- I was like, "Is he happy?"
Because I want him to be happy,
'cause he's perfect.
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So, I have a son, his name is James,
he is one and a half years old,
he is a sweet boy.
Well,
so I think he's a sweet boy.
The character that I built up for James in my head
is very much a teenage boy.
He would be the kind of teenager
that like slams his door on you
at least three times a week,
and then you'd be like,
"James, no!"
And then he would calm down and be like
a little teary eyed, and hug you,
and be like,
"Mom, I'm so sorry, I won't do it again,"
that you'd completely forgive him,
and then he does it two days later,
and it's a whole cycle.
So I've always been curious about pets psychics,
because with James,
I don't know what he's thinking.
He takes after his mom
in that he has resting bitch face.
So, although I've never sought out a pet psychic,
I've definitely thought about it
and I'm very excited today,
'cause I just wanna know what's going on.
What's going on with my son!?
- Hello!
- Hi, how are you?
- Good, I'm excited to meet you.
- I'm excited to meet you too! (Chantel laughs)
- I have many questions about James,
so I'm very happy to have you here.
- Aw, well I can't wait to meet him!
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- So this is James.
- James does not have to stay- - Okay.
- -if he doesn't want to.
- Question one is,
how does James feel about outdoors
and like going outside?
- [Melissa] So, you obviously got him as a kitten,
'cause you were telling me that.
Do you know much about how he was found?
I wanna see what I- - I don't.
- You don't?
He lived outside for that first couple months of his life-
- Uh-huh (affirmative).
- And I don't think it was fun.
I think it was cold, and scary, and noisy,
and he's obviously a very skittish cat.
So, I think he enjoys like looking outside,
but I don't think he loves being outside.
- Yes, no, this is his favorite thing.
- [Melissa] Yeah.
- Like, by a long shot. - Yeah, he loves it.
Because he loves the activity.
- He loves it.
- And he likes the stimulation.
- Uh-huh.
- But he likes it from a safe place.
- Yes.
- He does not wanna venture- - He never even tries
to go out the door at all.
- No, he likes his familiar.
Does he sometimes, like,
sleep on the chair under the dining room table?
- Yeah, so there's been times
I'm like walking around- - And literally like under
while it's pushed under. - Yeah, he's like-
- He said you don't like that,
like he feels that you don't like when he's on those chairs.
- Oh, 'cause I can't find him!
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- So there'd been times I'm like
about to go to sleep, and then I'm like,
"James, where are you?"
and then I'm like, "Is he outside, where?"
like, what happened, I would start freaking out,
and then my eye will catch that chair, and I would like-
- And he's just like- - He's underneath there, yeah,
he's just letting me wander around.
- [Melissa] Yeah.
- The sillier questions that I have,
is has he ever seen a ghost?
In here?
- I think maybe yes, (Chantel laughs)
because the way you're just describing it to me,
it's like, when he sees a person...
- Yeah?
- Like, he normally hides, if he doesn't know them.
- Right.
- But like, when he sees, like a different kind of energy,
which I would assume is a ghost.
- Yeah.
- Because it's like something he doesn't see regularly,
and recognize, it's almost like he tries to
stare and figure out what it is before he leaves.
- Uh-huh.
- Is that what you've seen him do?
- I've seen him do that.
- Yeah.
- It was just me for an entire weekend,
just me and him, we watched
the full ten Ted Bundy tapes on Netflix.
- I can't, I can't even watch that.
- That night, we went to bed,
and then at like 1:00 AM in the morning,
he like shot up, and he like stayed by my feet,
but he was just staring at my bedroom door
that was like half-closed, and I was like,
"Is there anything out there?"
but everything was completely locked, untouched,
but he just stayed staring at the door
for a really long time.
- That's interesting, 'cause what he described to me
was like, kind of like that.
- It was clear that he just like, saw something.
- [Melissa] Yeah.
- That I couldn't see,
and he wound up like jumping off of the bed
and then going outside.
- It seems like he saw something.
- [Chantel] Yeah.
