you can learn from it and find signs from your own pets.
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Hello Rob - I just recently finished reading your book "Pets and the Afterlife". I found it very comforting in my situation.
I recently had to euthanize my 13 year old pit bull. She was my baby and it was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. She had a very aggressive cancerous tumor growing in her mouth. She had lost a lot of weight, and I could tell she was in pain. I had no choice but to let her go.
As I'm sure most people do when faced with the same decision, I was filled with self doubt and constantly worried if I was doing the right thing.
I read your book in the days leading up to her final day. The day I let her go, I had several occurrences of what had to be more than just coincidence. As you said in your book, there are no coincidences.
The morning of that day, I woke up with her lying next to me and I prayed for a sign that I was doing the right thing. Within an hour, she had somehow irritated the tumor in her mouth and it started bleeding profusely. When that happened, it removed all doubt that I was doing the right thing. The bleeding eventually stopped, but I knew I couldn't let her go on this way. It didn't occur to me that this could be the sign I asked for until a couple hours later.
Like you suggested in your book, before she passed I asked her to send me a sign from the afterlife that she had crossed over and she was ok.
Later that night, after she had passed, I was reading an article online about animals moving on to the afterlife. In the comments for the article there where numerous people telling their stories about their encounters with their pets after they had passed and some of the strange occurrences that happened after their passing. There were 150+ comments and I read all of them.
Out of all the stories I read, only two of them were pit bulls.
In the first story, the person mentioned that they put their dog down on 7/28/2014. I thought that was a coincidence since mine passed on 7/28 also although it was two years later.
The second story was what really got me. It was about someone who had to euthanize their pit bull. This person later had a dream that her passed dog was playing with a grey pit bull in her back yard. She thought this was strange because she had never seen the grey one before. When she went back to work as a vet tech, she heard scratching and whining at the gate which led to the alley behind the veterinary office. She opened the gate and it was the grey pit bull from her dream. She said it had needed medical attention so she took it inside and they doctored it up. She decided to adopt it and name it Angel. I could not believe it when I read this because my dog's name was Angel.
I immediately felt this strong sense of comfort come over me. I felt immediately that this was the sign I asked for. I felt it was beyond coincidence for the only two pit bull stories to have something in common with my dog. It was like the universe conspired to have me reading this exact page and those comments where I would see and make that connection.
What is your take on this? Is this my sign?
Eric
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My Response:
Eric- I felt an overwhelming sense of love an appreciation to you from her. You let her pass with
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- She also led you to read those responses. She was sitting by your side in spirit and encouraged you to read through all of them to find the 2 messages that you found. She tells me that normally you're not that patient! Funny what dogs can tell us! The date and the name were the 2 things you need to find on that page, and you would not have found them together anywhere else. She influenced you to read through the comments to find them. What a wonderful confirmation that she's always going to be around you, and will be waiting for you on the other side when it's your time.
Thank you for your email! Angel really is an angel, and can be very persuasive.
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Eric's Response;
Rob- Seeing that sign has really helped me cope with her loss. It gives me the sense that I have not really lost her at all and that she will always be with me.
If I would have never read your book, it wouldn't have ever occurred to me to ask her for a sign. I have no way of knowing if I would have gotten it anyways, but I'm certainly glad I asked.
