Animal ESP?

[Catherine]

I love the story of the elephants. It is so touching that they paid respects to their friend. You are right, where ever he is, he is still active.

There will never be actual measurable scientific results. I think these extra senses are too subtle. However so many of us have had experiences like that with animals and ourselves. I think of someone I haven't heard from in a while and then the phone rings. Dogs Like your Toby just seem to know that someone is coming.
Dogs seem to know about death, but so do some people.

It would be good if we could study the phenomena more carefully and try to understand what is happening. Is it one sense or are there a number of different senses. Why do some people/animals become aware and others do not.
I have a good sense of danger/impending accident and have prevented things from happening. Am I just very good at assessing things or is it an extra sense. It would be an interesting research project, but hard to sort out the data collected.

I will check our library for the dog books. Our old family dog always knew when my father was about to arrive because he would go to the door. No he did not come home at the same time and I doubt that he heard him coming because he would go to the door too soon for that.