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multiplicity_archives2005-03-21 07:50 am
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Has anyone else here had strange experiences with pets?
We spent last weekend with our SO. Rivvi was fronted most of the time, but at one point, Kami was fronted. When Kami went downstairs, the family's new dog started barking and growling at him for no reason. The dog didn't have any problem with Rivvi, in fact, dogs love her, even though she's not a dog person at all. So Kami went out with someone and they got food. They were only gone for about twenty minutes. When they got back, Rivvi took over the front again before they went inside, and there weren't anymore problems with the dog. (Kami's reaction to the situation was funny. He was amused and in disbelief, thinking soemthing like, "Can you believe that dog is daring to bark at me? He must not know I'm a god." Then he started to tell the dog to stop barking in this big, commanding voice... Kami is always so amusing. :) It sure would be boring around here without him!)
Our SO has a cat who loves her and follows her around, meowing for attention. But when someone else started fronting a lot, she was scared of him. There didn't seem to be any reason for it. She never seemed to care much about anyone else fronting, even people who hate cats. She's okay with him now, I think, but for a while she was scared of him and only him.
Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this? Are there any known reasons for it? Animals are supposed to be sensitive to things going on in the human brain. For example, some dogs can be trained to tell when its owner is going to have a seizure before even the owner knows and protect him or her through it. I think it might be somehow related to that. That they can just sense something is off and it freaks them out.
We spent last weekend with our SO. Rivvi was fronted most of the time, but at one point, Kami was fronted. When Kami went downstairs, the family's new dog started barking and growling at him for no reason. The dog didn't have any problem with Rivvi, in fact, dogs love her, even though she's not a dog person at all. So Kami went out with someone and they got food. They were only gone for about twenty minutes. When they got back, Rivvi took over the front again before they went inside, and there weren't anymore problems with the dog. (Kami's reaction to the situation was funny. He was amused and in disbelief, thinking soemthing like, "Can you believe that dog is daring to bark at me? He must not know I'm a god." Then he started to tell the dog to stop barking in this big, commanding voice... Kami is always so amusing. :) It sure would be boring around here without him!)
Our SO has a cat who loves her and follows her around, meowing for attention. But when someone else started fronting a lot, she was scared of him. There didn't seem to be any reason for it. She never seemed to care much about anyone else fronting, even people who hate cats. She's okay with him now, I think, but for a while she was scared of him and only him.
Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this? Are there any known reasons for it? Animals are supposed to be sensitive to things going on in the human brain. For example, some dogs can be trained to tell when its owner is going to have a seizure before even the owner knows and protect him or her through it. I think it might be somehow related to that. That they can just sense something is off and it freaks them out.
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But it may be more straightforward. Animals are necessarily good at picking up the minutiae of behaviour and mood. Cats are attracted to people who dislike them, dogs don't tend to like it.
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence about people being able to exchange psychic messages with animals, calm them down etc. I'm sceptical about this myself.