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I believe there are things the traditional five senses can't explain.
I also believe that some people are, for whatever reason, more attuned to sense those things than other people.
I'm one of the insensitives... With the exception of exactly one experience, which could have been a bad case of the willies as easily as some paranormal expression...
I do believe that animals are much more sensitive to these sorts of things than most humans. The description of rats running inland en masse before the 2004 tsunami struck shore has stuck with me since I first read it. We've got six cats and two dogs, and I trust their instincts far more than I trust mine. A small example - our old deck was about 15 feet above ground, and at one point the dogs began avoiding part of it for no apparent reason. One day I was trying to catch a little lizard before the dogs saw him, and he scuttled over to that side of the deck, and Emily grabbed my arm in her mouth and pulled me away. She didn't break skin, but it wasn't comfortable... I remember somehow clearly understanding that she was begging me to STOP WALKING for god's sake; we had the deck looked at and turned out the supports had rotted through. Another time our old housekeeper brought one of her neices to help (which was fine in theory) - we ask guests to take their shoes off at the door, and I came downstairs to find that one of the cats had marked one of the niece's shoes. Only one shoe. Something they had never, ever, ever done before. I'm horrified, and I pick that shoe up, and out falls one of our spare house keys - which we had stupidly been keeping in the very-obvious odds and ends kitchen drawer. I hate to think what might have happened had she walked away with it unbeknown to us!
If my furbabies are untroubled then I know I've got nothing to worry about. I know they love us, and I trust that they'll warn us of things we can't sense.
I also believe that some people are, for whatever reason, more attuned to sense those things than other people.
I'm one of the insensitives... With the exception of exactly one experience, which could have been a bad case of the willies as easily as some paranormal expression...
I do believe that animals are much more sensitive to these sorts of things than most humans. The description of rats running inland en masse before the 2004 tsunami struck shore has stuck with me since I first read it. We've got six cats and two dogs, and I trust their instincts far more than I trust mine. A small example - our old deck was about 15 feet above ground, and at one point the dogs began avoiding part of it for no apparent reason. One day I was trying to catch a little lizard before the dogs saw him, and he scuttled over to that side of the deck, and Emily grabbed my arm in her mouth and pulled me away. She didn't break skin, but it wasn't comfortable... I remember somehow clearly understanding that she was begging me to STOP WALKING for god's sake; we had the deck looked at and turned out the supports had rotted through. Another time our old housekeeper brought one of her neices to help (which was fine in theory) - we ask guests to take their shoes off at the door, and I came downstairs to find that one of the cats had marked one of the niece's shoes. Only one shoe. Something they had never, ever, ever done before. I'm horrified, and I pick that shoe up, and out falls one of our spare house keys - which we had stupidly been keeping in the very-obvious odds and ends kitchen drawer. I hate to think what might have happened had she walked away with it unbeknown to us!
If my furbabies are untroubled then I know I've got nothing to worry about. I know they love us, and I trust that they'll warn us of things we can't sense.
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