Here is a sentence that should not be a real service in 2026, and yet here we are: you can now pay a stranger to telepathically ask your cat whether it would prefer the beach or the mountains. Not for itself, necessarily. For its afterlife. The Washington Post ran a feature on May 12 about pet psychics, and buried in the usual stuff about contacting departed hamsters was a genuinely new wrinkle. Animal communicators have started offering travel readings, and people are booking them. What a pet travel reading actually is The pitch is simple enough that it almost sounds reasonable until you say it out loud. You are planning a trip. You do not know if your pet should come along, stay with a sitter, or go to a boarding facility. A normal person guesses, asks the vet, and feels mildly guilty either way. A pet psychic, by contrast, claims to consult the animal directly.…