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Foreword

FOR AS LONG as I can remember I have wanted to work with animals. So when I stepped out of the Royal Veterinary College, London, in the dim and distant days of 1973, a qualified veterinary surgeon, I had already realized my life’s ambition. I had trained for five years, I had letters after my name and I thought I could cure every pet of every disease under the sun. Little did I know that the real learning process was only just beginning.

Within a few years I had become reasonably proficient at the mechanics of being a vet. I could carry out all but the most intricate operations efficiently and speedily, I could prescribe drugs, I could diagnose as well as anybody else. But I began to feel something was missing. There were patients that simply couldn’t be diagnosed, despite exhaustive investigations, there were patients for whom drugs had more damaging side-effects than benefits and there were patients that simply refused to respond to treatment that should have worked. It struck me that pets were not little machines that all behaved in the same way to the same treatment. They were living, breathing, sentient beings that sometimes went their own way.

It was at this point that I discovered the alternative world of therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medicine and homoeopathy – a world where the feelings, emotions and character of the patient were equally as important as their physical symptoms. At last I could treat my patients as whole beings rather than as collections of body parts. Within a few years I had closed my practice and opened a centre to treat pets with natural therapies only. Joining me at the centre were other pet therapists – an osteopath, a physiotherapist and a healer.

The healer, Charles Siddle, opened my eyes to a completely new aspect of animal treatment. He just seemed to ‘know’ what was wrong with pets. When I asked him how, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, ‘Oh, they just tell me.’

Around this time I went to a lecture given by the scientist Rupert Sheldrake about a book he had just written, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. Rupert had undertaken months of painstaking work on this subject and proved beyond any reasonable doubt that some dogs really are telepathic and know, amongst other things, exactly when their owners are coming home.

So, if dogs are telepathic and can read our thoughts, why not the other way round? Why shouldn’t we be able to read the thoughts of animals and communicate with them?

My own journey of discovery about the treatment of animals from ‘veterinary mechanic’ to ‘holistic therapist’ has been endlessly fascinating. Pea Horsley’s journey in becoming an animal communicator, from doubting through training to believing to success, has followed the same pattern. This book details that journey. When you have finished it, you may not believe a man can fly, but you’ll certainly believe a woman can talk to a rabbit.

Richard Allport,

BVetMed, VetMFHom, MRCVS,

author of Natural Healthcare for Pets, Heal Your Dog theNatural Way and Heal Your Cat the Natural Way