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Ashycat popping back

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TheSecondMrsAshwell · 15/11/2021 13:26

I suspect that Ashycat has popped back across the Bridge to make sure I'm okay.

I have just moved into a new flat and had new carpet put down in the bedroom. I slept there the first time Saturday night.

Last night, I was sitting on the edge of the bed when I saw an object in the middle of the floor and picked it up..... It was a cat claw.

Now it could have dropped off of one of the bits of furniture brought in, but I prefer to think it was Ashycat popping back to make sure I'm okay.

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TheSecondMrsAshwell · 15/11/2021 13:27

Just to be clear, Ashycat passed away in September.

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Theunamedcat · 15/11/2021 13:31

Awww I love to believe they check on us I had a black cat called Bob he loved to rough and tumble with other cats but he was fat and they all ran faster than him which was sad 😔 he passed several years ago and I've now got three black cats who rough and tumble play together the other day four cats ran out of my kitchen and chased each other upstairs my son counted four I counted four I only have three!

I like to think he came back for a play

Fluffycloudland77 · 15/11/2021 14:21

Mine scratched the door 18 months after dying. Even when he’s dead I’m not allowed to sit down for 5 minutes.

AlfonsoTheUnrepentant · 15/11/2021 18:11

Awww. Ashycat wants you to know that he has arrived and settled in.

Pudmyboy · 16/11/2021 22:25

I rent a house that has a cat flap so obviously had cats in the past. I swear on several occasions when I was lying in bed, I felt the weight of a cat stepping over me. I am sure it was a previous cat resident. I actually felt welcomed by it, like I had been accepted.
Eventually I got my own feline and having been trodden on by a live cat, it served to confirm the sensation. Haven't had a ghost visit since though.

Pudmyboy · 16/11/2021 22:26

Flowers for your loss, RIP Ashycat

TheSecondMrsAshwell · 18/11/2021 11:26

Thanks @Pudmyboy

I've had the same feeling. There was definitely no-one on the bed with me, but I felt paws.

Ashycat is now with her previous owner - I got her from an old lady who went into hospital and then went straight into a home. She had dementia and didn't even know she had a cat until just before she died. Unfortunately, she remembered in her last days and we had to send to her to say that Ashycat was safe, well and loved.

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Astrak · 21/11/2021 11:47

Madam Kat used to tread over me in bed for weeks after she was pts.
Four months on, a large, male look-alike stray arrived at my door and has been my good companion ever since.
MK has not repeated her nightly visits since.
She was a brave and devoted cat whilst alive. In death she ensured I had another companion.
I hope she's now enjoying patrolling Heaven.

Fluffycloudland77 · 21/11/2021 19:03

I heard a miaow this evening when I was cooking, I actually thought it was new cat but it came from the utility where Bengal boy used to sleep.

It was two years to the day on Thursday.

I felt a paw on the bed once, slowly placed on my left like he used to before deciding to sit on me instead of beside me. I was sobbing myself to sleep and it stopped me. Mostly out of fear.

TheSecondMrsAshwell · 22/04/2022 09:56

I'm going to update this, because spookiness continued.....

I found another claw in December, it was nice to know she was still about.

Then earlier this week, I was in bed and I heard the unmistakeable sound of a mouse in the the bedroom. That upset me - I'm looking to adopt a couple of cats, but I won't be getting them any time soon. Great, I'll have to get poison at the weekend (which I'm not wild about, but it has to be done).

Got home late last night and there, in the middle of the hall floor, was a dead, fat, house mouse. It was completely intact, but was laid there in the way a cat leaves a mouse for you. To borrow the Transport Police's campaign "See It, Kill It, Sorted."

Now, I can believe that the mouse was poisoned elsewhere, got into my flat and died, but Ashycat was a good mouser in her day and I like to think she's still looking after me.

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Pudmyboy · 22/04/2022 23:57

Can't think of anything to say except: Wow!
I hope it is Ashycat looking after you from the great beyond!

Wagsandclaws · 23/04/2022 00:30

I've got 3 deceased kittos on my windowsill next to my bed so they will be near me...

Never felt them ever though. I wish I could. ( their ashes are in boxes just to clarify )

Maybe it because I have 3 more now 🤷‍♀️ maybe once they know some similar feline friends to themselves are looking after you they don't worry so stay we here they are.

I do miss them all though. I'm so glad ashycat is popping back, it's lovely to feel like they are close still.

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