Connecting with Cookie was an absolute joy. The evidence she shares is astounding.
I saw Cookies picture last evening but didn’t tune in right away. In the middle of the night, guess who appears? Cookie! She wants to let me know there is something going on with her ears. They are itchy and she wants to scratch them. Her owner, Toni, let me know Cookie had a lot of ear infections over her lifetime. It is instantly clear who is here to speak!
Cookie shares first visual indications followed by physical sensations with me as a means of identifying the health condition that lead to her passing. A stroke would not be something I would have anticipated. Her clues made perfect sense in retrospect.
Now for a series of intriguing truths!
Cookie let me know she was very fond of her pink collar. She draws my attention toward the collar so much that it looms in my vision as exceptionally large. haha She says she wore it with pride because she was proud of being female and felt the pink was like a beacon of this truth. I’d say she was showing it off.
Cookie lay in front of a couch with a tennis sized ball in front of her. She accidentally knocked it under the couch but had no interest in making the least effort to retrieve it. This was not a favourite toy. Once this truth was acknowledged she sat up, filled with energy, happy, excited showing me something flat in her mouth. I thought it was a pancake (that flat) but later realized it was a Frisbee! This was her favourite toy! Toni says she loved to play with her frisbee.
Cookie showed herself going for walks along the water. These walks, (at the beach it turns out) were a haven of scents. She loved it. Head down, sniffing everything. Cookie showed herself off leash but turns out that was only in her dreams (haha). She was not a dog that was given free rein. She hints that she wanted to chase the birds. Toni says she loved birds.
Next, Cookie shows herself curling up on a favourite pink blanket next to another dog, a shepherd. This shepherd, Dutchess, is the pet of Toni’s son, Andrew. Cookie wants to show Toni that she shares her beloved blanket with Dutchess, and Dutchess shares her braided rawhide treat with Cookie. Weird, right? Yet, Toni says Dutchess was given all kinds of treats, and always shared them with other dogs. Now that is unusual, I’d say! The beloved pink blanket was a blanket Cookie was buried in. Cookie wants Toni to know how much she still loves that blanket. She says it smells like home.
When I ask Cookie what she might like to say, Cookie tells me this. In spirit, there is no such thing as time. This means that all kinds of pets connected to the family will join together in spirit without concern for which one arrived first, next, or last. There is no time. They simply are.
When I inquire about these ‘other’ pets, Cookie shows herself looking up at a parakeet in a bird cage with a rounded top. Turns out, when Toni was younger, she had a parakeet with this exact kind of cage! I kid you not! Cookie shares that she and the bird have extensive intellectual conversations with each other. The bird is an excellent listener and is her confidant.
Next, Cookie shows a second pet she hangs around with. This pet appears off to one side, at a little distance… meaning this pet is not one within the immediate family. Cookie explains this is Andrew’s cousin’s pet and it is a snake! Guess what?! Toni’s nephew had a great love of snakes as a young boy and caught all kinds of snakes in the neighbourhood. When he was older, the cousin had two pet snakes!
We can’t make these things up, right? The evidence is simply too obscure to pull out of a hat.
Thank you, Toni, for the opportunity to meet the spirit of your beloved dog Cookie and thank you Cookie for sharing all that you have to indicate you are still close at hand.
With love,
Catherine ~