sisters dog

[snapdragon928]

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My sister recently had to put her dog china down due to two strokes and failing health. After she was put to sleep, the buried her in the back yard. Since then my sister has been having trouble sleeping and keeps hearing the dog crying or wimpering or barking. I would chalk this up to grief, but the husband is also hearing it. And they sleep in seperate rooms and he has the air conditioner going all the time. So, what do you think? He is also grieving hard over the dogs death, but it was my sisters dog.
As a side note, I am the person who had the story of a ghost dog when I was a kid.

[scarygirl67]

Aw, I am so sorry for your sister. Losing a pet is losing a member of the family. And it could be grief, and I would imagine that it is a sound they are still very much hearing, as they had gotten used to it.

If there is something going on, I would look at it this way...dogs pick up on what their owners are feeling. My guess is your sister's beloved pet would not want her to be so sad.

[Roland]

I told a story here once about a little dog i had that was lost then later i found out had been hit by a car. And i had a dream about the dog.
In my opinion dog's have a soul, and a awareness of being, there are numerous veternarian's who hold the same opinion. Just do a search on the web for some articles on the subject.

Pain, suffering,and loss is not just for us human's, we cannot be so blind and arrogant to assume otherwise. IMO

[Goonis38]

Animals for sure have some kind of connection with us, especially if you have had them for awhile. I had a cat I loves so much. That has been gone for about ten years now. And sometimes I would swear my dog has that cats soul in him. I have had this dog about eight years now, and they even look the same. Cranium I remember that story you wrote about your dog that was so sad, I'm sorry...

[vzy4kat6387]

This story reminds me of how my dog went, he suffered from real bad seizures plus had a stroke that left his one side weak. I'm glad I wasn't there to see him have the seizures, I would have lost it. He was living with my grandmother who's out in Ohio right now. And from she explained happen hurt to even listen.

She took him to the vet's office and the vet she took him to said that if his seizures were to continue it would only worsen so the best thing to do would be to put him to sleep. And so that's what she did she didn't want to see him suffer and couldn't bare to see him suffer, and after they put him to sleep they left him laying on the exam table and told her if she wanted to go back there to see him before he was sent off to be cremated she could and she did for a few minutes as if to say her last goodbye's.

He was cremated and she took the picture I had sent to her that I re did on photobucket and pasted it on the can & has it on her computer desk right above the monitor. I miss the little guy, he was my first dog and I got him when I was 6 or somewhere in that age criteria and he recently passed in 09. I was 22 when he passed.

[beauseant]

My son had to have his beloved horse, Prince, put down last September. It shook our family deeply....

For a few months after Prince's death, there were strange occurances at the barn.

My son has 20/13 vision, and while turning out his other horse one evening, saw a shadow of a horse in the empty pasture to his right. He swears he saw a horse in the pasture....but nothing was there.

Later, late one evening, while doing work in the indoor arena with his other horse, he heard a horse whinny off to his left...his other horse heard it too....but there are no horses to the left of the arena, only the neighboring house, and they don't have horses.

As I said, this horse's passing has affected us all deeply....I STILL cry when I think or talk of him.....

I thought time would ease the pain, but I STILL miss him, despite the fact that we now have two horses of our own...does it EVER get better?

[Andrasta]

When I was young, I had a dog of my own - separate from the one my parents owned - and when mine died, I was laying on my bed the day she'd been taken to the vet to be put down and I heard her come into my room and sigh deeply.

When I lived in California, some of my friends told me that their deceased great dane appeared in the hallway many times in the very spot she slept.

[K2M]

I am so sorry for your loss. Our pets are part of the family, and yes they do morn for us also. I still see my shi-tzu that passed away in 2003 under my feet in the kitchen at times. Ozzy passed away at 13 from congestive heart failure, he had been ill for a long time. He was buried on our property, but we dont live there any more, we also had a cat buried there. We used to see her peep in the door at times.

My dog that i have had now for almost 7 years also sees him, and that really freaks him out. So, our Ozzy has followed us to our new house and he loves roaming around and freaking out our Scooter,,,lol...

Im sure they have many pics. of thier sweet baby and will always remember him in thier hearts. It is a heart breaking time, for sure. they might need to have a talk with him and let him know that its ok to go on to doggy heaven, where he can play and be happy. Thats what we did, and it helped us a lot.

[snapdragon928]

Thank you everyone. She is having lots of troubles right now with health too. This was her kid, she has no kids. She has a cat who is twenty years old who is also sick and a younger cat. She considers them her children. I am sorry so many have lost pets, I have too but I was younger.