Will I See My Pet Again? What Mediumship Reveals About Pets in Heaven

Pets in Heaven, from a medium’s perspective. Will you see them again? Are they okay? Can they send signs? Are they alone?

Today we’re talking pets in heaven, what I actually sense when animals come through, what they want you to know, and the signs they use to say “I’m still here.” We’ll also gently address guilt around their passing and bring comfort to any parts of you that may still wonder if you did the right thing.

Because love doesn’t stop at the edge of this world. 

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Hey, beautiful soul. Welcome infor another episode of spirit

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speakeasy. Today, we are goingto be talking about, by popular
request, pets in heaven. Peopleoften ask me, as a medium, will
I see my pet again? Where arethey? Can they communicate
through a medium? And today, weare really going to talk about
what mediumship reveals aboutpets in heaven. If you have ever

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loved an animal like reallyloved an animal, you know that
their presence settles into ourlives in ways that's deeper than
words. They really kind of curlup into our routines and anchor
us during seasons of our liveswhere everything feels unsteady
and somehow they manage to seethe very best parts of us, even

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on the days we struggle to seeit ourselves. I believe, because
I've had animals, belovedanimals, in my life, that
animals have a soul. They're notjust little creatures moving
around with no thoughts and nofeelings and no soul energy
inside. If you've ever reallyloved an animal, you know that

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there is a little soul insidethere. So when they leave this
world, the grief can honestlyfeel just as heavy, just as
complex, just as life shaking,as losing a person that we care
about. And for some people, insome circumstances, it can feel
even more profound than losing aperson, sometimes our fur babies

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or our beloved furry friends,even you know, I've even known
people that have had unusualpets, or pets that don't have
any fur at all, and they aresometimes some of the most
intimate relationships in ourlives. We share everything with
them. They see us at our bestand our worst, and sometimes
even more so than the humancounterparts in our life. So one

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of the most common questions Iget asked as a medium is, where
did my pet go? Are they okay?
Will I ever see them again? Andtoday's episode is for every
sensitive soul out there who hasever asked these questions
within themselves, not from aplace of theology or theory, am

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I going to talk today, butreally the real evidence and
details and feelings that I'vefelt and seen and been shown
again and again throughmediumship, the way animals show
up, how they communicate whatthey communicate, the
personalities that they stillhave, and the unmistakable
reassurance that they haveoffered through many sessions

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over the years. From the otherside, we're going to talk about
what actually, what I actuallyperceive as a medium when I
communicate with pets on theother side, the messages they
most consistently communicatefrom the other side, the truth
about guilt, especially aroundchoices that we have to make at
the end of our pets lives,sometimes, and how pets continue

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to guide us and support us aftertheir passing. Plus, we can talk
about some signs that animals inthe spirit world can use to let
us know that they're stillaround. So please know that I'm
going to use interchangeablyanimals, pets, furry loved ones,
and you could just use whateverform of that word fits your pet
that is on the other side orthat you are wondering about,

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and you'll also he'll hear somepersonal stories and client
experiences that beautifullyillustrate how deeply and how
specifically our pets cancontinue to stay connected with
us from the other side. Sowhether you are freshly in your
grief of the loss of a pet, orremembering a pet from years
ago, or even just curious abouthow animals and their souls can

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fit into the unseen world. Thisepisode is meant to bring
comfort and clarity and maybeeven a sense of reunion or
possibility, even if it's onlyenergetically or soul to soul
right now. So take a big, deepbreath, get yourself something
warm to drink if you can, settlein and let's step into this

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gentle, sacred conversationtogether. So first, let's get
into what do I feel? See sense,know as a medium when pets cross
over. So when pets communicatefrom the other side, what am I
experiencing as a medium whenI'm connecting with the spirit
world in general, and animalscan arrive in communications

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with just as much personality,clarity and emotional presence
as the humans that you haveheard me talk about, the beloved
loved ones on the other side,when animals show up, they don't
show up as symbols or abstractbeings. They show up as a soul
in my awareness, and I can blendthe energy of my soul with the
energy of theirs, very similarto the way that I would work

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with a human soul, a person, andthey show up exactly the way
that you knew them for the mostpart, their their personality,
their energy, the essence ofthem, is typically pretty easily
recognizable to my clients,because the bond between the
animal and their person is aspecial relationship. So even an

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animal on the spirit side cancommunicate their personality
memories from their life.
Sometimes, some animals willshare about their passing,
particularly if there is a needfrom their human friend to have
something explained oralleviated or just some clarity
on that end part of their life.

