Sonya Fitzpatrick - There Are No Sad Dogs in Heaven: Finding Comfort After the Loss of a Pet

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There Are No Sad Dogs in Heaven

This is a must-read for people who are mourning the loss of their animal family... Comforting and compassionate... Sonya guides you to the understanding that the spirit lives on.

John Edward

When you have the privilege of knowing Sonya, as I have, believe me, there are no sad dogs in heaven.

Robert Wagner

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Sonya Fitzpatrick

The Pet Psychic opens a new door to the world of animal interaction.

News-Sun

A cats-eye view of the world. Through cat tale after cat tale, she reveals whats most important to our feline companions and friends.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A modern-day Dr. Doolittle.

WashingtonPost.com

[She] has the magic ingredients for a hit: pets, paranormal chats, and a sense of humor about it all. Yes, Im hooked.

New York Post

If you think that psychic readings are just for human beings, then you thought wrong. Sonya Fitzpatrick, an English-born animal lover, not only psychically communicates with pets, but explains to their often frustrated owners just whats bothering them.

CBS News

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THERE ARE NO SAD DOGS IN HEAVEN

Copyright 2013 by Sonya Fitzpatrick

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PUBLISHING HISTORY

Berkley trade paperback edition / September 2013

ISBN: 978-1-101-62520-0

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To all my animals in the spiritual and physical realms, who have given me so much joy.

My dogs in their physical bodies: Sally, Moe, Jack, Joy, Lucky, and Maggie

My dogs in spirit: Traybe, Sabrina, Silky, Brue, Bella, Ellie, Judy, Sam, Foxie, Honey, and Holly

My cats in their physical bodies: Sunshine, Polly I and Polly II, Molly, Clair, Rosie, Dante, and Fudge

My cats in spirit: Cinnamon, Raisin, Blackie, Moonbeam, Wellington, Smokie, Jennie, Farmcat, Tiger, Cocoa, Churchill, Winston, and Winnie

My horse in his physical body: Lucky

My horses in spirit: Blackie and Pickles

My childhood geese in spirit: Buttercup, Daisy, and Primrose

My chickens in spirit: Henrietta, Clover, Dowsey, and Chip Chip

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to express my gratitude to all the people who were involved in making this book happen.

To Nancy Yost, my literary agent, for always believing in me.

To Judy Kern for her contribution to bringing this manuscript to a successful conclusion.

To Denise Silvestro, my editor at Berkley, for early support and continuing guidance.

For my devoted publicist, Brona Hanley, of Big Noise Productions.

To my daughter, Emma, for her loving support and the hard work she puts into acting as my personal assistant as well as for giving me my wonderful grandchildren, Emily and Peter.

To my sons, Sean and Patrick, for a unique relationship and for caring so much about the treatment of animals that they became vegans.

To my spirit guides, Dr. Thompson, Edgar Cayce, and Harry Edwards, and to my spiritual mentor, Saint Francis.

To all of my clients and their wonderful children in fur coats for making this book possible.

To the many sanctuaries and rescue organizations that have saved animals and changed their lives forever, including:

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (www.bestfriends.org)

Houston BARC Foundation (www.houstonbarcfoundation.org)

Montgomery County Animal Shelter (www.mcaspets.org)

North Shore Animal League (www.animalleague.org)

Pets Alive Animal Sanctuary (www.petsalive.com)

Special Pals Animal Adoption Center (www.specialpalshouston.org)

World Wildlife Fund (www.worldwildlife.org)

INTRODUCTION

Losing Ellie

I grew up on a farm in England where there were no other children to play with, and I also had a serious hearing loss that made it difficult for me to communicate with people. Perhaps for these reasons, I learned at a very early age that I was able to communicate with animals in a way most people could not. Animals communicate telepathically, with mental images and physical feelings that dont depend on hearing, so the farm animals became my best friends. Along with the joys of those friendships, however, came the deep pain and sorrow I felt whenever one of them was butchered or killed, as happens frequently on a farm.

I now live in Texas, in a house with a large garden, surrounded by numerous dogs and cats of all varieties, and I spend virtually every day assuring clients who both book telephone readings with me and those who call in to my Sirius radio program, Animal Intuition, that animals live on in spirit, just as people do, after theyve passed from our lives. But I still feel the same heartbreak they do when one of my own beloved animals leaves me.

Perhaps the most profound pain Ive ever felt at the loss of a pet came when I knew my dear Ellie, a Rhodesian ridgeback, was nearing the end of her life on earth. I love all my animals, of course, but Ellie and I seemed to have an especially deep soul connection. For thirteen years I had cried into Ellies neck when I was sad and shared my joys and triumphs with her, but now I could tell that her back legs were getting weak and achy, and then, one day, she suddenly became very ill.

I had been walking in the woods near my home with her and the other dogs, as we did every day, when Ellie suddenly fell to the ground and rolled on her side, unable to get up. I collapsed to the ground next to her and held her head in my arms as she looked deeply into my eyes. Ellie weighed one hundred twenty-five pounds and I knew there was no way Id be able to carry her the half mile out of the woods and back to the road. At that point I was absolutely frantic. The last thing I wanted to do was leave her there alone, but I knew that if I didnt get help quickly she would die. I know she understood me when I told her telepathically that I would have to leave her for a little while but that Id be back as quickly as possible. Then I picked up my two small dogs, called to the third to follow me, and ran as quickly as I could, tears streaming down my face, exhorting my spirit guides to bring the help I needed.