What happens to animals after they die?
This question was the theme of the informal poll that I’ve been running on the Animal Translations website during the last two months. Well, the results are in! A full 75% of those who responded believe that animals have a spirit which lives on, after death. Not only that, but these respondents also said that they had received a tangible sign–such as a sound or smell–of their animal’s presence, and had even experienced a visitation from their animal in spirit form. Interestingly, the most common sign of an animal’s continued existence came in the form of a distinctive sound (such as the gentle jingling of the collar tags that I had heard after my Springer, Randy, had died). One said, “My first cat had to be euthanized as a result of a serious illness. She wore a bell on her collar, and maybe 2 weeks or a month after she was gone, I swear that I could hear that bell! I sensed her in the room with me.” Another recalled, “Almost a year after my dog was gone, I heard his collar tags jing