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And sometimes they can come insoftly. At first, they are often
coming into the sessionaccompanied by human
counterparts, even though theydon't have to. So I mean, I have
had sessions that are primarilyanimals, but typically a human
companion will come into thesession if they're on the other
side, and the pet companion willaccompany them. And they really

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commonly communicate love andso many details about their
personality. It's kind ofinteresting to me, because I
sometimes feel like, you know,as humans, when we have this
life experience, there are messyparts for us, particularly in
our emotions. We go throughchallenges and difficult
relationships, and we behave indifficult ways, and sometimes

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have lots of things to makeapologies for. Where I find that
animals, perhaps it's just thethe gentle, pure nature of them,
where particularly, like I'mthinking dogs and cats and
horses, they don't get attachedto mistakes that humans make.
They don't get attached to toughtimes that they might have had.
They do, as we know throughscientific research about

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animals, they have, they canhold on to fear, right, if they
were abused or something, butthey have this almost like a
reset within them that allowsthem to really, quote, unquote,
let go of those types ofdifficult things, so they are
typically communicating theirpersonality and happy emotions.
And if you have ever loved apet, you know that they do have

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very different personalities,just like our family members. So
they can express theirpersonalities, parts of their
story, the quirks or preferencesthey have. And again, if you've
ever loved an animal, you knowthat they definitely have their
quirks and preferences. Forexample, I've had them

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communicate the exact spot onthe couch that they claimed, or
where that they would like to belaying down in the room for
their vantage point that theyliked, or perhaps they like to
sprawl out in the sunlight thatstreams through your living room
or bedroom. Sometimes they'llcommunicate things about that.
Sometimes they'll share, forexample, the backyard that they
loved running in, or the parkthat you took them to, that they

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like to go for walks, or the toythat they refuse to part with.
Or I had one recently that had afavorite, like stuffed animal.
And I even came to know that thefamily kept this stuffed animal
with them as they were going tothe vet at the end of their
life, and making theirtransition, the family had put
this really special stuffy withthem, and it meant a lot to

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everyone involved. It can evenbe silly personality traits or
behaviors. I've had somecommunicate that they love to be
dressed up in little sweatersand hats, and others that
communicated that theyabsolutely hated to be dressed
up in sweaters and hats.
Sometimes they will share theirexpressions. For example, I'm

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thinking of a recent dog who wasin the bully family that was
communicating from the otherside. And this dog was so
expressive with their face, intheir relationship with their
human counterparts. And it wasalmost like this dog made like
very human like expressions withtheir eyebrows, with their gaze,
with their sad eyes. And so theywere able to communicate that

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they can even communicate thingslike the way that you
memorialized them, or a favoritephoto that you still have on a
nightstand of them. I recentlyhad a little fur baby
communicate that his parents,his human parents, were
remembering him. They had thesespecial pillar kids. Candles
made, and the glass that holdsthe candle had a photo of the

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dog when it was a puppy, andthen at the end of its life, on
either side, so it was able toshare that, you know, it knew
how it was being memorializedand where the candle was, and
some other details about thingsthat they had saved of the
animals and ways that they werememorializing them. And I've
even had them share detailsabout like a recent family

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birthday party or gathering orsomething that's going on in the
family they were a part of,because they're still a family
member. They still care aboutwhat's going on in the family.
Sometimes they'll share, oh, myperson is thinking about getting
a new dog, and I just want tolet them know that I think
that's a great idea when they'reready, or they just got a recent

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furry, you know, new animal totake them on walks and things.
So they will often communicateabout these kind of things. I
had a rescue dog show. She wasbeautiful. She was showing that
she was very skittish and veryuncomfortable, particularly with
men, due to a part of her lifebefore this family received her.

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And they were saying, yeah, theydidn't know a lot about that
part of her life, but they didknow that she had been found,
you know, taken from a badsituation and kind of like a
backyard situation, and thatthey did recognize this part of
her personality, but this dogwas communicating how
appreciative she was to this newfamily and how much she loved

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being a part of the family. Andthis one was particularly
bittersweet, because they didhave to make some choices at the
end of this dog's life, shestarted to have some, I don't
know if they call it this fordogs. It's sort of like an
Alzheimer's or dementia. And shestarted getting really easily
scared in a different way. Andsome health problems arose, and

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they just had to make somedecisions that they were having.
The family was having somereally tough feelings about and
really tough time kind ofresolving themselves with if
they did the right thing, if thetiming was right. And this dog
just kept communicating allthese bits and examples of the
way this family loved this dogwith all of their hearts and

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that they were a true member ofthe family. They showed laying
down watching movies with thetwo kiddos in the family, and
how one of the kiddos alwaysseemed to be giving the dog bits
of snacks and cheese, and theyshowed how the dad had a special
routine at the end of the daywhen he came home from work with
the dog, and how they would playand exercise, and how the dog

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would follow the mom around inthe day when the kids were gone
at school and they Were justalone, and it was kind of like
her protector and her sweetlittle friend. So they really do
quite similar to a human, havetheir memories and know who they
are, and know who you are, andknow about the family that
they're a part of. They sharelove for their family, how loved

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they still are and were whenthey were physically here. And
sometimes they'll share detailsabout their passing. No matter
how they crossed over, theydon't return to me in distress.
So just like human loved ones onthe other side, there are all
types of ways that an animal cancross over to the spirit world,
as we know and oh, I'm thinkingof a really tough one. I'm going

