About Dr.Cathy Seabrook
Dr. Cathy Seabrook was born and raised on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario, Canada. From the time she knew what a veterinarian was, she wanted to be one. Academic preparation for vet college required a daunting three maths and three
sciences in the final year of high school, and this altered her path momentarily into a year in Fine Art at the University of Guelph. The animals had other plans for her however, as the summer after first year arts her beloved pony Ginger fell ill to an undiagnosed disease and died, and this powerfully changed her life course back to Guelph into Agricultural Sciences, where she made up the required courses, applied and was accepted into Veterinary Medicine at the Ontario Veterinary College. She was the first Islander to attend the Ontario Veterinary College. During her student years she received twice the award for Clinical Orientation ( handling savvy), and the award for top surgeon in her class (all those neat stitches!). Dr. Seabrook graduated with honours from OVC in 1981.
Dr. Seabrook worked in various Equine and Small Animal practices as an associate for 12 years before starting her own practice, The Island Animal Hospital, a Small Animal and Equine Facility, in Mindemoya, Ontario, her home town, which she owned and operated for 18 years.
The year 2005 was the beginning of the end of regular veterinary medicine for her, when she met a fellow student at a B.C. horsemanship clinic who had used an animal communicator to talk with her horse about training. During her years of practice Dr. Seabrook had done several horse rescues, and one horse, Dante, had pneumonia when she bought him, and this catapulted his inherited small airway disease (SAD) into a state of incapacitation, where he was unable to breathe normally for eight months every year, and she had tried every standard and non-standard treatment for him, to no avail.
Prior to this time, she had considered animal communication to be general intuition, at best a lucky guess, and at worst airy-fairy nonsense. But because of her horse, she asked her fellow student, “Do you think they know what medicine they need?” Her friend replied there was only one way to find out, and this began her research into animal communicators by reading several books by different authors on the subject. Still unsure, but open to see if it might be true, Dr. Seabrook made and sent her list of questions, with name and description of her horse, and just her general address to the communicator in Connecticut that her friend had used. No picture was required and no personal visit. Dr. Seabrook mentioned only his cough, and no other information about him, whatsoever.
When she got her answers back, she knew the communicator had the right horse, describing his explosive emotional state precisely. The answers were for the most part predictable, entertaining, heartwarming and fascinating. It was the body-scan that sold her completely. The communicator picked up on Dante’s right shoulder being higher than his left (clubfoot issues that right foreleg), and that his molars needed balancing, especially the right side. Dr. Seabrook had an equine dentist drive seven hours one-way to address Dante’s teeth, and discovered he had a wave-mouth on the right side, with huge cheek ulcers and slanted incisors to match. There was no going back to normal veterinary medicine after this. Also, it sent Dr. Seabrook to Wisconsin to train as an Equine Dentist (not available in Canada). Life and general practice changed for her, her patients, her animals, her staff and clients.
In 2009 Dr. Seabrook took her first formal training with Amelia Kincade in England. In the Fall of 2009 she began formal training out of Animal Spirit Network in Chicago, and by December 2011 she had completed level 5, the final level before training as a teacher.
In April 2011 Dr. Seabrook sold her beloved practice to pursue Animal Communication full-time. She resides on her farm on Manitoulin Island with her family.
