Jacky Newcomb - Cats in Heaven - And Other Animals. Heartwarming stories of animals from the other side.

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Chapter 1: Magik Chapter 2: Paranormal phenomena Chapter 3: Saying goodbye Chapter 4: Connecting in other ways Chapter 5: Psychic cat and human connections Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Author Also by Jacky Newcomb in the HarperTrue series … More by Jacky Newcomb About the Publisher

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My faithful companions, RIP

Magik – 19 August 2013

Tigger – 16 June 2015

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Title Page Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Chapter 1: Magik Chapter 2: Paranormal phenomena Chapter 3: Saying goodbye Chapter 4: Connecting in other ways Chapter 5: Psychic cat and human connections Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Author Also by Jacky Newcomb in the HarperTrue series … More by Jacky Newcomb About the Publisher

Copyright Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Chapter 1: Magik Chapter 2: Paranormal phenomena Chapter 3: Saying goodbye Chapter 4: Connecting in other ways Chapter 5: Psychic cat and human connections Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Author Also by Jacky Newcomb in the HarperTrue series … More by Jacky Newcomb About the Publisher Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of the story tellers. HarperTrueFate An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF www.harpertrue.com www.harpercollins.co.uk First published by HarperTrueFate 2016 FIRST EDITION © Jacky Newcomb 2016 Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers 2016 Cover photograph © Shutterstock.com Jacky Newcomb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Find out about HarperCollins and the environment at www.harpercollins.co.uk/green Sources ISBN: 9780008144470 Ebook Edition © August 2016 ISBN: 9780008144463 Version: 2016-07-27

Dedication Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Chapter 1: Magik Chapter 2: Paranormal phenomena Chapter 3: Saying goodbye Chapter 4: Connecting in other ways Chapter 5: Psychic cat and human connections Moving Memoirs eNewsletter About the Author Also by Jacky Newcomb in the HarperTrue series … More by Jacky Newcomb About the Publisher My faithful companions, RIP Magik – 19 August 2013 Tigger – 16 June 2015

Chapter 1: Magik

Chapter 2: Paranormal phenomena

Chapter 3: Saying goodbye

Chapter 4: Connecting in other ways

Chapter 5: Psychic cat and human connections

Moving Memoirs eNewsletter

About the Author

Also by Jacky Newcomb in the HarperTrue series …

More by Jacky Newcomb

About the Publisher

When my cat Magik died I was devastated; I sobbed so hard that the following day I ended up at the doctor’s surgery with two infected eyes. Magik came to us as a rescue kitten. She was being taken care of at an army home in a local barracks. I still remember my visit. I walked into the house and kittens were everywhere. Fluffy white balls with various dots of colour – all males, I was informed.

I was at the house for one reason. I’d had a dream that we were getting a new cat to add to our existing two-year-old ginger tom. This one was black, a kitten, full of life and fun … but female. In my dream the cat was playing with a butterfly and the following morning I began my hunt for the cat in my dreams.

My husband and I had a massive row about it. He’d been reluctant to get Tigger, our tomcat, but my ploy of taking him to the rescue home along with our two daughters worked. He, too, fell in love with the ginger striped cat that we brought home that very day. Tigger had a brother and a sister. Coincidentally the sister was a black female, but there was no way I could persuade my husband that we should take them both.

So there we were, two years later, and the longing for a second cat had always been simmering in the background. The dream had persuaded me; it was out of my control. I clearly remember my husband yelling, ‘We are not having another cat! You have to make a choice … it’s me or the cat!’

Seething, I quietly turned away from him. ‘I’ll miss you …’ I uttered, walking away. I was taking a big risk and I still don’t recall how I had the nerve. ‘I’ll miss you …’ Those words make me roar with laughter now, but at the time it was pretty mean of me. I loved my husband, but I wanted a cat so badly. Anyway, I reasoned, I’d been shown the cat in a dream; it was like destiny had stepped in. I couldn’t help myself. That’s the excuse I came up with.

After making numerous phone calls I finally found a rescue kitten being taken care of by a Cats Protection rescue family. It fitted my description. Now, sitting on the sofa in this home, I’ll be honest I was disappointed when the woman placed a small brown fluffy – and a little bit unattractive – kitten on the sofa next to me. Her brothers, twice the size, looked like the sort you might find in a magazine or television advertisement. This one was clearly the runt of the litter. But then everything changed in a moment. She looked up at me and crawled along the sofa and then climbed onto my lap. I think I loved her from that very moment. We connected and I knew that, yes, this was my cat, even if she didn’t look ‘quite right’ yet.