At first, there was nothing unusual about Celia Melamed's new client. His English mastiff was dying, so he hired her to read its mind. But when she met the man with the messy hair, he kept apologising for his casual outfit.
"He told me, 'Sorry for being dressed like this; I'm always in a suit on television'," Melamed recalled. "I don't have a television, so I had no idea what he was talking about."
The man was Javier Milei, at the time a TV pundit in Argentina known for railing against the government. The mastiff was Conan, soon to be Argentina's most famous dog. And Melamed, by extension, was about to become the nation's most well-known animal psychic.
A few years later, Milei was elected Argentina's president, and Conan became a symbol of his brash campaign, as well as the genetic model for the handful of clones that are now the nation's first dogs.
In that first encounter about a decade ago, Conan was on his deathbed, and Melamed said she was communicating with him via an energy she felt in her chest. She said she relayed Milei's message that he was desperately trying to save the dog.