August 8th 2006 2:52 pm
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A very odd thing has happened RE: Bob that I wish to share with any who are wondering if pets communicate from beyond. Well, this is what happened yesterday.

But first let me backtrack a bit...

Bob passed away about 15 months ago. Prior to that he had been on Dogster about one year. During those 12 months he got maybe six requests to be a pup pal. (The rest of the pals noted on his site are the co-links from our other dog Rosie.) Right after he passed, he got a couple of requests.

After that, about a year went by. Rosie got quite a few requetss but Bob didn't get any. I was thinking just about six weeks ago, that Bob obviously wasn't getting many requests and that was probably how it was going to be. My mom was sick and I was thinking about him a lot. I was wishing he would communicate somehow. A day or two later, there was an email request for a pup pal. I opened it, assuming it was for Rosie, but it was for Bob. It did enter my head I had made a request for communication, but was realistic that this was all just a nice coincidence.

I clicked on the pup photo and it was SASSY, and she took my breath away. It was as if I was looking at Bob, Sassy looked identical, same facial expression, markings and coloring. I wrote to Saasy's family about this coincidence and how it really moved me

I never heard back from Sassy's family. Then yesterdy morning, on my daughter' s 12 th birdthday, I was looking at the little black cocker spaniel statuary I have outisde my bedroom patio. It looks so much like Bob and I thought long and hard about how much I missed him. Later that afternoon, about six weeks afteer that unanswered mail to Sassy, Sassy sent a reply. In it, her family noted that they didn't realize they had mail. Certainly a concidence it was sent on my daughter's birthday, but again I just shrugged it off.

That email was sent at 1:14 p.m. By 3 p.m. I had received TEN addiitonal requests for Bob to be a pup pal. None for Rosie, all for Bob. That totalled 11 emails for Bob in one hour and 45 minutes. After the first 4 emails, I thought someone must be playing a joke. I looked to see if the dogs were related or if they all lived in the same area. All were from different areas, although there was one duplication, which lowered it to 10 emails for Bob on my daughter's birthday. I get a lot of emails but after that 4th email, evey time the sound went off signaling a new email, I literally was scared to open the mail applciation. It was always a new request for Bob to be a pup pal. One of them was 4 minutes apart, both from totally different people.

So, here we are at the present:
Six requests stretched out during the year Bob was alive, one-two requests right after he passed, one request in the year following, and TEN requests yesterday on my the day of my daughter's birthday. I don't know anyone on this site, nor did I mention anything about Dogster or my daughter's birthday to anyone...

YOU TELL ME.