My experience with a pet psychic

So, for those who may not know, I have three pets – a dog named Jasper (male), and two kitties – Baby Kitty (female) and Wellington (boy).  I had Wellington first – I got him in May 2002.  He was 4 at the time I got him.  I later got Baby Kitty in September 2002.  She was walking around my car one night after I came out of class.   I noticed something under my car and then looked more closely and saw that it was a kitten.  I couldn’t just leave her – even though my rule had always been one kitty per capita.  In other words, your cats can’t outnumber you.  Well, I took her home with the intention of feeding her and taking care of her until I found a home for her.  Her home ended up being my home!  I got too attached to her and couldn’t give her away even though I had someone who I KNEW would take really good care of her.  So, I justified the 2^nd kitty by saying that Wellington needed a cat for himself.  Which, to be honest, is probably not too far from the truth – he’s kind of a wild cat and needs a lot of interaction.  Jasper was the last addition –we have had him since September 07.  We got Jasper because Josh wanted a dog (I personally was just fine with the two kitties).   Well, since late Sept/early Oct, the house has been less than calm.  Jasper – while he’s 5 years old, still acts like a pup which the cats never liked.  Wellington eventually adjusted, but Baby Kitty has spent the last 10 months or so in the basement.  That’s where their food, water, and litter have always been anyway, so it wasn’t a completely new place for her.   And, our washer and dryer are down there, so we go down there pretty regularly.  Anyway, the past few months or so, we have noticed off and on various animal pee throughout the house.  Wellington was marking his territory throughout the basement and his favorite spot in particular was Jasper’s bed.   Jasper decided to join in on the peeing contest and started marking our living room furniture.  Fun times.   We weren’t sure what to do and just kept hoping it would go away – it wasn’t happening every week or anything – just randomly – a few times a month or so.  When Josh came home one night (while I was out of town) to a pool of pee in the living room, we pretty much decided we had to do something.  My friend had used a pet psychic and so I started seriously considering this route.  I had already thought about the pet psychic since Jasper and Baby Kitty did not seem to be getting used to one another.  Anyway, so after going back and forth a bit for the past couple of weeks, I finally made an appointment to speak with her last week.  

On Friday, I called her and she asked me some questions – had already sent her pics of the pets (all 3 of them) and gave some background (Welly and Jasper keep peeing everywhere) and Baby Kitty won’t come out of the basement because she’s so afraid of the dog.  So, we talk on Fri and we make arrangements for her to call me back in a few hours.   She then goes and communicates with the animals and calls me to tell me what is going on.  

With BK, she just gave me an exercise to do with her to help her better integrate with Jasper – she didn’t communicate with her.  And, she told me that we needed to change her name because “baby kitty” implies that she has to rely on someone else all the time and cannot fend for herself.  I told the lady that I usually call her Ma’am or Maamity Mamster.  She said that was fine and maybe we should have an official name change ceremony – lol. 

As for Jasper and Welly – the bottom line is that she said Wellington is very smart, but he’s also very bored and therefore he taunts Jasper making him have anxiety and so he pees on stuff.  Welly is peeing because he’s bored and at times, is demonstrating his alpha male prowess.    It’s funny because she said that we should let him outside more.  And, I don’t want him to go outside, but before I got him, he was an outdoor kitty – and then he got declawed.  She said he should still be ok even without his claws.   We did let him go outside over the weekend while we were out in the back yard and he was fine.  So, we will see.  I just feel like I am shortening his life span by several years by allowing him to be exposed to the elements.   Ugh.  She also told us that we have to be alpha parents when it comes to making Jasper feeling safe and secure and we can’t let Welly look at Jasper weird – especially when he’s eating.  Which is really odd because Wellington does go up and sniff Jasper a lot when he’s eating and Jasper always just moves away from Welly – you can tell he doesn’t like it – we noticed this pre-psychic. 

So, that has been my experience with the pet psychic.  I am hoping that if we can get Wellington outside more to burn off some energy and entertain himself more that that will help Jasper and his anxiety.  By the way, if you haven’t thought about it before now, Jasper is a total wuss and we were not surprised at all that he could be bullied by a cat.   And, we are doing our daily reconditioning exercises with Maamity Mamster and Jasper so hopefully within a few weeks, there will be balance and harmony in the house!