A very Off The Wall Concept---Maybe???--Pet/Animal Souls

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I don't know why I suddenly had this idea and notion...BUT This all has to do with loved ones who have died...and I don't just mean our human loved ones either. Now I'm part Native American and many of our cultures believe that when our loved ones die, we are still surrounded and protected by them....sort of the equivalent of guardian angels in other beliefs...in fact, we of native origins believe we are virtually surrounded by our ancestors who can guide and protect us. I kind of like that idea, don't you? Then I got to thinking of those of us, who have had pets in our lives...Many of us believe in the wonderful idea of Rainbow Bridge--the idea that when we die, we will one day meet all the pets we have ever known, taken care of and loved. But then I began to think...do our former pets ever remain "attached" to us even while we live? The reason I ask this and thought about this, is that long time ago I read this story..a true one and I believe it was an article from Cats Magazine..I still have it somewhere...it was one of those that had me crying in buckets as I read it. The basic story was, of how a woman just recently lost her cat of fifteen years....one of the habits of her cat, was that she would hop up on the woman's bed and nestle herself on top of the woman's chest, and as the woman was gently falling asleep, the cat would gently place it's paw on the woman's face, as if to say, "Good night"...In the morning, when the cat sensed her owner was waking up, would again gently touch the woman's face as if to greet her "Good morning."Well now the woman's cat had died...she was beyond grief as she missed her feline companion,...she missed that gentle paw on her face before going to sleep, and that velvet paw on her face as she woke up....She was depressed to say the least. Several weeks passed after the woman's cat died. One night she was starting to drift off to sleep, when all of a sudden she felt that familiar gentle, velvet paw upon her face. Her eyes flashed open, and she could see this form resting on her chest again, yet it had no weight, not as it did in life...but it was her cat. She drifted off to sleep with a peaceful smile on her face, knowing that she had just been visited by her loving feline companion of so many years. Like I said when I read this story I was crying buckets.... But this memory got me going...I've had many pets over the years...some I remember more than others...but I have to admit....out of the blue, I start thinking about one of my cats for no apparent reason...they may have died years and years ago...like why? Why am I thinking about them? Are they "passing" through from their existence in Rainbow Bridge to visit me? And I swear...there are times I can be alone in the room save for my present two cats...and from the peripheral vison of my eye...I swear I'm seeing one of my former kitties. So here is the question....if some of us may believe that our "ancestors" or loved ones who have passed on are "with" us at times to protect/guide us....Is it possible our pets we've had, do the same? Have any of you "seen" or felt the presence of a former pet?