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I know that, if I were going to become a psychic, I would want to speak psychically to beings who in no way could ever tell anyone I was wrong. I'm not the first one with that idea, though, because this concept of pet psychics keeps making its way around. Most recently, in an article at Associated Content.

My dogs communicate with me in all kinds of ways: Eye contact, whining, pointing, running around an object, sitting in a specific spot and staring at me. I get what my dogs are trying to tell me in any number of ways. I do not believe, however, that they are sitting around sending out telepathic mind waves to inform me of their deepest feelings.

How do animal psychics do this? Many of them seem uncertain about how the process actually works, but they've simply learned to trust their intuition, gut feeling, or sixth sense. They typically claim that the communication is not verbal like human speech; even messages heard mentally are not presented with words but rather some concrete feeling impressions. Perhaps we could refer to these people as "animal interpreters", because one of the real miracles they perform is the translation of these inner impressions into accurate observations.

Right. "Miracles." Like John Edwards or the Psychic Friends Network.

I understand the desire to want to communicate better with your dogs and to better understand their needs. I go through that every day. Everyone with a dog should want the best relationship possible with their dog. The best relationship realistically possible.

I don't even fault the people with dogs if they fall for this kind of thing. People from all walks of life are confused about all kinds of things, and people with dogs are not exempt from that. I fault the so-called psychics (who are really just people trained in observation) for bilking folks out of money that could be better spent.