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filthy
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Posted - 04/28/2009 :  03:16:35  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
While I am delighted the lady got her dog back none the worse for the experience, I really must question her logic.
Dog blown away by wind found by pet psychic

Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 110km/h gust of wind picked up the 2.7kg Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.

Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly 1.5km from where eight-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.
This one was a piece of cake for the charlatan:
Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly 1.5km from where eight-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.
If one knows the direction of the wind, just sent the suckers in the direction it was blowing. The down side of this is that the psychic can now claim a "hit," furthering the the practice of wooness yet farther.

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 04/28/2009 :  04:47:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What an adventure for that Chi! Her first, and hopefully last, experience of actually flying.

Yeah, I agree, Fil, as advice, "search downwind" hardly qualifies as being supernatural.


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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 04/28/2009 :  05:30:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Wouldnt even get a point for that in my contest...A pet mouse maybe.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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