I am often asked by clients how they will know if their animal companion is coming back to them through reincarnation, or if in fact their animal companion is a reincarnation of a previous one. I want to share with you that very frequently, actually more often than not, our animal companions do spend numerous lifetimes with us, and often even ‘travel’ with us through a number of our lifetimes. This is why they are so often experts at our life’s purpose and soul’s divine mission, whether we acknowledge it or not. Sometimes they even know us better than we know ourselves.
While exploring this in sessions with clients over the years and talking to thousands of animals, I have found an interesting scenario. In cases where our animal companions do not reincarnate, for whatever reason, there is often a part of them that comes through in our new animal companions. In a way it’s like a piece of their soul is here with us while they reside on another plane.
Take my new puppy Carly for example. Many of you know that my beloved Golden Retriever Jiggs made his transition in September 2007 at 14 ½ . He made it clear to me then that it wasn’t his intention to return to me in the near future, if at all, as he had important things to take care of from the spirit realm, mainly guiding me and influencing the direction of my teaching, writing and life. Being very much like me, and not one to want to miss out on things, I truly see pieces of him in Carly. I know for a fact that Carly is not a full embodiment of Jiggs but I find some of the idiosyncrasies to be uncanny. Right off the bat, Carly started trying to lick my eyelashes, not exactly a regular dog-like behavior, but one that Jiggs did as a young puppy. Next, she insisted on coming into the bathroom right after I got out of the shower to lick the water droplets off my ankles and shins. This is one of her favorite activities and one that gets her fluffy white tail wagging so hard that you’d think it was the high light of her day. I don’t really know if this is standard dog behavior, but I’d venture a guess that it’s not, and again it was one of Jiggs’ favorites in his younger years. Another of her perhaps unusual traits, and one that mimicked Jiggs again, was her absolute ease at being left alone in the house, right from the first day she arrived. I had to pop out for some veggies, and decided that after her long car trip up here from Scottsdale, and being left by her lifetime caregivers, and separated from her doggie friends, that taking her out again might have been too much for her, so I opted to leave her alone in an ex pen while I made the trip. It did not phase her a bit that I left! .Jiggs shared this ease at being left alone with her, and I know for sure that this is not normal puppy behavior.
I had quite a few conversations with Jiggs about this, just to double check things as they sure were suspect, and it seems that when he sent Carly to me, he sent a puppy with many of his familiar traits. He went on to say that she is a part of his soul group and that there is a very deep connection between the two but they are not one in the same soul. So in this new little girl, I have some very sweet memories of my old boy, and he has this new little body to inhabit from time to time to connect with me on the physical realm. Now I know why I keep calling her Jiggs!
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