I saw a stand-up comic a few years back that noticed the weakness in the whole “pet psychic” premise. Whenever the animal clairvoyant — someone who is supposedly able to read pets’ minds — enters a home to “sense the thoughts” of a house pet, they always ask the same question first:
“What’s your pet’s name?”
What? Couldn’t Fido or Mr. Fluffy-Kins give you a psychic business card?
With the prime time arrival of Pet Psychic Encounters on Saturday nights over at Animal Planet, we have yet another show that exists comfortably in the realm of the unprovable. You can’t disprove that series host Sonya Fitzpatrick is a pet psychic because an Alsatian is very unlikely to hop up and scream, “No, I did not say I prefer dry food to leftover meatloaf! I object, sir!” You can’t prove a negative. The same rule holds up for the endless march of ghost shows on “reality” TV.
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