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She Charges $550 for 90 Minutes and Has a Wait List of 7,600 People
WSJ ^ | 11/12/23 | Katherine Bradley

Posted on 11/14/2023 11:20:46 AM PST by DallasBiff

Tech worker and part-time dog trainer Maddie Guy, 33, couldn’t figure out what was going on with her English Springer Spaniel, Rudder. He was being snippy with other dogs and facing a medical issue so mysterious that every test had been run and a doggy MRI ordered.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: pets; psychic; ripoff
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I don't know, but the dog looks unhappy.
1 posted on 11/14/2023 11:20:46 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

They don’t charge that much in Vegas...........................


2 posted on 11/14/2023 11:24:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DallasBiff

paywall


3 posted on 11/14/2023 11:24:54 AM PST by Retgearjammer
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To: Retgearjammer

This looks like the same article on another site:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-charges-550-for-90-minutes-and-has-a-wait-list-of-7600-people/ar-AA1jPNTx


4 posted on 11/14/2023 11:29:12 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

“They don’t charge that much in Vegas...”

True that, but see if you can get a good plumber for that.


5 posted on 11/14/2023 11:30:31 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You can’t even get a bad plumber for that!..............


6 posted on 11/14/2023 11:31:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s usually not a good idea to tightly embrace a dog with their snout that close to your face, at least not for extended period of time.

Fido and Fifi can’t talk, so what can they do to let you know, they’ve had enough Lovey-Dovey stuff for the time being? Their natural choice is to squirm, giving you first notice to put them down.

Their next method is usually to make a noise, a whine, a moan a subdued growl.
If the owner still does not quite get it, fine, be stupid.
Fangs will now be bared to communicate!


7 posted on 11/14/2023 11:31:26 AM PST by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

“Pet psychic.” My friend’s elderly mother once spent several hundred dollars she couldn’t afford to hire a “pet psychic” to figure out why her cat seemed unhappy. I’ve thought many times that if I had no morals it would be dead easy to get obscenely wealthy exploiting the hippy-dippy new agers. They’ll fall for anything that seems to fit with their loopy beliefs.


8 posted on 11/14/2023 11:31:40 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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“Pet psychic.” My friend’s elderly mother once spent several hundred dollars she couldn’t afford to hire a “pet psychic” to figure out why her cat seemed unhappy.


9 posted on 11/14/2023 11:33:31 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Woman walks up to a guy and says “I’ll do anything you want for $1,000”

Guy: Anything?

Woman: Anything

Guy: Anything??

Woman: Anything!

Guy: Here’s my address. Go paint my house.


10 posted on 11/14/2023 11:37:35 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: noiseman
There's some subrosa humor in the article. The featured woman charges over $6/minute. The other "pet psychics" mentioned charge a quarter or a third of that.

The top dog at $6/minute figured out how to separate suckers from their money.

All she needs to do now is dust off P.T. Barnum's sign...


11 posted on 11/14/2023 11:38:28 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Still Thinking

LOL. A classic.


12 posted on 11/14/2023 11:38:59 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DallasBiff

I can tell you what 95 percent of pet owners problems begin with the type pet they chose.
Apartment and suburban dwellers pick an high energy dog and leave it cooped up in their cramped homes while they go to work and the dog goes nuts trying to bleed off that pent up energy. The owners come home to their furniture torn to shreds because “mummy” or “daddy” is too tired or too damned lazy to take them for a long run
They pick cattle dogs that are breed to run all day because it’s in style.
Then they pay “experts” like this to tell them what they should have researched before they got the poor dog.

The pounds are full of dogs like this along with pit bulls they no longer want because it’s vtoo much dog.

F these idiots!!!!!


13 posted on 11/14/2023 11:40:03 AM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks! ;)


14 posted on 11/14/2023 11:40:18 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: DallasBiff

Nice looking girl. Not $550/hour nice.


15 posted on 11/14/2023 11:42:43 AM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
There's some subrosa humor in the article. The featured woman charges over $6/minute. The other "pet psychics" mentioned charge a quarter or a third of that.

The top dog at $6/minute figured out how to separate suckers from their money.

The others just haven’t figured out that liberal new agers are VERY status conscious. That’s why they so love to use demonstrations of their new age quackery as “proof” that they are more enlightened than everyone else. To people like that, higher prices automatically denote greater value (and status) than lower-priced services. The smart “pet psychic”, like this woman, would be wise to gouge them for everything they have, because they’ll likely enthusiastically give it.

16 posted on 11/14/2023 11:50:32 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: DallasBiff

On a tangent

Read recently about a cowboy from California who became fast friends with Queen Elizabeth while helping her train horses

https://archive.is/hOBKL


17 posted on 11/14/2023 11:57:57 AM PST by PGR88
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The pounds are full of dogs like this along with pit bulls they no longer want because it’s vtoo much dog.

I had the nicest pit/hound mix for 12 years(she was 2 and fixed at the pound)

She only barked twice, nicest dog ever, and I didn't need a "physic".

18 posted on 11/14/2023 12:04:18 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: RedMonqey

“F these idiots!!!!!”

FTA, it appears the dog is of the same mind as you.

You are a true psychic


19 posted on 11/14/2023 12:04:37 PM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: PGR88
'Anytime the queen was around horses, she came under a sense of calm'

This is true about horses - I've never understood if it's their sheer, comforting size, or their temperament; but I loved being around them and in the barn when they had gotten down to their hay and feed.

(I was wondering a few paragraphs in if he had written a book, and glad to see that he has. Thanks for this article!)
20 posted on 11/14/2023 12:12:37 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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