Is it normal to still feel my dog jump up my bed? she has been dead for 6 years

I owned a dog named Poppy. She was some sort of chihuahua mix, really fluffy and looked kind of like a gremlin from the movie. She was my best friend and most of the time my only friend while I grew up in a very abusive household.

I couldn't take her with me to college so my grandma took her in. Unfortunately she got into the garbage and ended up getting a chicken bone lodged inside her, killing her. She was only 9, middle aged for a dog like her.

I swear I still feel her. She would always jump up on the edge of my bed and sleep near my feet. Maybe I'm dreaming, maybe I'm still mourning. But every time I go to sleep I still feel the little paws and the final *thump* of her laying her little body down. It even woke me up a little bit once, only to see nothing. I have a cat now, but he prefers to sleep in my closet at night, and I've only had him for a year and this has happened before then. I think maybe it just might be my brain, filling in what I expect. It may be dumb but I still miss her dearly.

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  • RoseIsabella

    If you're being haunted by the ghost of your late chihuahua then I would say that you're blessed!

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  • Its normal. I lost my dog to cancer this year, fuck 2020.

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    • Im sorry to hear that. I pray your heart can heal someday. I think I'm just someone who carries my grief with me always, I literally carry my brother's ashes in my purse wherever I go.

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  • Unknown_player

    I had also lost my friend midway through 2019 before this and if the energy of my dog was able to meet up with his I'm sure hes seen the pity and self loathing I had gone through. He would of sent my dogs spirit on the way to assure me that everything's okay . You can believe me or not but I reckon from what you described I think your dog was a one owner kind of dog... has only ever seen you as it's TRUE owner, even when your dog lived with your nan. Also dogs are more empathetic than you might think. Most animals do have that and although they have the intelligence equivalent of a toddler, they understand when they see someone in pain. In your dogs living life it would of seen you in pain and it comes to you to stop you feeling so down. If you want it to stop, you're going to have to tell her next time she comes that you appreciate her concern for you and that you're only sad now because she is gone and you miss her but you are happy if she goes to another place (heaven if you believe in that, spirit realm or afterlife) so that her energy can rest. She wont understand the sadness you now feel isnt fixable by her bringing happiness by her visiting you. She wont understand her visits are making you miss her or grieve. You just have to ask her to rest and hope to move on someday

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  • Unknown_player

    I am a believer in the paranormal, but not the "shadow figure" or the stereotypical "ghostly" sides to it. I believe in every living thing having an energy inside it and when their body is broken it breaks free. The energy can visit loved ones sometimes but it mostly wanders in and out of the living world. Sorry if I sound like a spiritualist or whatever, but I personally was made to believe this when my own dog passed away. She had to be put down for gallbladder and unfortunately I was in another town when these decisions were being made. Without even knowledge of what was happening that same evening I saw a ball of light come up to me. I thought I was seeing things or tired. I was a skeptic back then, a year ago. I felt a warmth come over me and I knew it wasn't a presence that would hurt me. Then it vanished. Well the next day I was shocked to find out of my dogs passing but have come to realize it was her way of telling me when no one else seemed to have the time to tell me. I had moved out from my parental house also and I felt regret as time went by of not spending enough time with my pupper. Always had school, and then work or friends to worry about. I reckon that's her way of telling me it was alright and to not hold onto that regret anymore. Death can actually be a beautiful thing. It can put to rest those who are feeling any kind of pain and to the untrained eye, pain was what she had gone through

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    • YE

      Of course death is only the beginning of a peaceful existence.

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  • randypete

    I still feel our cats after they have died

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  • dirtybirdy

    Gremlins weren't fluffy, that was Gizmo, the Mogwai. However, I live in a house where I feel a cat walk on my bed when my door is shut and the cat isn't in there. It's at the foot of the bed and sometimes walks right next to me. Very odd. This has happened even before I got my cat...hmmm

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    • Yeah thats what I meant! The pre-gremlin stage lol. Thats so strange! Maybe we just have a bunch of ghost animals around us regardless.

