The Doctor Dolittles of BoCo

Secondly, animal communicators have become savvy enough to build phone consultations into their practice. Remote psychic readings are usually at least half of a communicator’s workload, which means they can eliminate travel time and get more clients due to the reduced rate.
“In telephone work, distance doesn’t seem to matter,” Nancy Bruington of Longmont told me.

Is there a limit to the distance between pet and psychic? Bruington once did a reading for a couple on vacation in China, so apparently not.

“I have done it a lot, depending on how much time and how much money people want to invest,” said Jenny Key, who works in Boulder and Denver. “I usually ask for a picture and three or four questions they want to look into,” to clarify things like age, temperament and personality.

Finally, communicators offer medical advice when an owner’s vet is stymied or at a diagnostic impasse. To do this, practitioners like Mack and Solisti can “scan” the body like an x-ray to identify areas of pain.

“I can feel how they feel, so I can ask her how she feels. If someone says, ‘I think they might be in pain,’ I’ll just sit and I’ll tune into her and I can feel it in my body where she feels it.”

In Lucy’s case, Mack scanned the body quickly and, finding no major maladies, found that her eyes were sensitive—not groundbreaking information, but good to keep in mind when planning a day out in Mother Nature.

The popularity of over-the-phone pet psychic readings and medical body scans brings up obvious questions about the process—and credibility—of telepathically receiving information, regardless of whether it’s from a human or a shih tzu. If distance doesn’t matter, why aren’t psychics bombarded with the thoughts of millions of others around the world at all times? How is physiological information formulated—then transmitted—via telepathy? Is this where full-blown skepticism takes over?

Animal communicators insist that the process is so foreign to linear, language-based human speech that it can’t be compared. It is a combination of intuition and telepathy where thoughts (not words), images, ideas and feelings are transmitted instantaneously.

“Different animal communicators would get their information in different ways,” explained Julie Mack. “I’ll sometimes see stuff, I’ll sometimes have a flash or a picture—but usually I’ll just know stuff. It’s like I get a download.”