Animals in Spirit: Our Faithful Companions' Transition to the Afterlife

This book has offered comfort in the midst of feeling overwhelmed and distraught over the very recent loss of our beautiful 12-year old Golden Retriever "Max." I was actually searching for another book on the topic of dealing with pet loss when I ran across this one. I knew there was a spirit world for our precious friends, but this book answered many of the questions I had been asking, and showed me how to communicate to my beloved dog. I only wish I would have found the book a little sooner, before he passed vs. afterward.

I think this book is amazing, tells you everything that you need to know about your animals afterlife. They are not dead , they are just going to the next level of their life. My dog passed away last month( Mar'09),I'm still grieving but after reading this book, gave me so much comfort. I Love it!!

Very well written, and really opened my eyes about the spirit world. I always believed in the spirit world, but after reading this book, and communicating with our dearly beloved cat who passed on to the spirit world, I now KNOW there IS a spirit world. Anyone who has had a pet pass on to the spirit world, should read this book. I will definely buy more books written by Penelope Smith in the future.

A book for anyone that has helped an animal or has had a animal transition in their lives this is the book to read. The stories in it helped to heal my heart from the recent experience of helping my soul-mate cat PC (Perfect Cat) transition. Deeply moving and a well written book.

Penelope Smith's most recent book, "Animals in Spirit", is a beautiful, heartfelt, and sensitive guide to animals' perspectives on the death and dying process, as well their experiences in the spiritual dimension after leaving the physical body. In sharing her communications with her own animal companions, those of her clients, and in the wonderful contributions of experiences from many other animal communicators and their clients, Penelope addresses the experience of death from the animals' viewpoints, and also sensitively discusses the grief process for the animals' human companions. I especially loved the section on reincarnation, and the various ways that animals may choose to return to their people in a different body. This book made me laugh, cry, and rejoice at the variety and depth of animal wisdom concerning death. It opened my heart to deeper places of love and trust that love never dies, and to the knowledge that the energy of the connection with our animal friends is eternal. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has loved and lost an animal. There is a wonderful exercise for helping people to connect with the spirits of their animal friends who have died, as well as a beautiful grief and memorial ritual contributed by animal communicator Barbara Janelle. Throughout, the heartwarming communications from the animals to their human friends assures us that death is most often a natural transition for animals to a different state of being, without the fear and cultural baggage that we humans so often associate with it. In this, the animals are our teachers, as they show us how to accept the death process as a part of the eternal continuum of life. My favorite passage in the book is at the very end, in a poetic inspiration that came through Penelope, which states, in part: "Flow with spirit, ever-changing in its guises. See the wildflowers bloom and die and give their seeds to the Earth. Nothing ever really dies or fades. Everything dissolves into unity and flows into another sea or shower or puff of air". As I experience the love and connection with my own animal friends, both in form and in spirit, I am so grateful for all that the animals have to teach us about love, life, and death.