Some more anecdotal evidence regarding rainbow children and angels.
Apparently rainbow children have a certain awareness regarding animals. When I was pregnant, my first child, my Baby Boy, my cat was ultra affectionate with me. He would purr and rub his cheeks all over my belly. The bigger I got, the louder he purred and the longer he lingered. I remembered the Siamese cat scene in Lady and the Tramp, the movie, "The Cat's Eye" based on a Stephen King story, and stories about how cats and children are contraindicated.
My baby first physically responded to my cat when she was 2 weeks old. She stretched out on my bed, and the cat lying next to her jumped in surprise at being grabbed by a little claw. He noticed her and began licking her head. My baby cooed and he purred.
We had a pregnant female cat as well who gave birth the day I went back to work from maternity leave. We kept 2 of her kittens. So when my baby was 4 months old she had a total of 4 cats and 3 dogs, 2 black labs and a brittany spaniel. All of them loved my child.
The cats would nap under and in her crib, on her changing table, in her laundry basket. When she slept they would collectively sit at her door and wail. One night I laid her down at around 8 and at 10 she was still babbling. I heard her through the intercom, and thought, "This is weird, she is talking way too much to be alone." I opened her door and saw my big black and white cat sitting in her crib, facing her. She had her hands in the air, twirling in all kinds of story telling gestures, babbling away. I grabbed the cat and laid her back down.
I am reminded now of even another incident with the brittany spaniel. He was a high strung dog with a hyperthyroid condition. He was my mother-in-law's dog, who adored her. He lived around her. He was so protective of her he has attacked my little nephew when he tried to jump on her. My mother in law had considered having him put down when that happened. i objected because even though the picture of the dog's jaw around my nephew's head bothered me, the dog left no marks, which told me the dog was in control and was just establishing a boundary.
So this dog, who never left the heels of my mother-in-law unless she was kicking him back into the house whenever she left. attacked her one day. My mother in law had my baby on her bed, and was tickling and kissing her. At one point she grabbed my baby's leg and started nibbling on her inner thigh with her gummed teeth. The dog freaked and growled and barked at her and nipped at her wrist. She was shocked at the dog's sudden and severe shift in loyalties.
These stories reminded me of another story with my own puppidog - I hope you don't mind my sharing! I had complex partial seizures following a head injury for about seven years. One evening, while I was with my mother and our dog, and I was having seizures. For one of them, and I was experiencing the aura (a brief period before the seizure), mom said that Puppy perked up and became very focused on me. He came over to the futon (where I was sitting) very determinedly, nudged some pillows and the coffee table over to get to me. Then he jumped on the futon and stood over me, so his legs were on either side of mine. He stood there druing the whole seizure, then when it was over and I was really weak, he let me lay my head on him until I had more strength. He licked my face and jumped off the futon.
All of these things were very out of character for him, and they were precious.
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Jasper is a red tick hound mix...mostly red tick that we got afrom the animal shelter. Because of the crying we had to get his brother too, his name is Dakota. They quickly out grew our little military housing yard and Dakota kept getting out of the yard. SO we ended up getting hid of them to diffrent families with bigger yards and fences. One day Dakota found us in town and jumped into the car. The most amazing story is with Jasper which I will tell before I get distracted again.
One day the family left the house for an overnight else where. The nieghbors heard extreme barking coming from Jasper who is not big on barking but has the classic hound dog wail... very loud and disturbing. It got so bad they called the police told them of the absent people and the barking and they came immediately. Jasper had connered they theif in fear and did not back off till help came. The best part is we only trained him to sit to be petted and was still new to the other family.
Dogs (and animals in general) are amazing and the connections/ knowing they have of the people spirit is confounding.
To think kids can communicate long before we are aware of it is also amazing. We have to look for suttle ques that we are often to busy to notice. My work friend says her twin girls have been 'chatting' and responding appropriately to each other since they were wobble heads. Many people are crazy enought to have their kids more or less potty trained by six weeks...that to me is just crazy...but you just have to know their expressions and ques.
ANyway another fabulous blog. I am glad you are still here.
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We got my puppy (who's not really a puppy anymore...) about a month or so after my baby sister was born (10 1/2 years ago). They bonded so quickly; the puppy would sleep in the carseat with my sister. They were the most adorable pair.
Now, though, my puppy shows loyalty first to my mom, then to me, and lastly to my two little sisters. Still, she'll place herself between one of us and a stranger, even if we acknowledge the stranger is no threat. She's pretty good at comforting us when something's wrong too; she'll curl up next to us and nudge us until we start petting her.
~C
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When my little sister was a baby, she liked to grab onto the tail of our cat. I had always assumed she just liked to grab anything that moved, but maybe it was more that she really wanted to pet the cat. However, the cat was less than wild about this.
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Apparently rainbow children have a certain awareness regarding animals.
It makes me sad that even in this day and age, people are still this superstitious.
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I didn't mean to make you sad. :{
Although I did predict your suspicion would pop up if I started talking about this. Just ask dragonwolf.
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I did predict your suspicion...
Can you tell me next week's lottery numbers?
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I am not psychic, I just pay attention.
"Consistency is not a human trait" - Maude, from Harold and Maude
told me an interesting story. Her husband passed away a year ago. It was unexpected, he was in his early 50's and healthy, apparently. He died of a rare form of sarcoma that went into his bones, and therefore his blood.
She said that she had to put her dog down, a Rottweiler, about 6 months before they knew her husband was sick. She had developed sarcoma that went into her bones and blood.
Her vet told her later, when he found out about her husband's death, that he has seen this before, and that he believes that animals know what is going on and take on the sickness of their owner in an attempt to take it away from the owner.
i also heard a story on the news that a cat at a nursing home would climb into bed with a person 3 days before they died, and would stay with that person until they passed. people in the home were scared of the cat, but when it did come to them, they were grateful for his company.
"Consistency is not a human trait" - Maude, from Harold and Maude
My family brought home a new puppy and my baby sister within weeks of each other. When my sister was a toddler if my brother (6 years older than her) and I (4 years older than her) would fight this dog would take my sister by the arm to pull her out of the middle of it (because she was always in the middle of it), and then bark at my brother and I until Mom said it was ok.
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