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Psychic Pet Travel – No Passport Required

Posted by Heather Brautman | Fri, Jul 26, 2013 @ 10:00 AM

DogBackpackPet lovers will do just about anything to ensure that unconditional love of a furry (or scaly, feathered, slimy, finned) friend remains for just about ever, from microchipping to the currently hotly debated practice of tattooing animals. When a pet goes lost, or somehow gets separated from his people, it may be a little bit of comfort to know that innately, your canine/feline companion has something working inside him to get him home.

Disregarded by some as complete flim-flam, there’s a school of thought to a phenomenon called “psi trailing.” You may not know the term, but you certainly know the story – those viral videos or the hot lead-in to Dateline NBC’s broadcast about a family reunited with their pet, sometimes years after it was lost. What’s most often the biggest surprise of the reveal? That the pet traveled hundreds or even thousands of miles on its own to take part in that reunion.

SuitcaseCatsWhether the story is a cat that jumped away during a cross-country move or a dog that gets turned around in the woods right behind his home, this innate concept of psi trailing is unique to the animal industry. (People who claim they have “no sense of direction” can’t hope to hone their psi trailing skills.) The technology working within psi trailing goes deep, referencing Bell’s Theorem and electrons sensing that their little groups were out of sync and therefore righting themselves, i.e., cosmically bringing pet and owner back together. Then there are folks who simply believe we have such a strong psychic connection with our pets, that it’s enough for them to hone into and find us.

Of course, you won't find education about psi trailing or psychic reading on any Doctor of Veterinary Medicine curriculum. Prospective veterinarians at Colorado State University, for example, take courses such as Functional Anatomy, Veterinary Parasitology, Veterinary Clinical Toxicology, and Bioanalytical Pathology, but psi trailing doesn't make any major medical schools' rosters.

DogSuitcasePsi trailing doesn’t attempt to explain how the animal exists, often for years or across thousands of miles. Perhaps a cat gets scrappy and lives off the land like a hobo complete with a knapsack on a stick, or a dog happens to catch a ride with a couple of hitchhikers, always adjusting his internal compass towards his people. Experts are also quick to distinguish psi trailing from the “homing” instinct we may be more familiar with. Can you guess the cap on the distance for accurate homing? It’s no more than 7.5 miles. Homing won’t take a pet nearly as far on its quest for reunion. (Note that while homing is often associated with pigeons, other animals can “home” as well. That is, if home is within a 7.5 mile radius.) Psi trailing fills in the gap of those additional – sometimes many more additional – miles. For the family whose cat “psychically” follows them from New York to California, it may be time to roll out that psi trailing tuna welcome mat.

Do you believe in psi trailing? Have you experienced it for yourself? Please share your inspirational story below!

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Topics: Veterinarians

Written by Heather Brautman