Marmite, a Jack Russell Terrier

Animal psychic reunites owner with pet a week after dog goes missing
The Daily Mail
12 May 2008

A dog trapped shivering underground in a tiny hole has been rescued by his frantic owner - after a psychic pinpointed where he was.

Ruff trip: Marmite the Jack Russell had been missing for a week before her owner enlisted the help of an animal psychic

Marmite the Jack Russell had been missing for a week when Nikki Newcombe decided to turn to a medium for help. Sales manager Nikki, 35, had been desperately hunting for the ten-year-old pet around her home in Brownhills, Walsall after he disappeared last Tuesday.

At one point during the week-long search she had even hired hi-tech gadgetry to see if he had become trapped in a rabbit hole. But despite days of effort she had failed to uncover any clues to the Marmite's whereabouts - or whether he was even still alive.

Ms Newcombe said: "We had thermal imaging equipment brought out in an effort to find him, we were that worried.

"We even dug holes out that we had found in case he was there - just searching high and low for him."

Nikki, who lives on a farm with her partner and baby daughter Erin, said Marmite had gone missing after he had been let out in the morning. She looked high and low for him but failed to find him so decided to use other unconventional methods to track her pet down. It was then she phoned animal psychic Pea Horsley, who says she is able to telepathically talk to any species.

As Nikki spoke to the 35-year-old medium, who is based 100 miles away in London, she was told that Marmite was wedged in a man made hole with water at the bottom and concrete around it. The mum-of-one carefully pieced together the information in her head and started along the route from the house Pea had described to her. Arriving at the locks of a nearby disused canal a mile from her home, she looked around and instantly realised where her dog was trapped.

Nikki said: "She explained to us the route he had taken from my house and detailed landmarks he had passed on the way.

"She said that Marmite was trapped in a hole, but was very careful to say it definitely wasn't a rabbit hole.

"The medium said the hole was man made and my dog had got stuck in there.

"She then said that his paws were wet and there was water down there. When she described that to me I knew where Marmite was.

"I just followed the trail she had given me and I was there within an hour after a whole week of fruitless searching.

"The place where he was trapped looked like the entrance to a mine shaft, but very narrow.

"It only went about a foot horizontally inside before it comes to a deep drop down."

In deep: Firefighters managed to rescue Marmite from this tiny underground hole

Peering over the edge and straining to look in the darkness, Nikki realised she could see Marmite at the bottom, scratching at the sides trying to get out.

She said: "The dog was jumping up and down, really excited to see us, hopping and barking - obviously keen to get out.

"He had lost quite a bit of weight because of the lack of food, but there was water down there so he was lucky in a way."

A rescue attempt began in earnest as West Midlands Fire Bridgade was called to try and free the trapped animal. Firefighters managed to lower Marmite's basket into the chamber inside the canal sluice gate and coax the dog into getting inside. He was then lifted to safety and reunited with his owner.

Pea, who is one of just 20 animal communicators in the UK, said tracing animals was just one aspect of her job. She said people would send her pictures of their pet and she would look into their eyes to connect with them and intuitively find out where they were.

She said: "Just by connecting with Marmite I could get a sense that that he was still alive, but he was trapped somewhere.

"I knew he wasn't down a rabbit hole, but instead some kind of man made structure.

"He felt cold, it was dark and he felt quite exhausted.

"I know it certainly helped Nikki to find him quickly, it is probably one of the quickest I have ever found."

And Nikki admitted her brush with the psychic world had convinced her all astral and telepathic was a reality. She added: "I was really getting to my wits' end with worrying about where Marmite could have been.

"We did all the logical things to track him down, so we decided to resort to other means.

"I definitely believe in the psychic world now - it was incredible the way he was found."

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-565965/Animal-psychic-reunites-owner-pet-week-dog-goes-missing.html#

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