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The Washington Post reported in August that there are 3,000 pet therapists in the U.S., including 50 fully certified as animal behaviorists, and that they charge fees ranging from $150 to $400 for three-hour sessions. Said one pet therapist, “There’s a reason for everything [animals] do.” Said a skeptical veterinarian, “The pets aren’t crazy. The humans are crazy.”
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In June Stuart Bowyer, a University of California astronomer in charge of a year-old project that has monitored 30 trillion radio signals from outer space, said that so far, 164 of those signals are “unexplained.” However, he said it was “very unlikely” that any of them came from extraterrestrials.
High school soccer coach Jesus Valencia Gomez, 45, was arrested in Whittier, California, in September and charged with practicing medicine without a license. According to sheriff’s deputies, Gomez told a 24-year-old woman she had cancerous tumors on her neck and head and would need surgery. He allegedly met her in a motel room, anesthetized her, shaved her head, and bandaged her. The woman didn’t notify authorities until several days later, when she discovered that she had no scar under the bandages. In Gomez’s apartment were medical and dental supplies and two types of business cards, one identifying him as a doctor and the other as a dentist.
