Kathi Kibble: The Pet Psychic

Back in Feb. 2006 I wrote a society story on Kathi Kibble, a woman who has gained quite a reputation for tending to the psychic needs of Highland Park pets. For the story I had her commune with my own dearly beloved mutt Pete. Back then, I asked Kathi to please tell Petey he didn’t need to protect me so much– and seeing that Petey may or may not have attacked a federal employee of late, it didn’t work. But she also told me, not in the article, that Petey’s mom died early on and he knew he had to leave his pack if he wanted to survive (I found him in a creek when he was a puppy). A nice theory but Pete had on a turquoise collar when I found him & Kathi didn’t say squat about where that came from.

Anyhoo…

So I’m reading Why We Love by Dr. Helen Fischer, which is all about our brain chemistry and the evolution, anthropology, and the science behind loving, and I get to this part about an experiment on puppies (who would do this to a puppy, I’ll never know) where when they separated it from it’s mom, it started to cry and paw, but after a while it curled up in a despondent state in the corner and some started to suckle to make themselves feel better.

HELLO! Petey suckles! Every night, just as he falls sleep he starts to suckle the air. Could Petey’s mom have really died? Could Kathi have been right?

Now the more logical answers are that Petey was a) weened to soon b) separated for other reasons from his mom too soon c) when he was dumped in the creek (my theory), he went into that despondent state and started the suckling habit there. But there is that .000000001 percent chance that Kathi was on to something.

Kibble: the REAL pet psychic? You decide!