Animal Familiars

Baysage has said that I am not an "animal person".

Based on my extensive study of crap TV shows, in particular "Hoarders: Buried Alive!", I have come to the conclusion that animal pets are nothing more than a modern day update of the old mediaeval "familiar" of witches and sorcerers: back then, the black cat that accompanied the witch was her demonic "familiar".

Each and every show about the abject race of hoarders shows them clearly and undeniably surrounded  by animal familiars, stalking, hovering, sleeping, growling. There is no mistaking that fact that the poor schlubs that are hoarders are - in a sense - the "property" of these animals, and the animals resent every attempt to de-pack-rat the poor suffering soul.

In fact, I think the Hoarding Syndrome is a direct result of animals, probably caused by parasites carried by the various fauna infesting the place. Toxoplasma Packratitis no doubt.

I'm not sure whether "Ghost Hunters" has a lot of ghostly and spectral animals, but ditto if they do.

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