animal empathy

Louise Vajda of St Louis MO wrote to me about a remarkable dog named Shosty. She states:

“My husband’s parents lived in East Chicago, Indiana. My mother-in-law’s brother, John, lived with them. He was a diabetic. They had a dog named Shosty (short for Shostakovich, the Russian composer).

The brother John became ill and died. Immediately after the funeral, Shosty disappeared. Several days later a friend of the family found the dog, hungry and haggard, lying on John’s grave!

The remarkable and unbelievable part of this story is that the cemetery was many miles outside the city, and Shosty had never been there before. They had no idea how he had been able to find it.

I believe dogs have some special abilities of which we humans are unaware.”

-- Michael Fox, Animal Doctor