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to give a little bit of atrigger warning here. I won't go
into super specifics, but I'llgive you the gist. I had a
little tiny fur baby communicatethat they weren't really an
outside pet. They were an insidepet, but they had been following
the family, kind of in and outof the house that day. This is
in the greater San Diego,Southern California area, and as

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they were following the familyin and out, they just something
caught their eye. They wentrunning into the yard. They were
having a little bit ofadventure. And when the family
went back in for a few moments,this animal stayed outside, and
the family was just right backin and out. But everything
happened so quickly, and sadly,a big Hawk, or like a predatory

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bird, swooped down and took thislittle fur baby, and they
communicated that, and they evenwanted to share like, I'm okay.
It's nobody's fault. It's fine.
It's I'm at peace. I still lovemy family. I'm not upset,
because, as you might imagine,even though this is just a
terrible accident, the familywas really carrying broken
hearted feelings over this. Soanimals are just as able as

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humans to communicate from theother side and bring healing and
love and relief, and they don'tshow trauma or fear. They show
me relief and release and returnto the spirit world, just like
the rest of the family. And I'veeven had one kind of recently
that it was, it was that myclient's mom on the other side,

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and there was a small animal,like a lap size animal. And I
was like, your mom keepsindicating that she has a little
lap size animal with her, thatshe's. Loving and caring for,
and I feel like this animalbelongs to you. And my client
said, Yeah, and that's so funny,because my mom didn't really
like dogs. She was here. So it'sreally funny that you know, on

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the other side, things aredifferent. Everyone's at peace.
Everyone gets along, and again,they sometimes will share who
they're with. On the other side,as far as family or even other
furry fur babies that we've hadin the past, they sometimes will
share adventures they're having.
They often express, like I said,a sense of peace and happiness
and just the pure love that theyknow that their family was

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giving them. And you know, Ioften also get asked, What do
pets on the other side, wanttheir human people to know the
most. And over the years, I'venoticed some patterns in what it
seems like animal soulsconsistently communicate once
they're in the spirit world.
These messages do tend to repeatthemselves with incredible
frequency, and it seems to be nomatter the species or the breed

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or the age or the circumstancesof their life or their passing,
and one of the clearest themesthat they understood from far
more than we give them creditfor, is that they show the love
that they receive, and they showour emotional state at the end

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of their lives. So they oftenshow me what their family was
trying to do for them, keep themcomfortable. I've seen, you
know, treats at the end of life.
I've seen vets coming to housesso they could be maintained.
I've seen kids coming home fromcollege to love up on their
animals before it's time to saytheir final goodbyes. So they

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really do communicate all of thelove and tenderness that they
received and and show what thefamily was trying to do for
them. They show me theirgratitude. They communicate kind
of the highlights of how lovedthey felt, how great their
family is, and even when thingsmight have been
challenging or gone awry, orsomething accidental or

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unforeseen might have happened,and they also bring forward
really fun memories that areoverwhelmingly positive, the
playful routines, familiar timesand play times in daily life,
the way you spoke to them, therhythms that they shared with
you. Sometimes they will sharehow spoiled they were, or even
how much they loved, oh, I hadone recently that, like, would

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express how much they reallyloved that, like, puppuccino
thing, the whipped cream cupthat some coffee places do for
dogs that like, oh yeah, me andmy mom, we went every morning we
drop off my siblings, my humansiblings at school, and then I
would get my puppuccino, and Iwas so popular at this coffee
place, and and it's those reallytender, poignant moments that

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really prove to me that eventhough they are in an animal
body, they are a soul having anexperience, and they're sharing
this is what I carry with me,and the love is what truly
mattered. Now, again, I'm goingto give a little bit of a
trigger warning, because I feellike we need to talk about the
topic of euthanasia, orsometimes in common language, we

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call it, needing to put ouranimal down or put them to
sleep, help them transition. Andthey will sometimes not always
communicate about this. I wantto quickly highlight that most
mediumship communications, andmost of the pieces of the
communication are all pointedtowards or based on the greatest

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need of our soul, our soul ortheirs. So they won't always
bring it. It's just if there isa need to communicate or heal
something around a euthanasia,then sometimes it will come up,
but it's not like a mandatory,oh, they always talk about this,
just for your information. Andof course, as people, as human

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beings, we struggle with guiltand doubt and the question of
whether we made the right choicefor them at the right time,
because sometimes the timingfeels terrible and it is an
incredibly hard choice to make,but what animals show me
repeatedly is acceptance, istheir deep wisdom and

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understanding as a soul thattheir human was doing The most
compassionate thing for them,they sometimes will communicate,
while my human companion wasreally just kept going over and
over in their mind, over thelast six months of my life,
looking at what kind of qualityof life I was getting, and it
was really hard for them to letme go, but they did realize that

