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The Cat Whisperer

Working with animals full time wasn’t on Canadian Lynn Overhill’s agenda when she began a career in corporate management.  After finishing her undergraduate studies at Boston University, she entered the AIESEC student organization and participated in an internship which led her to Sydney.  She traveled the world for a few years in the management of AIESEC/as a training and motivating ambassador and progressed on to corporate marketing positions with large multinationals like Unilever and IBM.  Her work took her to Belgium, New Zealand, Germany, the United States (Connecticut), Singapore, and finally back to Sydney, where she settled.

Her decision to settle down coincided with a conscious decision to become spiritually oriented, and focus on developing sensitivities toward understanding others which she had always been aware that she possessed.  Her efforts at channeling these skills was aided by the frequent visits of her next door neighbors:  two cats whose owners spent a lot of time away.  The cats’ ‘meowing’ became clearer to Lynn as they spent more time together.  She learned from them that one cat really loved her and wanted to be with her all the time and the other wanted more freedom to come and stay in her house as he pleased.

Lynn went on to finish a diploma in Remedial Therapies and Massage, and began a practice as a clairvoyant/psychic and counselor with people.  While human clairvoyants and psychics often practice validating and listening with their friends, in order to work with animals, it’s pretty good one-stop shopping to go to the zoo.  From 1995-6 Lynn spent three years validating her skills by visiting many of the zoos in Australia and in 1997 began her work with domestic animals as well.   She is one of 15+ full time animal communicators in Australia.

Her work with animals has propelled her on to Australian national television, radio and print media.  I found out about her through a friend whose friends used her to mediate a dispute between two cats, a male and female, who had been ‘adopted’ at different times.  In this case, the female was the aggressor.  She said she just didn’t like the other cat “because he came along and got himself adopted.  And he’s so ugly, just look at him!”  Lynn’s solution for these two felines was that the female agree to cease her acts of violence against her ‘brother’.  The cats stopped fighting for six months, then one day the mayhem broke out again.  Lynn was called back to the family to find out what happened.  When she said to the female cat, “I thought we agreed that you wouldn’t fight him anymore!”  The female responded simply, “I forgot.”