Have you been waiting for your deceased pet to visit you from the afterlife but cannot understand why they haven’t connected with you yet? It isn’t because your pet doesn’t love you or miss you.
Some animals struggle to communicate with loved ones, especially recently deceased pets. It can take time for them to adjust and process past trauma or grief. But we may miss their messages if we are experiencing grief or sadness, find it hard to stay present, lack grounding, and doubt, or feel afraid of the afterlife.
1. Your Pet Recently Passed Away
Your deceased pet may not be able to connect with you after their transition if they were weak or barely unconscious in their final moments of life. It could take them weeks, months, or even years to fully recharge their energy. So don’t despair, be patient, but if you can’t wait any longer book a session with a pet medium.
2. They Are Still Adjusting To The Afterlife
Adjusting to the Spirit Realm takes time which is why our pets may not immediately visit us after their transition. Young souls need to re-learn how to move around in spirit form and practice manifesting themselves in the physical world. Whereas animals that have reincarnated many times will almost immediately be able to connect with their living pet parents.
3. Your Pet Needs Time To Process Their Trauma
Did your beloved pet experience any trauma in their lives? If so, they may need time to process and heal from these past traumatic events. Every animal works through their baggage at their own speed, so there isn’t a specific timeline for them to work towards. Some pets may only need a couple of weeks, while others may need a lot longer.
4. It Is Not The Right Time For Them
Once your pet moves into the afterlife, they create their ideal version of heaven, often called the rainbow ridge. But our pets also use their time to reconnect with their human and animal family as well as their friends on the other side. This is another reason why our deceased pets can take time to reconnect with us.
5. You Aren’t Fully Open To The Experience
Many pet parents want to connect with their deceased pet but may be worried about opening up to spirit communication. But we shouldn’t let our fear of the unknown keep us from communicating with our beautiful furry angels. Our pets haven’t changed! They are still the same old loving beings you knew before their transition. The only difference is that they are no longer limited to a physical body.
6. You Don’t See Their Signs From The Afterlife
Do you recognize and acknowledge the afterlife signs from your animal companions? Pet parents often miss or unintentionally ignore signs from the pets in spirit. This is because they don’t know how pets in heaven can communicate with us. Afterlife communication can include dream visitations, animal and insect encounters, flickering of lights, and sensing your animals watching you, just to name a few.
Read my blog post for a full list of “25 common signs from pets in the afterlife”.
7. Your Grief Is Blocking Your Communication
When grieving the loss of a pet, it can feel difficult to spiritually connect to our animals. Grief keeps us in a low vibration and affects our physical, emotional, and mental well-being. But to connect with our deceased pets, we need to quieten the mind, feel love in our hearts, and sense our connection to them through our physical body.
8. Your Analytical Mind Is Getting In The Way
Do you doubt the existence of an afterlife or find it difficult to believe that deceased pets can visit or communicate with us? If so, I encourage you to put your beliefs to one side and try a little experiment. Ask your pets to send you specific signs, such as a swarm of butterflies, coins with their birth year, or any other signs your mind cannot deny. You don’t want your mind to get in the way and stop you from reconnecting with your beloved pets. Keep an open mind and send your animals love throughout the process.
9. You Find It Hard To Stay Present
You can communicate with your deceased pet as long as you stay firmly rooted in the present moment. If your thoughts fluctuate between the past and the future, it will be hard for them to get messages through to you. Our pets communicate telepathically, mind-to-mind communication. But to hear their messages, you need to quieten the mind and be fully present in the now.
10. You Aren’t Spiritually Open To It Yet
Connecting with loved ones in spirit requires us to raise our energy to meet the Spirit Realm. Most people struggle to do this because they are so caught up with their earthly experiences. They aren’t focused on their spiritual development and don’t engage in practices such as meditation to raising their state of consciousness.
11. You Need To Develop Your Intuition
Have you ever had a gut feeling about a person or animal? If you answered yes, then you are aware of your intuitive abilities. Otherwise, you simply need to develop this ability and learn to send and receive messages from your pets in the afterlife. A little effort goes a long way to reconnecting with your furry companions.
But if you want to get pet visitation dreams, try using my 6-Step Process To Communicate With Your Deceased Pet Through Dreams. Or if you want just want your pets to visit you and let them know you miss them, have read 12 Ways to Connect with your Deceased Pets.
