I have never experienced this. But I believe it to be possible. I know Joshua P. Warren should have a book out about this subject by now. He is an investigator in North Carolina who has some interesting theories with a lot of lab work to back them up.

I do think animal spirits could explain growling evps. Most researchers automatically assume the growling is from negative entities or demonic spirits. But it very well could just be the spirit of a good dog still watching over it's home as it did in life.

Well if people have issues crossing over, seems to me that animals could have the same problem. Although I have not encountered something like that. It interest me all the same.

This is terrible! It's the people who play with fire that just begged to get burned!

But back to the subject at hand.

I lost both of my beloved familiars at the same time last February. Duchess ( a wolf hybrid)had severe arthritis and had to be put down. And Cricket ( border collie) was found to have terminal breast cancer. They were put down on the same day, in the same room, at the same time. ( our vet had taken care of them for 5 years and felt it was the right thing to do.)

I still feel both of them with me from time to time. Especially Duchess. She was never one to be inside, but she patrols the backyard on a regular basis and I have felt her presence in threatening situations. She is still my rock. And I hope that any dog I get from here on out will be able to deal with her presence because I hope she stays for along time.

I have not experienced any of my pets coming back either, but then again I'm in the wrong place. My 3-legged black cat and my mom's dog died while I was in jail. They died at her house and I live in Tampa now, but when I go to visit her again, if I sense anything, I'll let everyone know.

When I was very little, we used to have a lot of outdoor cats.

One year there was an infection that spread like wild fire through the entire neighborhood, and pretty near all the kittens died from it.  Even several of the adults died.   It wasn't found out what the infection was, or if it was, the adults never told us kids.

But for the rest of the year, in the early mornings when the kittens normally would have been very active, you could hear kittens crying and their mothers calling back to them.    But most of the mothers had died with their litters. 

So it was a rather creepy year, that year.   I can't stand cats not being well-taken care of and ignored, for that reason.