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Psychic Becky Willoughby uses her amazing gift to reunite pet owners with their lost and stolen animals
Standing in the woman’s garden, I concentrated on the photo of her missing ginger cat, Nyla, and felt myself being pulled towards the fence.
‘This way,’ I told her, before an image flashed through my mind. It was of the inside of a shed, stuffed full of garden equipment. It felt dusty and difficult to breath and I could see a glimmer of something metallic.
I knew that Nyla was showing me that she was trapped in a metal shed. Other information was coming through, too. The garden, neat but with an overgrowing hedge, then numbers… the house number of her hiding place.
‘This is where Nyla is,’ I said, giving the woman the address.
It was June 2019 and I’d been called by Nyla’s owner to help find her after she’d gone missing near my home in Exeter, Devon, nine days earlier. As a psychic specialising in missing pets, I’d helped reunite hundreds of animals with their owners and was confident we could get her home safely.
Sure enough, within hours, I’d received a call to say that she’d been found at the address I’d given, after accidentally becoming trapped in a neighbour’s metal shed. She’d survived by licking condensation off the sides and had been found just in the nick of time.
I’ve been psychic ever since I was a child. At family gatherings, my dad, Andy, and I would entertain our guests with our favourite party trick. He would think of a number or colour, concentrating on it really hard, while I’d use my psychic powers to read his mind.
But it was with animals that my connection was strongest. It was as if they could ‘talk’ to me. Whenever I was sad or lonely, I’d have a cuddle with my Springer Spaniel, Polo, who seemed to understand me like no human ever could.
Later, as an adult in my 20s, I decided to use my psychic gift to help others and started giving oneto-one psychic readings to people. I switched to helping pets after a friend asked me to look at her poorly horse, which I correctly sensed had a spinal problem the vet had missed.
Somewhere along the way I realised I could connect with animals remotely, which led to putting my abilities to good use – to help find missing pets.
It had been something I’d done as a child without realising. Our other family dog, Fly, was always escaping from the garden and I’d see flashes in my mind of a dusty path or local landmark and know exactly where to find him. At the time, I hadn’t understood that this information was coming to me from connecting with