- Definitely animals can see and feel that-
- I believe that. - -you know?
- I believe that.
- Because they're open to it, like we're blocked.
- They're not muddled with like, jobs-
- Yeah! - -and stuff.
- Yeah! (Melissa laughs)
Yes, those jobs, yeah.
- Traffic. - Yeah!
He likes that you really make
like an effort to find things that he likes
'cause he can be picky. - Yes.
- So he's like, I don't like
everything that she brings home,
but when- - No!
- -but like when, like she brings home
something like that I like- - Uh-huh.
- -she'll buy more! - Yes!
- [Melissa] Like, so it's super exciting for him.
- Yes. - Is his food in a pouch too?
- It might just be the pouch that those come in.
- Oh! That they're inside of?
- Because this is the only treat that he's ever liked.
Do you wanna see the pouch that I may be like thinking of?
- Sure! - This like tuna-steak pouch.
- Yes! That's a treat. (Chantel laughs)
Okay! - Yeah, because-
- I've never seen these before, they're really cool!
- Well, you can't get them at a lot of places,
so I feel like, I drive around,
and then anytime I see them I'm like
"Oh, I'll get those for James."
- I'll take 10! - Yes.
Sometimes, um, we'll be petting him,
and he'll be like, loving it,
and just like taking all the pets,
and then will just turn around and try to bite,
why does he try to do that?
He'll like, chomp down on his other mom,
but he like doesn't chomp down on me.
and I, we don't know why. (Chantel laughs)
- Well, you're with him more. - Yeah.
- He kinda knows how you're gonna respond to things,
and I think his other mom, like he loves her too,
but I think she has a little bit more
of like a sporadic personality.
- [Chantel] Yeah.
- [Melissa] He's just showing me like,
her energy will change while she's petting him sometimes.
- Okay.
- Because she'll be like, freaking out about something,
but then he's like,
"I just feel her energy change, I'm like gah!"
and he like wants to get away.
- Okay, I mean, that all checks out to me, honestly.
(Melissa laughs)
- Does he have certain music that he likes more than others?
- So he's showing me, like he likes when you dance.
- Okay! (Chantel laughs)
- Because he'll watch you. - Yeah.
- So he likes, like music that you like dance to.
- Yeah, that' like every morning,
basically. - Okay!
- He just follows me around.
- He's following you, like dancing around-
- Yeah! (Chantel laughs)
- And he just likes,
so he's just like, that music makes me happy
'cause he likes watching you dance.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- So what makes me happy makes him happy.
- There you go!
- Does he ever miss us during the day?
- He said that he's rarely left
for a like, a super long time.
Like I think he's so safe in like these walls...
- [Chantel] Uh-huh.
- [Melissa] Like he never worries like,
that somebody's not coming back for him.
- [Chantel] Oh, that's good.
- And he said you also always tell him,
like you're like,
"James, I'll be back in an hour!"
(Chantel laughs) - I do too!
- "Mommy's going to the gym!" (Chantel laughs)
- Like you'll literally, like,
you tell him you're coming back.
- [Chantel] Right.
- So he knows you're coming back.
- Yeah, I always say like, "I'll be back later, I love you!"
(Chantel laughs)
Is he happy, and like,
is there something that I could be doing
to make him more happy?
- He's just basically saying that
he's like really glad you're his mom,
and that he really loves you,
and that he just really like loves
when you guys get to be alone and cuddle,
and he loves sleeping with you.
Like, he's showing me like,
just curling up next to you, - Yeah.
- [Melissa] And he feels like warm an safe,
and he just feels like he never thought
he would even like being around a person,
I mean, he just loves you so much,
that he just wants you to,
like he wants to say "Thank you,"
because you really changed his perception of people.
- [Chantel] Oh!
Oh, cute! (Melissa laughs)
- I know, like that's how he saw you!
(Chantel laughs)
- Thank you for talking with me.
- No problem!
- You're telling me all these things about my son.
I'm glad that he's happy.
- He's happy, he's very happy.
- Okay.
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