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I had to help my doggy passed last night. It was horrible and heartbreaking. I didn’t want the ashes or a paw print at that time last night. I already talked to the vet this morning and asked if I could still get a paw print if it wasn’t too late. She called me a couple hours later and saying they are able to send me a paw print to the vet. I went to go for a walk and my dog pretty direct me another direction I said I want to see a sign for you pretty can you give me a sign, but so I went around the corner to a little nature spot and there was paw prints in the dirt. 😭 ❤️ . I believe they were given to me from my pretty baby mama in heaven as a sign connected me because I’m getting her paw prints back from her it still doesn’t help missing her it just happened last night I asked her to give me some all the time I need her I miss her I love her so much.
Hi Tamera
I am sorry to hear about your beloved Pretty passing away, I know how much you must be missing her! Thank you for sharing such a divine experience, I too believe the paw prints were her way of letting you know she was with you and that her paw prints were on the way. Thank you for sharing with us all, and opening other people’s hearts and minds with your experience.
Sending you love and healing. 🙂
Sandra
I had to put my 15 year old maltese to sleep 2 days ago. I can not imagine living in a world where he is no longer alive.
The pain i feel, the grief… i can’t explain it. I would trade the world just to see him again. It hurts so much, i wish he could send me some signs, or if he could appear in my dream just to knoe that he is waiting for me somewhere out there.. it hurst to breathe…
Hi Dushica
I am sorry to hear about your Maltese passing away. There are no words that can really explain what it feels like. But losing our little angels stirs up a lot of emotions, pain, grief, loneliness, and sadness. Trust that your beloved dog will visit you as soon as he can, be patient, and allow yourself to heal and process your emotions. But if you want to try connecting with him through your dreams, have a read of my blog post called ‘6 Simple Steps to communicate with deceased Pets in Dreams’. Try it for 21 consecutive days and see how you get on.
But above all, allow yourself to grieve the loss and be compassionate and patient with yourself. In case you are interested, I also wrote another blog post called ’25 self care tips while grieving the loss of a pet’. Many of my clients have found these tips helpful during their grieving process. All we can do is take it one day at a time.
Sending love and healing your way.
Sandra
I lost my boy Donner two weeks ago. He was 4.5. We adopted him from a foster five months after we lost our 13 year-old Fiona. We only had Donner for three months. We had no idea that he had splenic cancer that had already metastasized to his lungs until his spleen tumors started bleeding, putting him in danger. I have not received messages from him yet like I clearly did with Fiona and I’m worried he wasn’t connected enough to us, that his soul is somehow “lost”. Everyone who got to know Donner while he was here, including his former owner, is convinced from video evidence, of actually being around him, that he knew we loved him. I am bereft and also lost
Hello Marianne
Please know that Donner is safe and doing well. It can just take some time for them to reach out to us. So please be patient and trust that he will reconnect with you when the time is right. But if you want to try connecting with him right away, read my blog post called 6 Simple Steps to Communicate with Deceased Pets in Dreams. Try it for 21 consecutive days and keep a journal by your bedside so you can write down the details of the dreams. If you decide to try this technique, do let me know how you get on.
Sending you love and healing.
Warm regards
Sandra
A few days ago I had to put my beloved 11 year old collie down. We are assuming he had a stroke and then a grand maul seizure that seemed like it lasted forever. When he kinda came out of it, he was very scared and confused and we rushed him to the ER vet. He seem to be having severe anxiety and not knowing what was going on, and he was terrified. The vet sedated him so we could determine what happened. instead of doing a lot of tests that would create more anxiety. They observed him for a few hours as I sat with him, they came to the conclusion that being a senior he would not be able to recover from the stroke, and the best thing to do would be to put him down.. it broke my heart having to do this, but I knew it was in his best interest as I did not want him to suffer anymore. I laid with him and cuddled him for while and through the process of being euthanised. My heart is so broken, I hope he knows how much I loved him because I know how much he loved us.
Hi Catherine,
I am so sorry to hear about Collie passing away and the heartbreak that you have been experiencing since his passing. Yet, what a divine experience to cross over into the arms of your favorite person in the entire world. The love and compassion you showed him at the end is a reflection of how much you loved him, and he knows that. You comforted him, loved him, honored the experience, and let him know you were there for him no matter what. That despite your desire for him to stay and the heartbreak, you did what was right for him. You loved, protected, and made him feel safe.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us all.
Sending you love and healing, in these difficult times.
Sandra 🙂
I feel like I failed her. I didn’t get her to the vet soon enough and she wasn’t strong enough to overcome her sickness. That I didnt.know wjat she needed on her last day and she suffered until I told her it was ok for her to go to sleep. The minute i said those words, she took a gasp for air and was gone. What happened next was horrible and I felt so bad for her and wished her passing had been easier.
