Several years ago we sadly had to have our female Great Dane Myla put to sleep. We had acquired her from the Alliston Humane Society along with another Dane, who we were told was her son. We also learned from the Society that she had been the product of a puppy mill and as she was past breeding age, the breeders kept her last litter and abandoned her and her neutered son along a country road. Horrific as this was, it was a blessing for us, as we adopted both of them.
They were both large solid Danes, with Myla weighing in at about 175 lbs. Their nightly ritual was to retreat to their drop n’ flop beds downstairs, but in her final weeks of limited mobility, we had moved their beds to a room adjacent to the kitchen.
As any pet owner knows, each pet has their own unique traits and habits. Myla’s was to stand in the middle of her bed and turn around exactly sixty times before dropping down to sleep. She would turn thirty times counter-clockwise, thirty times clockwise, and then drop her 175 lb frame unceremoniously onto her bed.
To make her passing emotionally easier to deal with as our vet had come to the house for Myla’s passing, we had removed her bed once she was gone. The night of her passing, we tucked in as we normally would. As we lay there in the darkness and silence, both my husband and I heard a shuffling in the kitchen like nails on tile, and then a distinctive thud. My husband whispered to me, “did you hear that?” “I sure did, she letting us know she’s still here with us,” I replied. We discussed it in the morning, wondering if what we heard really was just imagination and sorrow, yet we both heard exactly the same thing – thirty turns one way, pause, thirty turns the other way, pause, and drop.
Regardless of what time we went to bed, we heard this repeatedly for seven consecutive nights, then it stopped, never to be heard again. We knew that she was still with us but was finally able to let go of her emotionally-driven bedtime routine.
Contrary to what others in this field may see or say, I have always witnessed our departed pets around us, just as our human relatives are. Love of the soul is unconditional and without boundaries.
Warmly,
Deborah Johnson
Clairvoyant, Medium, Author, Speaker
Deborah Johnson Medium 
Yes, they are with us and around us!
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