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Animal telepathy

Strife

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In real life, I’m a crazy cat person. Well, not really, but almost ;) And in those circles there has been much talk about animal communication and animal telepathy lately. It’s the kind of stuff that really makes me sick. I want to convince the cat organization I belong in to never waste money and invite such a person as a speaker. Is there anyone on this forum who knows anything about that area? I really want to help these people so they don’t waste their money on courses and frauds. But I probably need to do it really nicely..
 
Strife said:
In real life, I’m a crazy cat person. Well, not really, but almost ;) And in those circles there has been much talk about animal communication and animal telepathy lately. It’s the kind of stuff that really makes me sick. I want to convince the cat organization I belong in to never waste money and invite such a person as a speaker. Is there anyone on this forum who knows anything about that area? I really want to help these people so they don’t waste their money on courses and frauds. But I probably need to do it really nicely..
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Oh shut TF up! Kitty just told me to feed him some treats. How did I know? Guess!


M.
 
If the person who can communicate with cats can get the name of the cat from the cat rather than the owner, then they might be OK (fat chance). Suggest that little test before anybody throws their money in the litter box.
 
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Strife, perhaps this link will help you.



I not sure if I can help your being a cat person. :catface: To much work involved with that. :c1:
 
From www.richardwiseman.com


The ‘psychic’ pet phenomena: Dr Matthew Smith (Liverpool Hope University) and Prof Wiseman conducted four experiments examining the claim that a Yorkshire terrier named Jaytee could psychically detect when his owner was returning home. The results of these experiments did not support the existence of any paranormal communication between the owner and her pet. This research was widely reported in the media and published in The British Journal of Psychology. Dr Rupert Sheldrake has also carried out similar investigations and believes that his results support some form of psychic communication between Jaytee and his owner. Prof Wiseman and Dr Sheldrake have commented on each other’s findings in a series of academic articles.
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Link to more info here: http://www.richardwiseman.com/research/shel.html
 
In my experience, cats aren't mysterious, reticent creatures. It's pretty easy to tell what a cat wants. If the owner needs a psychic to tell them, then obviously they don't love their cat enough.
 
I remember hearing a bit of the Art Bell radio show years ago dealing with animal psychics. After the intro and Art explaining that he's always skeptical of paranormal claims, he introduces the guest and the next words out of Art's mouth are, "and you communicate telepathically with orca whales, do you not?".
Wish I had a link to an audio file from that show. The guest starts with the crazy right away, and runs with it like he was being chased by, um, orca.
 
Doesn't answer your question, but this topic almost caused some recent family strife. My sister-in-law's best friend (whom I have met and like a lot) recently quit her day job to become...an animal psychic. When my sister-in-law told me, she said something like "I know you don't believe in this stuff, but I'm kind of in the middle myself." I paused a moment -- it was one of those situations where you know you're better off saying nothing, but you really can't stop yourself -- and said "Not only don't I believe in animal psychics, I can prove they can't do it." My sister-in-law sort of challenged this; after all, animals can't talk, so how can you prove or disprove what they may be thinking? So I suggested a simple test: since her friend claimed she can conduct readings over the phone, I'll just set it up so half the time, there's a pet on the other end, and half the time no pet. If she can tell the difference better than 50/50, then she might be the real thing. If she can do what she claims, this ought to be an absolute slam dunk, right? My sister-in-law promptly left the room, signalling the end of the discussion.
 
My cat loves me. He only bites me and then noisily licks his bottom in front of guests as a way of showing me how much he loves me.
 
Animal telepathy? Why not. I'm sure it works as well as human telepathy. Go ahead, talk to all my farm animals. But I'm warning you- that sheep is a liar.
 
I was at a meeting concerning issues involving grief people feel about losing their companion animals in NYC a few years ago. I was was in a session with a woman from PA who claimed to communicate with animals when their owner called her on the phone. For a fee. She had all sorts of wonderful stories about how Fifi was depressed and Fang had issues with aggression and how she cured them. But when she claimed to have located lost pets by describing the colors of their surroundings, I asked if all these animals could see colors. She insisted they could.
Nailed. Kada bing, kada bang.
What's the current word for that?
 
I have cats, they communicate pretty effectively without psychic intervention. I find it most damning when (psychics claim) they convey emotions and thoughts that the brains of the animals are physiologically incapable of entertaining.

It kinda goes like this:
if the psychic says the animal wants food... BFD!
if the psychic says the animal wants more than food... it's probably something the animal CANNOT want.
So what's the fair test? specific information that the animal should know. Its name and its feeding and play schedule.
 
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We have a pet psychic on local cable. How the owners fall for this, I have no idea...'What's your dog's name?' 'Why have you come here today?' Once he has all the information he has gleaned from the owner that he needs to do the 'reading' he comes up with a drawing of the dog surrounded by an aura, explains the different colors of the aura, and then tells the owners things like 'He was bitten badly in a past life'...the owners are weeping for the pain their poor dog suffered, and they ask how they can rid the poor animal of the previous life's baggage. It's really sad.
 
I always try to stay within the bounds of good taste, but at what point during a "psychic" reading, be it of a pet or a person, is it acceptable to give a good hard jab to the face of the amoral piece of crap smiling before you?
 
Thanks guys. The claim that is going on is that the "pet psychic" can communicate with the animal through pictures. And that is just so very hard to believe, to put it mildly. I think it's way too easy to cheat. At first I thought an animal communicator was someone who had studied animal psychology and understood their body language well. It would make sense to invite a person like that. I can figure out what my cats want pretty easily too, most of the time at least. A combination of cold reading and studying the animal's behaviour would create some pretty good guesses, I imagine.

I talked with a woman who had been to an animal communicator with her cat. She said most things this person said were vague or impossible to confirm. But he had described objects in her home, despite never have been there. It impressed her.
 
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Oh shut TF up! Kitty just told me to feed him some treats. How did I know? Guess!


M.
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It non-telepathicaly scratched you until you got hold of his treats ? It non-telepathicaly used his paw to try to open the treats box ? It non-telepathicaly mewed near its empty feed bowl ?
 
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