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I was not having a good qualityof life, and it was the right
timing for me, sometimes theyexpress relief from pain and
discomfort or like an illnessthat couldn't be cured or that
we couldn't find but it alwaysseems to come with a sense of
gratitude that their personeased their suffering and put
those hard. Feelings aside to dowhat was right for their beloved

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animal. They don't assign blame,they don't hold resentment.
Their emotional perspective isfar more compassionate than the
stories we tell ourselves ashuman beings. I'm thinking of
one recently that was a reallyhard situation in this family.
They had just brought theirsecond baby into the world and

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their beloved animal, who theyhad had since before they were
married and before they hadkids, it was like their first
baby, is kind of the way theysaid it. And right around the
time of the arrival of theirsecond baby, they needed to make
a choice about putting theiranimal into that peaceful
transition with the vet. So whatwas so challenging for them is

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that they just had the mostguilty feelings. Because
particularly the mom, since shewas home, the most felt like,
wow. Well, this is my firstbaby, and I love this animal so
much, and in the last, you know,six months of its life, I really
wasn't giving it as muchattention, and I wasn't doing
the walks and the time, becauseI was so at the end of my
pregnancy, and I have a littlekid, and it was just so hard.

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And actually, right around thebirth of the child was when the
health started really decliningof this animal, and the mom just
felt like, I just feel terrible,because I don't want them to
think that they were replaced orthat I didn't love them because
I was having this baby. Andactually, what this dog
communicated was that it wasreally part of their journey to

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try to stay as long as theycould, to support the mom
through this part of herpregnancy, because she had a bit
of a rocky pregnancy, especiallyat the end, and that once they
knew the baby was going toarrive safely, that they knew
that they could go, that theyhad been hanging on for the mom,
and that they were so, sograteful that the baby was safe

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and that it could be their timeto go to their eternal rest, if
you will. So they really do havemuch more of a compassionate and
pure perspective that we than wedo. And I also want to highlight
because this comes up as aconcern for people quite a bit.
If someone was not able to bethere at the moment that their
pet passed, animals often showme that they were not alone.

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I've had it come up over theseyears where perhaps the animal
passed away and their peopleweren't there. Perhaps it wasn't
with a vet, perhaps it was adifferent way, or they just
couldn't be there, or a memberof the family couldn't be there.
And they will often show me, inthose cases, who greeted them on
the other side, what they felt,how much they remain connected

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with their person or theirpeople or their family, even
from the other side. Many times,they'll show me that the person
they loved was protected in someway from having to witness an
extremely difficult moment. Theyframe it more as mercy or grace
and not as an emotion ofabandonment. And something else
that comes through sobeautifully is that animals do

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not move on, quote, unquote,away from us. Just like our
spirit, people, our loved oneson the other side, they stay
with our family and stay aroundus and close to us. Even from
the other side, they feel noneed to choose between peace and
connection. They really are ableto hold both in a beautiful,

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loving way, which actuallydoesn't surprise me, because if
you've ever had an animal thatyou've loved, you know their
capacity to have kindness andlove and softness, even when
chaos is going on for us, theycan just be so grounded and
supportive and sometimesunbothered. Now I also get this
question, can beloved petscontinue to guide us from the

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other side? And I think it's areally good question, so we're
going to chat a little bit aboutit. One of the most surprising
things for people to hear isthat pets can continue to
support us and even sometimesplay a small guiding role in our
lives after they'vetransitioned. If you have
listened to any of the spiritguide episodes, you will know
that I believe that we all haveour own team of guides,

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advisors, loved ones, thatsometimes will serve as
inspirers or supporters. They'renot technically a spirit guide,
but they are on our proverbialteam. As far as supporters and
animals really are no exceptionto this, they can also become
part of our teams of supportersafter they've transitioned kind
of how they're part of our teamsof supporters in life. Now it

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doesn't mean that they become afull time spirit guide, in a way
that we normally talk aboutspirit guides, but it does mean
that they remain activeparticipants in the energy of
our lives, similar to how a bestfriend or a special family
member would still care aboutyou and want to support you and
encourage you from the spiritworld, I had one recently,

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actually, and his person thisanimal on the other side, his
human person was he wascommunicating that she was
having something in her health.
Mouth that meant she wassupposed to be walking. I can't
quite remember what it was. It'slike a circulatory issue. So I
don't know if it was like a prediabetes or just
like a lymphedema, swelling ofthe legs, but I just remember

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the swelling part. I don'tremember the actual condition,
because it's been a littlewhile, but what this dog was
communicating is, hey, my humanmom is supposed to be walking,
and I was really trying to helpher with that and get her
moving. And if she's not goingto be doing it on her own,
because she hasn't been doingit, I'm encouraging her to get
another dog or to walk with afriend in the neighborhood that

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does have a dog, because sheneeds to be focusing on her
health. So it was still comingthrough to encourage her and
support her and give her alittle loving nudge about her
health. And again, sometimesthey do comfort us or nudge us
emotionally. It can be a suddenshift in the level of comfort we

