Can Animals Sense Death Or Are They Sensing Something Else?

A Quiet Season of Signs, Shifts, and Unexpected Calm

Lately, I’ve been wrapped in a kind of calm I can’t fully explain,  the kind that feels both comforting and a little suspicious, like the universe dimmed the noise without warning.

Steady. Soft. Nonchalant.It’s as if life shifted into a gentler gear and I only noticed it after settling in.

A year ago, I couldn’t figure out why the emptiness was swallowing me.

Now, I can’t explain how the fulfillment found me.

Life changes quietly like that without sound, without announcement and suddenly you’re someone new.

When Life Sends You Symbols

About a month ago, I joined a duathlon. I didn’t tell anyone partly because I wasn’t sure I could even finish it. But the entire lead-up felt strangely guided, as if the universe kept leaving tiny hints saying, “Go. This one’s yours.”

My bib number was 278.

And then on the way to Anticipated Mass, there it was a rainbow.Right in front of me as I was driving.Not something I had to look for. Not something I had to tilt my head to see. Just a quiet beam of color stretched across my path, almost like the universe placed it there on purpose.

It felt like a soft, gentle message:“Everything will be alright.”

Later at church, I found out it was the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the number of my birthday, November 29.

When race day came, it was the calmest I’ve ever been in any competition. Not scared.Not tense.Just steady, like my whole body already knew I could finish.

I ended up placing 2nd, and suddenly all the numbers —278, 2 (2nd place) 1978, swirled together like a soft, secret message: Look closer.

I didn’t expect that win.But maybe the universe wasn’t surprised. Maybe it knew before I did.

When Your Animals Start Acting Strange

This was the part that made me truly pause.

My husky started howling while I was away in Mongolia not the playful howl, but the deep, moon-talking kind. And even when I came home, he’d howl every time I left the house. But he doesn’t do that with anyone else. Just me.

Lately he sniffs me more, stares at me longer, barks like he’s trying to form human sentences. Our first cat too, meowing nonstop, shadowing me everywhere as if she’s guarding something I can’t see.

It brought me back to 2019.

One of my best friends went missing after a river adventure. My husky howled every morning for days. Heavy, aching howls. Deep down I felt something wasn’t right. And when the heartbreaking news finally arrived… the howling stopped.

That memory stayed with me stuck in my ribs.

And it made me ask again:

Can animals sense death? Or do they sense our emotions long before we can name them?

A Strange Coincidence in Alabang

And then, recently in Alabang, the ID number they handed me was 1178.

11 — my birth month.

78 — my birth year.

Another soft tap from the universe:

“Hey, look again.”

For a moment I wondered…

Are these signs of something ending?

Or signs of something shifting?

Maybe the Universe Isn’t Warning,  Maybe It’s Transforming

Here’s where all the signs, numbers, howls, and quiet emotions led me:

Maybe none of this is about death.

Maybe it’s about rebirth.

The shedding of an old self.

The arrival of a calmer season.

A moment when the universe whispers,

“You’re exactly where you need to be.”

Because right now, my life feels full. Genuinely, quietly full. Everything I desire is unfolding not loudly, not dramatically but naturally, like it was always meant to.

And maybe that’s why my animals cling to me. Not because something is ending,but because something inside me is shifting. Healing. Growing.

Animals sense change.

They feel energy, transitions, emotional tides.

They react to our becoming.

So… Can Animals Sense Death?

Science says animals can sense illness, hormonal changes, stress, tension, grief, emotional storms but not literal death.

But maybe what they sense isn’t an ending.

Maybe they sense change.

A new chapter.

A new kind of peace.

A shift in your heartbeat, pace, aura, all the things we humans can’t measure but animals detect instantly.

And maybe we humans feel it too, but we call it:

“signs,”

“coincidences,”

“alignment,”

“fate.”

The Quiet Truth I’m Learning

This season of my life doesn’t feel like an ending.It feels like a beginning disguised as stillness.

A calm earned from years of chaos.

A fullness born from years of emptiness.

A gentle arrival into the life I’ve been slowly building.

Maybe the universe isn’t counting down anything.

Maybe it’s simply confirming:

You are stepping into the life you were meant to grow into.

And your animals , your companions, feel that evolution with you.

So when I see the numbers,

when the calm settles in,

when my husky howls and my cat follows me like she knows a secret…

I don’t hear warnings anymore.

I hear guidance.

Alignment.

A quiet unfolding of a new chapter.

And honestly…

I’m grateful for it. :)