Birthday Rats!

One thing I did for my recent birthday was to go for a long walk on the beach. When I came home, I found a HUGE rat right in the middle of the Welcome on the door mat! My cat, Beast, who is a great hunter, but hadn t brought me any gifts for quite some time, brought me a birthday present!

My husband, whose birthday follows mine by 6 days, and I had a birthday party on the Saturday in between our two birthdays. Nothing fancy, just inviting lots of people for a pot luck, since no one seems to RSVP any more. The morning of the party, we were frantically cleaning, but had yet to put out any of the food or the utensils. We do clean occasionally, so this should not have set off alarm bells for Beast. Nevertheless, he showed up with yet another rat his contribution to the pot luck!

After the party ended, Beast showed up with yet another rat, and headed for my husband s favorite chair. Perhaps it was his gift to my husband?

Do you have a good animal story, a time when one of your pets knew something they couldn t really have known?

In case you re interested, there s a great book, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals by Rupert Sheldrake. I read it a long time ago, but if I remember correctly, he shows many instances of dogs (and birds?) who know psychically when their humans are returning.