When pet psychic Beth Lee-Crowther reads an animal’s thoughts, it’s usually as a result of the proprietor has a burning query: Why does their canine refuse to show proper? Does considered one of my chickens have post-traumatic stress dysfunction? Might my cat object to being cloned? In my home, the query is posed by my teenage sons: ‘Which one of us does our dog like best?’
Welcome to Beth’s world. Her TV present begins this week and, though its principal stars are animals, viewers will study much more in regards to the individuals who personal them. (My lesson is that there are zero limits to kids’s sibling rivalry!)
Beth was simply 11 when she realised a pony was telling her about its dangerous again. Forty years later, she’s a full-time pet medium with common appearances on radio and TV, and a bestselling e book.
‘Imagine you are reading a novel, and the author paints a picture in your mind. I get an image like that,’ she says. ‘Sometimes it’s shifting, like a video, and there can be phrases, phrases, dates, a voice in my head. The animal has put it in there.’
Dogs are probably the most communicative, cats much less so. Beth has labored with numerous creatures: llamas, camels, parrots, snakes, geckos. ‘I assumed, “What’s a camel going to say?” ’ she says. ‘But I was blown away by their emotion. It was magical.
‘I think animals are talking to us humans all the time, it’s simply that we’re not processing it. Animals see speaking to me as a possibility to get one thing off their chest.
‘Imagine if you went around all day and nobody was listening to you, it would be very frustrating. So often it comes with a sense of relief, they can say what they need to say, and I pass that on to their owner.’
She’s by no means felt burdened by her present and, for all of the naysayers, she’s by no means cashed in on it. She doesn’t cost for her companies though, with spiralling demand, she admits she might need to begin.
‘I do it for the animals. It’s my mission to share, to show what I do is actual and attainable,’ she says.
Britain is a nation of animal-lovers with an estimated canine inhabitants of 12 million and roughly ten million cats, so maybe a pet psychic getting her personal TV present was solely foreseeable. Even for these of us with out second sight.
Beth begins with a ‘chicken reading’ in her hometown of Malvern, Worcestershire. Petal, a white leghorn, should be laying 280 eggs a 12 months however her nesting field is empty. Beth says the chicken tells her that she misplaced her greatest hen good friend in a fox attack and she or he’s too anxious to begin laying once more. Her proprietor reassures the hen, by way of Beth, that their electrical fence has been upgraded. We can solely hope Petal blossoms – although viewers don’t instantly discover out.
They do, nevertheless, see the result of Beth’s go to to Yogi, an enormous fluff ball of a canine which doesn’t very like leaving the home after which, when he does, will solely flip left.
Yogi has obtained the higher of canine trainers and psychologists, and, in a bid for a remedy has been experimented on with CBD oil derived from hashish. Now it’s right down to Beth. She says Yogi confides he’s been frightened by loud noises. His proprietor remembers how her final home was surrounded by fields used for capturing.
When Beth revisits weeks later, Yogi exits his home with out having to be dragged… and turns proper.
Beth is an incredible communicator, heat and empathetic. Having had animals since she says a black and white rabbit accosted her in a pet store and begged: ‘Take me home’, she understands the deep bond between house owners and pets.
With her specs perched on her head, good jackets and modest make-up, she’s a far cry from the stereotypical fairground psychic with a scarf, hoops and bejewelled fingers.
This is a lady who takes her work so critically she’s carried out a counselling course to assist the animals’ house owners, too.
Beth meets a Hertfordshire couple who deal with their rag doll cat Arya, 11, like a baby. They need Beth to ask Arya’s permission to clone her so she will dwell on after loss of life. Via Beth, Arya suggests to her house owners {that a} cloned cat may look the identical however would have a unique soul. It might not have been the reply the couple have been hoping for, but it surely’s definitely the wisest one.
Later, in Swansea, South Wales, Beth meets – and is bitten by – a ferret known as Misty. The animal eats heat pureed rooster thighs and is cradled like a child and sung lullabies. It has its personal bed room, embellished in lilac, and a cushion with its face on it. Misty’s proprietor is concerned that her pet is likely to be lonely and desire a ferrety companion.
Beth passes on the message that Misty would love extra mates. The similar recommendation might be directed on the ferret’s overly-devoted proprietor.
Beth is unbothered by individuals who don’t imagine in what she does. ‘They say it’s garbage after which seconds later they produce their cellphone with a photograph of their canine on it and say, “Can you tell me if he’s OK?”
‘You’ve obtained to be a bit gutsy to say you possibly can discuss to animals, however I’m passionate, and that provides me braveness.
‘I think everyone can talk to animals on some level – we’ve simply forgotten how.’
I ask her what she could be if she have been an animal. She jogs my memory a little bit of an Afghan Hound together with her cloud of lengthy, blonde hair.
‘No!’ she remonstrates. ‘I’d be a scruffy little Jack Russell – quirky, mischievous and decided to problem the accepted order.’
How did she do with Sarah’s less-than-obedient lurcher?
Beth: He is exceptionally delicate to noise.
How true! When I open the cutlery drawer, Khyber instantly slinks off to his basket below the desk in my workplace. He can’t even bear the noise of a rowdy household dinner and can solely return as soon as it’s over within the hope of a scraped plate.
Beth: He needs to bounce.
Embarrassing however true. Khyber’s endlessly hopping up on his hind legs and asking for a twirl.
Beth: He thinks he’s fairly effectively behaved.
No, he’s a sight hound. Show him a squirrel and he’s gone. He practises selective deafness in the case of any command he doesn’t need to obey.
Beth: His soul-mate is named Joan or Joanne.
No, it’s me. Or it higher had be since I’m the one who feeds and walks him.
lThe Pet Psychic: What’s Your Dog Thinking? is on Channel 5, on Tuesday, at 7pm.
