Has Your Dog Been Alive Before?

3 million Britons believe their dog has been reincarnated.

Belief in reincarnation is a central tenet in many major religions but now research has revealed that one-in-ten Britons think their pet may have lived before too.

According to a new survey conducted for Petplan, the UK’s leading pet insurer, 13% of the British public believed that a current or former pet was a reincarnation.

Dogs proved to be the type of animal most likely to be considered a reincarnation by pet owners: 51% said they had or have dogs in which they believe to be a re-incarnation; whilst 44% said it was a cat.

Startlingly, 2% of owners thought their fish was a reincarnation.

Just over a quarter (27%) of those believers in reincarnated pets thought a spirit of a previous pet had returned while 23% thought that a person they had known previously had returned in animal form. The third most common view was that the pet was inhabited by the spirit of another animal.

Asked why they felt their pet was a reincarnation, most believers (43%) said it was ‘just a feeling I get’ while others cited odd reactions by the animal in specific situations (28%) and displays of inexplicable knowledge (27%).

Petplan’s head of marketing, Simon Wheeler, commented:

“Our experience tells us that dog owners are closely attuned to the behaviour of their pets, and some of the more unusual behaviour is raising questions about their animals that can’t be explained easily.

“Reincarnation is a commonly held belief globally so perhaps it’s no surprise that so many people think their dog may have lived before – though quite how you’d know a fish was a reincarnation, I can only guess.

“There are certainly many well documented cases of dogs displaying unusual knowledge of being able to sense things before humans are aware of them.

“It’s a bit of a cliché, but how many times have you seen a horror film in which the dog is aware of the monster before the intended human victim?

“In the real world, there are reports of some animals which can detect illnesses and even sense when their owner is about to have an epileptic fit.”

Reincarnation is the metaphysical teaching or belief that some essential part of a living being, commonly the spirit or soul, survives death to be reborn in a new body. The literal meaning of reincarnation is ‘to be made flesh again.’

The survey of 1,975 Britons was conducted by leading independent research company YouGov.

In 1999, leading British horror author James Herbert published Fluke, a novel about a man reincarnated as a dog. The novel was subsequently made into a film starring Matthew Modine.

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