Role: Herself
Episodes: All
Original air dates: 22nd June - 24th August, 2003
Network: ITV

"Talking to Animals" follows the work of Sarah Fisher as she uses the Tellington Touch - a unique approach to working with animals. Sarah is the UK's leading TTouch practitioner. Anthony Head, Sarah's partner, appears in some of the episodes. The series is produced by Tigress Productions.

Narrated by Anthony Head
Edited by Dave Thrasher, Darren Flaxstone, Rama Bowley & Lee Buers
Researcher Natalie Salmon
Music David Poore
Production Manager Lynn Sinclair
Directed By Rob Sullivan
Executive Producers Andrew Jackson & James Garrett
Series Producer & Director Karen Walsh.

There were nine half hour episodes. Please visit our episode guide.
All pictures are © Tigress Productions 2003 and are used with permission from Tigress Productions.

The series charts the progress of various animals and meets the owners and pets attending one-day intensive workshops

Episodes feature the centre, construction of a Barn Owl unit, various horses, aggressive rabbits and dogs, cats that dislike being petted, and Lorenzo the Llama.

Sarah coaxes a shy baby giant tortoise out of its shell by stroking it gently with a paintbrush,

and helps Portia the pot-bellied pig who won't allow anyone near her feet.

In episode 5 Sarah helps a horse called Tree, a pair of nervous rats, an aggressive five-year-old terrier and a bellicose North Ronaldsay ram at the Robinswood Hill Farm in Gloucester.

In episode 6, Sarah attends to an aggressive three-legged iguana called Peggy who doesn't like strangers,

a violent cockerel called Barry, and a snake which has not eaten for six months.

Sarah works with Nikita, who comes from the Mayhew Animal Home. Nikita was reactive to being touched, and also to cats, and responded really well to the work.

Thanks to Pat for pictures
All pictures are © Tigress Productions 2003 and are used with permission from Tigress Productions. Not to be reproduced elsewhere.