Misc Resources and Pet Grief

“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”
  - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

That moment when all is in perfect bloom...

• Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small - Ted Andrews

•  Kinship with All Life - J. Allen Boone

"All life, regardless of its form, classification or reputation, will respond to genuine interest, respect, appreciation, admiration, affection, gentleness, courtesy, good manners."  - J. Allen Boone


Review from 2011 on Goodreads. Pretty much says it all:

Jeanette "Astute Crabbist - "When I was a tiny tot we had a skunk that sometimes shared our house. Not a pet skunk, mind you, but a wild skunk with all stinkbombing apparatus intact. This skunk slept in the bottom drawer of a built-in bureau. Mr. Skunk had somehow found his way in through the walls and into that drawer. My mom let him stay. She communicated with him both verbally and mentally. Somehow she made him understand that he was welcome as long as he confined himself to that one drawer and never sprayed his scent anywhere on the property. He cooperated, and got a nice, cozy indoor bed.

One of my earliest memories is of opening that bottom drawer, thinking "Skunk is sleeping," closing the drawer, and continuing on with my diaper-clad day. It was the most natural thing in the world to me that Mom communicated with critters, and I've always done the same.

So we come to late 2010. My frail, elderly mother says to me, "I have a book I want you to read," and she hands me Kinship With All Life. "This is the philosophy I used when I was raising you kids." All these years, and I never knew she got it from a book!

Now I've read the book, and I feel fortunate to have grown up with the philosophy. None of it seems strange or ridiculous to me, because I've been doing it from infancy. All it takes is respect, humility, and the recognition that real communication is silent and comes from the heart---yours and theirs."


Pet Grief -- 

There is no perfect way to manage grief but there are some helpful resources.

• Rainbow Bridge

• Rainbow Bridge: Facebook 

• The Daisy Sutra by Helen Weaver - Conversations with a dog that are relate-able to all pet and animal lovers. A Spiritual Journey. 

"Painful as it was to lose her physical form, Daisy's death brought me a great gift: the discovery of animal communication. Her death was a doorway into a whole new world, a world in which we humans are no longer so alone." - Helen Weaver (author's site) The Daisy Sutra 

Recommendations for -

The Daisy Sutra is a deep and touching story of the soul bond of a human being and her dog through death and beyond. How the author discovers that we can communicate with each other, no matter what our species form, opens a gateway for us all to a richer, feeling experience of our life on Earth. - Penelope Smith, animal communicator and author of Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication

Helen Weaver’s story of her beloved dog Daisy will touch the hearts of all dog lovers. Anyone who has a pet they cherish will be inspired by this deeply felt memoir. - Dan Wakefield, author of Returning: A Spiritual Journey