How pets feel the death of their owners. 5 amazing stories

Former Cambridge lecturer, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, PhD and biologist has spent more than 30 years gathering evidence regarding animals that seem to use intuition or telepathy to know when the people they love are in grave, sometimes mortal danger.

This is not a subject amenable to experimental investigation. The evidence may be random events rather than laboratory tests, as it is apparently impossible to stage dangerous events, writes MailOnline.

The scientist says his archive now includes more than 100 accounts of dogs that seem to react to the injury or death of their humans at a distance, and about half as many cases involving cats.

"The existence of so many independent reports convinces me that this is a real phenomenon, although experiments cannot be conducted. Further research is needed by collecting more clearly documented stories," says Rupert.

According to the scientist's theory, the bond between man and animal is really there, and it imperceptibly connects them together even thousands of kilometers away. And death and danger break that bond.

To take a simple analogy: two people are connected by a stretched rubber band, and one of them shakes it or lets it go, the other feels the difference. Even if they don't know exactly what's happening to the other person involved, they can sense that something is up.

"I have first-hand experience of this. In the late 1990s, when I was working on animal telepathy research, my wife and I looked after a neighbor's Labrador, named Ruggles, while the family was on vacation," Sheldrake says.

Ruggles settled in well and spent most of his time in the scientist's family room. But one morning at 11:30 a.m., after returning from a walk, he wouldn't come into the house. All entreaties failed. He remained at the front door until he was taken out for a walk at 3:00 pm. His behavior was so striking and unusual that Rupert thought that the neighbors must have decided to come home before the vacation. And expected a phone call from them. The phone did indeed ring that day, but to report that the Ruggles' owners' son had fallen off a chairlift, broken his leg and been taken by helicopter to hospital. The accident happened at 11am UK time.

"Interestingly, when Ruggles returned from his afternoon walk, he was limping. He jumped into a pond and landed on broken glass, his paw was bleeding and his tendon was torn. He had to spend the night at the vet's office. So he and Timothy ended up in the hospital at the same time with bandaged legs," he concludes with a story from his own experience.

As the scientist began to research this topic in more detail, he realized that his experience was far from unique. Not only can our pets sense when we are in danger or perhaps even dead, but sometimes we can also sense their suffering from afar - and the same connection exists between closely related animals. Below are a few stories from Dr. Rupert's archives.

Terrier felt his son's death in the Falklands

Iris, mother of a young sailor in Oxford, said: "My son was very close to our West Highland Terrier. He joined the Royal Navy in 1978 and, being ashore for most of his time until 1982, was regularly home for weekends. He would come to us by train, and we gradually realized that the dog would start getting anxious about 20-30 minutes before our son walked through the door. So as soon as he started running back and forth to the front door, I would start making his lunch so that when he came in (always hungry), his food would be ready.

In April 1982, his ship was called to the Falkland Islands. Early in the evening, May 25, the dog jumped on my knee, he was shivering and whimpering. When my husband came in, I said: "I don't know what's wrong with her, she's been like this for over half an hour. She won't come down off my knee."

We found out later that the ship had been sunk - we knew it was our son's ship, although the name wasn't made public until the next day. Our son was one of the casualties. And our little dog ran away and died a few months later."

German Shepherd dog alerted to the fire

The dog's owner Walter Berry was repairing a car in his garage in Northern Ireland when he spilled gasoline on himself and then accidentally set it on fire with a welding tool.

His wife Joan was 200 meters away with their German Shepherd, Chrissy, on the other side of two other garages and a yard. "It was like Chrissy went crazy and started making noises she had never made before," Joan recalls.

Realizing something was wrong, she let the dog out, and the dog rushed straight to Walter. Joan followed him and arrived in time to put out the fire and save her husband's life.

The cat sensed that her son had been in an accident

One day when Jean Parker came home from work, she was surprised to see their cat Timmy meowing pitifully.

"Timmy used to sleep all day on my son's bed. Seeing him like that, I thought he was in physical pain. There was no way he could be soothed," she recounted. But that evening, she received news that her son had been involved in a road accident and was in intensive care at a hospital about 60 kilometers from the family home.

"My son was seven weeks in a coma. The cat wouldn't come into his bedroom. But one night Timmy ran right into my son's room, jumped on the bed and started purring with pleasure. That was the day my son came out of his coma and started coming back to life," Jean concluded the story.

The puppy sensed his mom's death from 9,000 kilometers away

"I have a sheepdog named Issa," wrote Max, a doctor from Chateauneuf-le-Rouge in the south of France, "when she was three months old, we moved to France from the island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean, more than 9,000 kilometers away. There I left her mother, ten-year-old Zoubida."

One night Issa was sleeping in the room of the master's son. At about three in the morning, she came to his door: whimpering, as if she was crying and agitated. The dog refused to go outside. Later that morning, at about 9:00, Max got a call from his son-in-law in Reunion. The security guard at their house had found Zubida dead. She'd been poisoned.

The cat who felt the girl's bicycle accident

This story happened to Andrea from Bempflingen, Germany: "I was sitting outside on the veranda and our Persian cat Klaerchen was lying next to me, purring comfortably. My 11-year-old daughter had gone for a bike ride with a friend. Everything seemed wonderful and harmonious, but suddenly Klaerchen jumped up and made a sound we had never heard before and instantly ran into the living room. The cat sat down in front of the shelves where the phone was. Soon I received the news that my daughter had been in a bicycle accident and was taken to the hospital."

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