Medium Zoe McDonald reconnects and reunites families including Hunter the beagle

The psychic who helped find the missing beagle at Mount Barker this week shares her story and offers a few predictions: on COVID, Meghan and the prospect of travel overseas.

Psychic Zoe McDonald with her dog Bella Boo. Picture: Brenton Edwards

Guided by the spirits of lost loved ones, medium Zoe McDonald reconnects families.

This week, she helped a four-legged family member who needed to find his way home.

When Mount Barker woman Michelle Buckley launched a social media campaign to help find her missing beagle, Hunter, Ms McDonald just knew she had to help.

“I was notified through Facebook and Instagram, by two clients at first and then, within about five minutes, I just got non-stop private messages from about 12 clients and then Michelle,” Ms McDonald said.

“So one of my clients had seen the post through social media and had said online ‘Why don’t you contact Zoe and see what she can do’, because I found her cat.”

Initially Ms Buckley sent Ms McDonald aerial photos from the search area, as well as information on Hunter and her other beagle, Lexi, who had initially gone missing with Hunter, but had since found her way home.

Psychic Zoe McDonald with her dog Bella Boo. Picture: Brenton Edwards

But on Sunday Ms McDonald, a self-confessed “fur mumma”, decided to search the area in person, driven by “instinct”.

“I’ve got little doggies and everyone knows I’m a big softie,” Ms McDonald said.

“I don’t know how to explain it. I just woke up and said to my friend, ‘we’re going to Mount Barker’.”

Hunter went missing with Ms Buckley’s other rescue dog, Lexi, on March 1 from their Mount Barker home.

The family launched an extensive social-media campaign to find the dogs, offering a $3000 reward.

Initially, Ms Buckley thought pet thieves had stolen the beagles, but that theory seemed unlikely when Lexi arrived home on Thursday afternoon on her own.

Mount Barker resident Michelle Buckley holding a very exhausted Lexi, her 6-year-old Beagle, who returned home on her own. Picture: Emma Brasier

Ms McDonald was able to comfort Ms Buckley, telling her Hunter was still alive and well, just tangled in netting or fishing line near a fence and some red bushes.

“She told me ‘he’s OK, his leg is trapped and Lexi has come home to tell you’,” Ms Buckley said. “It reassured me, but also worried me that he was trapped and I couldn’t find him.”

The medium’s words were soon shown to be true – Hunter was eventually found trapped in netting on a Mount Barker Summit vineyard, with little more than a few grazes and scabs on his nose.

Ms McDonald, 46, said she was guided by Ms Buckley’s dead mother-in-law, who wore violet perfume and spoke in a soft English accent. The “dear lady” showed her around three areas, that turned out to be Hunter’s favourite walking routes.

Ms Buckley said she received messages in the form of sensory information (sight, sound, smell) that can help in “remote viewing” to find something that is lost including missing persons.

“Finding animals is not necessarily my thing, although I have found quite a few animals,” Ms McDonald said.

“I’m a medium, so I contact spirits, so people usually come to me when they’ve lost loved ones.

“They will just pop in and talk, just like you and I, and I don’t use any divinity tools, so no Tarot, runes, nothing like that at all. Basically I read your eyes, your aura, your energy and your voice, but I don’t need anything. All I can do is just hear your voice, and I can tune in.”

Beagles Lexi (left) and Hunter, back home, with Jack, 12, after wandering off from their Mount Barker home. Picture: Sarah Reed

Some clients also asked for a reading of their past, present and future, she said.

At the moment, lots of people wanted to know when the COVID pandemic would be over and when they could travel overseas again.

A FEW PREDICTIONS

The COVID-19 Pandemic

Generally speaking, COVID is still hanging around for another three years in Australia. There’s one more wave to come in South Australia in the next six months, or in about six months’ time, around October/November I felt there was going to be an issue with COVID that might see South Australia having to be, not completely locked down, but definitely a strong wave of COVID. Very strong restrictions.

The prospect of travel overseas

I have a lot of clients that are asking me, “When can I travel?”. I think there will be small windows of opportunity at the end of this year for some Asian countries, maybe like the Philippines, Singapore, or Bali.

And then next year, October/November, is when I see small, small windows of opportunity for travel to the UK and America, small windows of opportunity.

Italy, Greece, will be more like three years. You know we’ve all got friends in corporate places that are allowed to travel. But I definitely think it’s going to take three years before we really get a full lift of restrictions to do with overseas travel.

Meghan Markle and the Royal Family 

I definitely feel there’s going to be a few photographs coming out in the next two to three weeks, I think there’s going to be a few photos in media. You know how they’ve been talking about certain racial comments to do with baby? I think in three weeks time there’s going to be a few photos that I think is going to create a huge media sensation, you know, and that is going to spark a very, very strong public opinion.

I don’t know when baby’s due but I also think there’s going to be something to do with baby, I think there’s something quite significant about baby’s looks. So there is something like a birthmark or something that’s going to stand out, that’s going to cause a sensation. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. But I think in the next three weeks, there’s going to be photos to do with Meghan’s past or family, past members.

And also, so it’s like when you have photos of her past like to do with her childhood and then you’ve got photos and you do a comparison of the people that she’s sort of hanging out with now, and I feel there’s a few inappropriate pictures that are going to come out that has more to do with racial issues, to do with baby you know along those lines. That is going to be inappropriate but it’s going to cause a very big political sensation so almost to the point of where a specific family member is going to have to make a very public speech. So someone of the royal family is going to have to do one of those. Like, “can you guys stop making racial comments”, I feel like there’s going to be someone in a very strong role of influence, like one of the family members is going to have to make a statement publicly by saying that enough’s enough.