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feel. It can be memoriesflooding in, reminding us of
them, or even a little memorythat just shifts our focus or
softens the hard place thatwe're in. It can be a little bit
of intuition that comes in. Itcan be a gentle softening of
anxiety in the same way that,like a support animal, might
help us gently soften ouranxiety. Other times, they draw

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our attention to something likea distraction, almost. It can
show up as a sign. It can showup as a little nudge about a
healthy habit, like this walk Iwas talking about, or a new pet,
like this walk, or like othertimes that I've had, or even a
person that they're encouragingus to spend more time with. So
they really do continue tosupport because we we are

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connected as souls through thelove that we share, and the love
of a pet or an animal is no lessthan the love of a person.
Often, again, it's not everyanimal is more than every
person, but there are thosespecial animals that come into
our lives that we haveincredibly deep and special and
profound relationships withsometimes animals even seem to,

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like, introduce new companions.
I had this come up recently.
I'll talk about it in a sec. Iwas thinking of this occasion
recently when this it was agroup reading, actually, and it
was a family and other familymembers have had come through.
And then in the last quarter ofthe reading, I was like, you
guys, I'm so aware of this pet.
Are you okay to hear from what Ifeel like is a dog? And they

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were like, yeah, actually,that's why we wanted to have
this group reading. Is becausewe wanted to hear from our dog,
which is wonderful. I'm gladsome of human came through as
well, just because, you know, Iwanted them to get the best and
the most need cover, the mosthealing that they could get. But
this dog was communicating andwas indicating that, oh, we're

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about to get a new dog in thisfamily. And they said, Yes. And
I said, Is this coming about ina very like, serendipitous or
unusual way? Like you guysweren't looking for a dog. You
didn't feel ready for a dog.
There was a big discussionabout, you know, not getting a
dog for a while, and then, andthey said yes. And I said, you

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know, and then, serendipitously,someone's dog either had puppies
or has a dog that they found orcame across or are fostering
that now somehow crossed yourpath in a very unusual way, and
that is, I won't tell you allthe specifics, but that is a
version of what happened. Soit's really interesting that the
dog knew about it, and then Ihad kind of said, Do you feel

(28:31):
like your dog sort ofserendipitously was involved in
getting you together with thisnew dog? Because it just
happened in such a strange way,or, like, a serendipitous way.
And they were like, Oh my gosh,yes. We had been wondering if
our dog was trying to encourageus to have this new dog. And I

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believe what it was is that oneof the parents friends was
fostering some animals and justkind of got a new foster that
they didn't realize was going tohave puppies, and then of the
puppies not really putting twoand two together, someone in the
family that didn't know thiswhole family had named one of
the puppies the same name as thedog, and it was a whole thing.

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So they said it was soserendipitous that they had been
wondering, like, did our dog, isour dog involved in this. And
the dog was like, Yeah, that'sme. Because this dog was the
kind of dog, if you're oldenough to remember Lassie, that
was, like, very communicativeand very protective of the
family. And it did feel likesomething that this dog would

(29:34):
do. And in fact, the dogcommunicated that, yeah, it was
encouraging, and it did. It wasthe sort of the energy or the
emotion of, like, a wink and asmile, of like, yeah, maybe I
had something a little bit to dowith that so. And of course,
they're bringing this new familymember, not as a replacement,
but as a continuation of thelove and care and companionship

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that worked for this family, andeven if they didn't help Orca.
Straight, the new family member.
They often let me know that,hey, another pet is here. Or
even sometimes this justhappened yesterday. This happens
kind of frequently. They willacknowledge other pets that live
in the home or that are aroundwhere the person goes through
their day to day. It could be aneighbor, it could be someone at

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work, it could be, you know afriend that they regularly
visit, and they'll say, youknow, that other animal sees me.
I just had this yesterday, and Iwas kind of surprised, because
this person, it was, it wastheir spirit person on the other
side, and then spirit dog on theother side. And this person who
was was here, still in theliving they just couldn't bring

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their heart to get another dog.
They just didn't feel like theycould. But through another
friend, they were encouraged toget some little birds. And the
dog and the partner on the otherside were communicating, like,
oh yeah, they got these littlebirds. And I all of a sudden,
the dog was communicating. And Iwas like, do the birds sometimes

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go to one corner of the cage andjust really get excited, and you
hear them tweeting and flappingand doing all kinds of things?
And the person was like, yeah,that's been happening, and it's
very weird. And I was like, Oh,they see your dog, and your
dog's indicating they see him,and he's trying to play with
them in a safe way. So that wasreally funny, and in many

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different instances, they willcommunicate like, Oh, your
animal moves over. And that'sbecause my soul is still there
and I'm scooting into that dogbed next to them, or they look
off into the corner and arestaring at nothing, and it's
weird, and you're noticing it,and they're recognizing me. The
other dog is seeing me. Theyknow I'm here. They know I'm