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  • Jump up *on my bed, but I had to edit the question like 3 times to submit -_-

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  • my_life_my_way

    You are imagining it. It is not normal to still be upset over a pet that died six years ago. It’s a dog, just get a new one of the same breed and give it the same name. It didn’t have a feelings or a soul.

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    • Why wouldn't animals have souls? They're living creatures who feel love and pain. Humans are just highly intelligent primates anyway. I'll have another dog someday but they will never be my Poppy Flower.

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      • my_life_my_way

        It didn’t have feelings or love you, it liked that you fed it, gave it treats and took it for walks. In the same way the majority of humans don’t really feel nearly as much as they say they do are just acting in their own self interest.

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        • SwickDinging

          Oh, I think this answers my earlier question. Your world view is very sad and I'm so glad that I don't share it.

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          • leggs91200

            That person posting before you always has such uplifting views of everything.

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            • SwickDinging

              Right? And I thought that I was a miserable cow...

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        • All I know is she would try to protect me when I was being beaten and press her head against me when I was crying. Animals have emotions and, at least mammalians, release the same love hormones that humans do. It's necessary for a lot of their rearing of their young. Humans are just very advanced animals ourselves, we're primates who share 99% of our dna with chimps. Even cats do this, which is why they'll leave dead animals for their owners, especially unspayed females. My sister's cat would leave dead gophers on her pillow, she was trying to teach her to hunt like she was a kitten.

          If animals don't love you personally, maybe they see something in you they don't like. Especially if you would just comment something like this to further hurt someone who is mourning. It's just weird.

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        • leggs91200

          It is not comforting to lose a pet. I recently lost my dog. Even though he was "passed down" to me when my mom died and I wasn't real close to the dog but it was still not a fun day when he was euthanized.

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          • my_life_my_way

            It’s a dog, it couldn’t communicate with you or feel anything towards you. Most people wouldn’t notice if the dog they claimed to love was just switched with an identical one of the same breed.

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            • https://youtu.be/WBED5i1DAZg

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            • bbrown95

              I highly doubt that is true. Animals have different personalities and quirks, and it would be very easy for me to tell that it was not the same pet if someone switched out any of mine over my lifetime. They're not inanimate objects and definitely not all exactly alike.

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    • bbrown95

      It is absolutely normal to miss and still be sad over a pet you lost any amount of time ago. To many of us, pets are a part of the family.

      They also cannot be replaced, regardless of whether they are the same breed and have the same name. They absolutely do have feelings, and I absolutely believe they have souls.

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    • raisinbran

      Just like gingers huh?

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    • SwickDinging

      I'm really surprised to read your comment. Not bothered about the soul bit but most pet owners I've known are still sad about pets that died a long time ago. I miss my dead pets. Regardless of your own feelings on pets, surely you can understand that people who choose to have them care about them a lot and see them as part of the household? Why the hell else would they have them in the first place?

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      • my_life_my_way

        Deep down they don’t care about their pets, they just like having another living thing that they have almost complete control over. They just act sad when their dog dies because they know it’s expected and will make them look like a good person.

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        • SwickDinging

          Wow. Do you really believe that, or do you just tell yourself this to make yourself feel"normal"?

          Just because you don't feel things doesn't mean that nobody else does. Most people have emotions.

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          • This kid wants to be a lawyer apparently, that explains everything to me lmao. They're also only 18 so I'm sure they're just going through their edgy know it all "I'm a grown up now!" adult teen stage. I'm happy to just be on the opposite end of that. My heart was hurt too when I was younger, but I put it towards showing love. I majored in psych and child development and hope to have my own daycare someday. I'll plant red and orange Poppies everywhere, for my Poppy, my dog. I'm also getting a tattoo of poppies when I can afford it. Reading how miserable this person is just reignited my need to spread love, like Poppy taught me to. I'll never forget my best friend.

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            • my_life_my_way

              Not miserable, actually pretty happy with how my life going right now. Just sharing a different view poing but it looks like your only argument against that is calling me a child and pointing out my age so that’s fine. 😂

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          • my_life_my_way

            Most people have emotions but they aren’t nearly as deep as they say they are. People play up their emotion when there is something to be gained from it.

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            • I think it's just you and not other people. You seem like a very bitter person bordering on sociopathy.

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