By Tim Binnall
In an odd story out of Bolivia, the country's state-run airline is under fire for having hired a psychic to help search for a cat that they had lost. According to a local media report, the strange saga started in early December when Andrea Iturre's pet feline, Tito, went missing right before the pair were set to depart from the Capitán Oriel Lea Plaza Airport in the city of Tarija. Since the airport was responsible for the cat managing to escape as it had been in their care at the time, the airline searched the facility for a week and even went so far as to enlist a medium who claims that she can communicate with animals.
Describing the psychic as an "interspecies communicator," Iturre explained that the purported paranormal pet detective "works with the energies, so she can comment or let me know what energy Tito is with, if he is alive, if he is fine." Amazingly, this was reportedly echoed by Bolivia's vice-minister for consumers, Jorge Silva, who indicated that the psychic claims that she can "talk to Tito to find out where he is, if he is afraid or hidden or if something more serious has happened.” Remarkably, Iturre revealed that the medium's powers are apparently not bound by time and space as she actually operates out of the city of La Paz and has been sending her insights by way of a messaging app.
Alas, the medium has been unable to specifically determine where in the airport Tito might be, though Iturre says that animal communicator feels that he is still alive despite having disappeared over a month ago.To her credit, Iturre has continued looking for her cat this entire time, even after the airline called off the search after only a week. "I do not forget and I will not stop until I find him," his heartbroken owner declared, "it is my main mission to find Tito." Meanwhile, news of the airline's unorthodox approach to finding the cat has drawn sharp criticism from people online who consider the state paying for an animal psychic to be a wasteful spending based on superstition.