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still here. So what animals cancommunicate about their
relationship with us reallyexpands, rather than ends. They
step in as supportive roles thatfit the energy of our family.
They are gentle and loving andpresent. And it's fascinating to
me, not only how they can stillbe part of our lives, but the

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ways that they communicate thatwe actually are already
recognizing, especially when itcomes to other pets or sometimes
little kids, recognizing themand seeing them. It is shocking.
It never continue. I mean, itnever ceases to amaze me. It
always continues to blow my mindhow they can still be a part of

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our lives. So let's talk alittle bit about pets and signs.
Do pets in the spirit world sendsigns? And if so, how does that
work? Okay, if you've everwondered whether a pet can send
a sign the same way a humanloved one can. The answer I see
again and again is yes, theycan, and they do. These signs
are sometimes a physicalsensation that someone in my

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life feels a dog kind of jump upgently on the bed like they used
to when they were here, so likea gentle feeling of them coming
next to you on the couch or atthe foot of the bed, if that's
where they like to be, a gentlepressure against your leg at
night, if that's how they slept,but it'll be far, far more
subtle than what you experiencedwhen they were here in their

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physical body, because it's thephysical body that gives more of
the weight to it. So don't besurprised if it is very subtle,
or if it's just in yourawareness and more of like the
memory of the feeling, and notnecessarily like the physical
feeling of a dog touching yourleg, it's very subtle. So
hopefully I'm making that makesense. It can even be I had this

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before we had a dog that crossedover to the spirit world, and I
just love her dearly. Still,there was a while where we still
would hear the sound of hernails on the hardwood floor, and
it was crazy because it was inthe house. More than just me as
a medium was hearing it. Otherfamily members were sometimes
hearing it. We had no other petsin the house at the time, there

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was no way a neighbor's petcould make a nails on our
hardwood floors in another partof the house make that noise. So
sometimes it can be a physicalsensation or an actual
manifested noise. Sometimes theywill say, there's like the light
jingling of a collar and youcan't quite place it, or the
sudden scent of their fur ortheir shampoo. Sometimes a sign

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can appear through the naturalworld, right? So animals can
help an animal cross your paththat kind of looks like them, or
that has the same name as them,or you might notice a repeated
encounter with the same breed ofdog as was your dog. And it
can't even be feeling totallyrandom where I'm thinking of a

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friend that this happened torecently, they had one of those
dogs that was like, I can'tthink of the name of right now,
but the hot dog kind the wienerdog. What is it? Dodge hound?
Yeah, the hot dog dog and theirdog crossed over, and about a
year later, they really werethinking about. A dog on the
anniversary of the passing, andthey called me, and they were

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like, This is the craziestthing. I feel like everywhere I
go, I see one of these dogs. Andfor a little while, they were
just sending me, like photos ofthem, because they just thought,
this is so mind blowing. And itwas in weird places. One of them
was they were at like a redlight stopped waiting to drive,
and this kind of a dog on alittle leash with their person
was crossing the street in frontof them. So it's not like they

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were seeking this out in anyway. They saw it on a bumper
sticker, on a t shirt, on a thereal dog, not even, not even
like at dog parks, but placesthat you're like that is
interesting, that this dog'scrossing your path here, right?
Yeah, like it's a doctor'sappointment, strange places. So
it can be you seeing the breedof your dog, or something that
reminds you of your dog over andover. And I have another friend

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that her beloved little fur babysends her a certain color of
butterflies. And when she seesthis color of butterflies, she
kind of gets a gentle feeling orwarmth about that dog, and she
knows it's them which is reallyincredible. So they can appear
through signs, through thenatural world, a moment of
synchronicity that feels like alittle bit of a wink from the

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other side. And other times,signs come in even more subtle
ways, like memories thatsuddenly feel alive or vivid or
unexpected, a memory youforgotten about. I've been
saying this to people oftenlately, because it's been coming
up again and again where we ashumans often have, I call it our
highlight reel. Kind of thememories that our mind wants to

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immediately go to about thatanimal or person even, and what
their soul sometimes does is,once in a while, we might have a
memory that we totally forgotabout, it could be a quick
memory, it could be a poignantmemory, it could be a funny
memory, but just somethingthat's not usually one of that
we think about, that we maybeforgotten happened. And as they
blend their soul with ours, theycan bring a memory to the

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surface that we had forgottenabout, and that's one of the
ways that they can show up andreminisce with us and support us
and love us. You might feel orsense them nearby, or sense
their personality in a way thatfeels spontaneous and
comforting. And if you've hadpets with big personalities, I
certainly have had a few thatare just special and have really

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big personalities. They do. Iknow this might sound crazy, if
this is not your experience, butthey do have their own
personality and sense of humorand certainly their own way of
communicating. I had a dog thatwould, it's the same dog that I
was talking about earlier. Shewould, kind of, we called it
foo. She would kind of like blowair out of her nose at you and