Hi Diana
I am sorry to hear about your animal passing away. And you are not alone, we all feel like that when our animals pass away. We second guess ourselves blame ourselves and feel guilty for not having realised, or done enough. So, it is important to remember how much you loved her, and that your words helped cross over.
Sending you love and healing
Sandra
Thank you for your article. I’ve sadly lost 4 cats in the last 4 years. 3 have visited me, but one has not. It’s been two years since I lost her. We were very close and she was my first ever cat. I’ve asked her to visit many times, but she never does. She wasn’t with her first family for very long before she got passed to a hoarder. I know in my heart she would want to be with me and can’t understand it.
Hi Dani
I am sorry to hear about all your losses, I can’t imagine what that must feel like.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. It is wonderful that you have felt your other 3 cats around and I can sense how much you want your first cat to come through. You know that you have a deep connection with her and that she would want to be with you. Please give her some more time and allow her to come when she is ready. Trust in that knowing that she will come to you and open your heart to that experience. Tell her that you would like to feel her around, that you miss her but let go of the expectation. Try bonding with her on a soul level, so that even though you may not see or hear her you can feel that bond that connects you both, even though she is in the afterlife. That love is the energy that links both worlds.
Thank you for sharing.
Sending you lots of love and healing
Sandra
Thank you so much for your article. I have been trying to watch for signs. My Violet was 8 yr old Dachshund who is the daughter of the mommy and daddy that we’re also my pets that I had to put down within 20 days of each other a little over a year ago. That was very very hard. This is on another level because she was special needs vet said if there was a term for her condition, it would be autism in a dog. When she was born, she had was called swimmer legs, where she drug her legs behind her, and she and I worked very hard until she was able to walk and run. But I was definitely her person and she was mine when I tell you that we were never separated. We were actually never separated, I work from home and she always had to lay laundry hamper stacked with pillows in it so she could be close to me. Things were fine until we moved in with my 80-year-old mother who decided to give them treats all the time and feed them people food , but people food that people shouldn’t even have like cheesecake, subs, and chicken legs. Just everything that people eat she would feed to the dogs literally making them when she called his Smorgasburg every night. I is constantly sending her articles about how detrimental it could be two dogs to eat people food all the time and she never ever listen to me. Next thing you know my violet came down with diabetes, and I have a fear of needles. So there I was my whole life’s been turned upside down to take care of her, which I did, but I had a really hard time with her cooperating with her shots, especially feeling my anxiety because of my fear. This past Saturday we were driving down the road as usual, and I looked at her and it was like she was looking thru me and she was limp . I rushed her to the ER vet and they kept her overnight and said that she had pancreatitis Coupled with her diabetes, her prognosis was not good. I went and visited with her on Friday night and they could not get her to urinate and walked her and she PP for me. I thought she was at least doing a little better and we went home. I expected the vet. She said she wasn’t sure of her outcome but we would continue to visit her in the middle of the night my 24 year old daughter and I went, I can see that just within 24 hours she had decrease or declined but I still did not believe it was going to be the end. We had discharge papers set up for the next day and while I was getting ready, I got a phone call she going into cardiac arrest went to have her given life-saving measures as I said no I heard I’m yelling in the background saying that she had a faint heartbeat for us to hurry up and get down there and say goodbye. Said that she thought euthanizing at this point would be the best option. When I tell you, I screamed at the top of my lungs when I hung up the phone like some was murdering me. I screamed and cried and screamed and cried, and I screamed at her name And I said Riley, honey I don’t know if you can hear me or not but if you can hear me, it’s OK to go ahead and go thank you for everything you did for mommy and I will always love you and I will see you again someday, but please don’t suffer anymore. Please go ahead and go over the bridge , I went upstairs to get my keys and the phone rang. It was the vet since she just passed. Jimmy come in and say goodbye to her with her being already gone. I said no because it was harder for me to think about seeing her like that, but now I’m regretting it I feel like she thinks I didn’t care , I feel so guilty that I didn’t get her shots more regulated. I feel like if that happened she will live longer and not had that pancreatitis caused her so much pain. I’m also dealing with the challenge of having so much anger towards my mother who was not listening to me. Can’t stop crying or eating challenge. I literally feel like I can’t breathe at times, she was sick but I just feel like I should’ve done more and I should when they said she flatline the first time but I thought I had more time. This is horrible. I don’t know how to get through it.