I am so sorry about Ingrid's passing!

Here on PetTalk there are many people who have experienced the amount of communication that can arise between different species!

I don't know exactly what "soul" means but I am absolutely convinced it is something we have and animals and especially pets have just as well.

And when they go it is the same as with any other being who came close to us: we cannot look over the big barrier between life and death but just have to comfort ourselves with the memory of the life we had together. And it sounds as if Ingrid and you had a very good life- and she knew it