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shake her head at you, tocommunicate. And so sometimes
there might be something thathappens that just reminds me of
her or gives me a little chuckleof that feeling of her tenacity
or her stubbornness or herlittle attitude that she would
get. So it can even be as subtleas that, and can feel
spontaneous or comforting orjust like a beautiful moment of

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connection in the way weremember them.
I have another friend on theother side who has ladybugs that
cross her path when her belovedfur baby is around. And it is
really interesting the way thatthese ladybugs come in. It's
sometimes a real Ladybug. She'sreceived them on random greeting
cards or circulars that come inthe mail. She's seen them on

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bumper stickers. She's seen themon hats. I mean, it's really
interesting. And frequently, ina place where it seems unusual
to have ladybugs, she will finda ladybug wandering in her
house, and she cannot figure outwhere they're coming from or how
they're getting there. And sheeventually, the truth is, she
stopped fighting against itbecause she was a bit skeptical,

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and finally just said, Okay, Iaccept that these ladybugs are
little hellos for my fur baby,and I'm just going to take them
because it's too much. I can'teven deny it anymore. So there
are so many ways that they cangive signs. And just so, you
know, similar to humans givingsigns, it's not that they need
us to do something. The sign isnot, hey, do this for me. The

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sign is, I love you. Hi, I'mstill here. I'm still supporting
you. I know what's going on inyour life. Our connection hasn't
broken. Our love still lives on.
So it's all of these thingswrapped into these little hellos
from heaven, hellos from thespirit world to recognize these
signs is like the same way youwould identify a spirit
communicator. It's in theemotional resonance, the timing,

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how the personality kind ofcomes through or feels
meaningful. Animals in thespirit world tend to send signs
that match either theirpersonality or something you
would connect with them, or away they want to express, like
butterfly for freedom, or couldbe something even silly, like

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playful. If they were gentle, itmight be soft and subtle. If
they were dramatic, you mightget big, unmistakable, funny
moments. So what really mattersmost is how the sign feels. You.
These are as personal to you andyour beloved furry friends as
they are to us with any of ourhuman loved ones. So what is a

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way that we can connect with ourpets? In the spirit world, there
really is a gentle practice thatyou can use if you want to feel
closer to a pet. On the otherside, it doesn't need to be big
or deep, or you don't need anyspecial training for it or
special tools, but you can gointo a state of awareness where

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you can gently spend time withthem from the spirit world, but
just know you don't have to dothis. They don't expect you to,
and they are still around you,whether you try to intentionally
kind of connect with them ornot, I would just recommend
finding a cozy place to sit ortake some moments to yourself.
Get a little bit grounded,whatever that is for you, I have

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some grounding exercises that Iteach. If you've been with me on
any of the workshops or things Iteach, you'll know what they
are. But get a little grounded.
Take some breaths and just startto let your awareness really
come into your body, not racingthrough your to do list or your
busy life, but really just beingin the center of your head, in
your body. Feel your feet on thefloor, on your seat. Allow your

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enter energy to like, settle in,become calm. Get a sense of your
own self. In your personal spacebubble, which is your auric
field. Spend a few moments justyou, sitting in your own energy,
and then you can gently,energetically invite them in
next to you. You can say theirname quietly in your mind. You
can kind of hold a picture ofthem in your mind. Or you can

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just kind of send the gentleintention that you'd like them
to join you and connect with youin whatever ways most aligned
for both of you. But don'texpect it to be loud or
palpable, even if you get thevery light sensation of them
sitting with you or in your lapor touching you in any way. Just

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know it will likely be verysubtle. It's okay if it's not
that doesn't mean anything badeither. But just to set your
expectations appropriately, ifit feels very subtle, or even if
you feel like nothing'shappening, it is working, and it
just takes a little time andpractice and then just allow
whatever happens to happen. Youmight feel a sensation, a
memory, a warmth, maybe nothingat all will happen, but the

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intention itself is the soul tosoul connection, and you're
creating a space where therelationship and that connection
can continue in an intentionalway. But just like our human
loved ones, they do spend timewith us because of the love that
we share. So even if you decideyou don't want to do an exercise
like this, your furry loved onesare around you all the time.

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Now, some of you that asked forthis episode mentioned that you
really loved the I did adifferent version of this
episode A couple years ago whereI talked about how I started to
become aware of animalscommunicating on the other side,
because not all mediums believethat animal communication can
happen. Some mediums only doanimal communication, so there's
like a spectrum, and noteveryone agrees, but for me

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personally, I'm quite sure, justbecause it's happened so many
times. So if you remember thatepisode, I told a story about
one of the first spiritcommunications I gave after a
Reiki session, because I was soaware of a horse in my space
with its nose, it's it's, um,muzzle, I guess I don't. I'm not

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a horse person. I don't knowhorses. I don't know anything
about them. I think they'rebeautiful, incredible creatures.
They kind of scare me a littleif you want to know the truth,
just because they're so big andpowerful, and I have no
experience with them. Andeveryone I've ever known that
really loves horses has also hadbig horse injuries, so I'm a
little intimidated by them, notin the spirit world, but just as
a person, I don't know a lotabout horses. And the same

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experience, I won't tell thatstory again. It's in another
episode, if you want to hear it,look for the other pets in
heaven episode. But thatexperience, part of what the fun
was, was that horsecommunicated, not just its
presence and its personality,which did happen, but as part of
that communication, I remembertelling this person, I was like,

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This is so weird what I'm aboutto say to you. But you know, I
know that you live in a house,and I know that your horse
wasn't cared for at that housethat you had, like a stable that
was, you know, a little bit awaythat you were having your horse
cared for at but do yousometimes get the sense that
that horse is peering into yourhouse from a specific window

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that overlooks the kitchen sinkor part of the kitchen and she
was like, Oh my gosh, yes,that's the craziest thing. I
always feel or sense the horseon that side of the house. And
sometimes when I'm in thekitchen, I'm always thinking of
them when I'm looking out thatwindow, and I was like, because
they keep showing me, in mymind, a mental picture of this
part of your house, the window.
At that point, I had not been tothis person's house whatsoever,

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so I wouldn't have technicallyknown what it looked like. And
this horse just kept showing.
Their long, big, beautiful face,looking peering right in that
window with those beautifulbrown, intense horse eyes. So it
is really fascinating. And Ithrow that in there to let you
know that sure, a lot of us havedogs and cats and small house

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animals, but if you have loved alarge animal, a horse, an
elephant. I know some peoplethat are zoological researchers
and work with big animals atconservation places like zoos
and things. So even if it is avery large animal that you feel
like, well, I don't know how theenergy of this animal is going
to fit in my house at all, theystill can spend time with you,

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wherever you are, saying helloand supporting you, so just
throwing that in there,and all you really need to do is
say Hi and thank you, whetheryou feel something strong or
subtle. So I hope thisconversation has brought you a
little comfort, maybe even asoftening in your body or your
emotions, or a flicker ofrecognition of some ways that

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your fur babies might becommunicating with you from the
other side. You might have evenhad a moment where you thought
that sounds like somethingthat's happening to me or that
has happened to me, and the loveyou shared with your pet didn't
disappear when their physicalbody did. The bond doesn't
break, the relationship doesn'tend. From everything I've

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witnessed as a medium andeverything I felt in my own life
and in my own experience as asensitive animals continue
loving us with just as muchpurity and steadiness that they
did in their lives, and it istruly extraordinary. They don't
hold guilt, they don't judge ourdecisions. They don't hold hard
feelings for the way they passor the timing of their passing.

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They don't replay the finalmoments in the way we often do.
And that beloved dog that I wastalking about, I did have to
make some choices at the end ofher life, and for my end of
those choices and what I had toexperience with her transition.
I hated it, guys, it was Ididn't love it, and it was at a
loving bet, and it was doneproperly. But if you've ever had

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that experience, you know thatthose mental images and those
really tough emotions can kindof linger with us as human
beings and stay with us. Restassured, they do not stay with
your pet and they don't replaythose and they often express
that the part that we saw wasnot their experience. It was the
reaction of their physical body,but not the way that their soul

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felt, not the way they felt, andnot exactly what they
experienced. So I hope that canbring some comfort to you as
well, and they don't carry toughemotions with them. They carry
the essence of their time withus, the joy, the routines, the
love, the relationship, and theystay connected to us. So this
episode made you think ofsomeone who's grieving a pet or

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who could use some reassurance.
Please feel free to share itwith them. You never know who
might need this today, and whothis might really give some
upliftment or comfort to. Andthe animals we love are souls in
a human body, in an I mean,sorry, not an unhuman body, an
animal body. They're littlesouls in an animal body. And
their love, their soul continueson, just like anyone that we

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have loved that is on the spiritside. I absolutely love hearing
your stories. So if you have hadan experience with a pet in the
spirit world or a sign thatmeant something to you from a
pet in the spirit world, I wouldlove if you messaged me. I do
read all the emails. You caneither email joy at joyful
medium.com or admin at joyfulmedium.com and I read every
note. I read the stories, andthey often become threads of

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connection for the community, orsometimes like this episode, so
many of you requested it that itinspired me to create another
pets in heaven. Episode. Soplease know that you and your
energy are as big a part of whatgoes into this podcast as
anything else, all of the otheringredients and I absolutely
love hearing from you, so thankyou for spending this time with

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me. Please know that I amsending you so much love around
whatever furry loved ones youmight have on your heart today,
and I hope that you will takegentle care of yourself and
remember that love never dies,whether it's a person or a pet,
and neither does your bond thatyou build with any member of
your family, human or furry,vague hugs. Lots of love. Bye

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for now, from inside, Spiritspeaking, you.