BabyHi! I'm Gina, mother of Baby; she's the beautiful black tabby who's picture you see in this article. If it weren't for Chris' communicative gifts, I truly believe that Baby would not be here sharing life with me today. Chris has not only been vital healing Baby physically, but was instrumental in healing my feline's deep emotional wounds. When it was all said and done, Chris' one reading with Baby has brought more healing than I ever thought imaginable.

I adopted six-month-old Baby from a shelter in Aug. 1998. She was wild and had difficulty bonding with me at first. Little by little I couldn't help but notice she would follow me around like a shadow. If I went upstairs she would go upstairs; if I went back downstairs she would go back downstairs. She was always watching me and made sure she had view of me at all times. Entering her second year of life, she was becoming more and more secure with me, sleeping on the corner of the bed, and occasionally sitting on my lap. I can't tell you how joyous it was watching her come out of her shell.

In spite of her wild features it was always obvious to me how bright she was. Sometimes in the morning, if I didn't shut the alarm off soon enough, she would tap me with her paw till I got up and stopped the horrid sound. She used this logic to her own advantage; if she wanted to go out on to the patio she would bang on the blinds till the racket would be so intolerable that whoever was closer to her would run to let her out. She also talks and knows how to relay to people what she wants. Its always well-placed chatter, just enough till she sees the person moving in the direction of what she wants. This is my baby and I couldn’t help but love her more and more each day.

Then in Dec. 2001 I decided to go on a seven-day cruise to Alaska. My girlfriend stayed in my apartment while I was gone and took care of Baby. When I came home seven days later, Baby was peeing blood. I took her to the vet and went through every urinary track medication known to cats, not to mention every method. Baby became immune to everything. She even had surgery to scrape out all the crystals inside of her. In spite of remaining on prescription cat food to prevent the crystals from coming back, they accumulated inside of her anyway. If she didn't have some rotating urinary track medication in her system along with prescription cat food she would urinate blood. Every two to three weeks the blood would start again and I was back at the veterinarian’s office changing to another medication that Baby had given a break for a while. I think the month was around April, 2003 and I was loosing hope of saving Baby. She wasn't lasting a week on a fresh rotated medication; that's when I saw Chris on WAVY t.v. 10 communicating with animals. It gave me some hope, but mostly I just wanted to tell Baby how much I loved her; I wanted her to know how sorry I was for what she's had to go through; I wanted to know if she wanted me to help put an end to her misery; did she want me to have her put to sleep? (I honestly thought that in a short while I'd have no choice). I wanted Chris help me say goodbye to Baby.

I made an appointment with Chris and she was eager to help after hearing the seriousness of Baby's condition. I told Baby we were going to take a trip and talk with someone who might be able to help her. She went from purring to immediately hissing at me and jumped off the ledge from where I was petting her. I didn't think much of it and attributed it to having a miserable cat. The following morning we arrived at Chris' home. We went into a very warm loving room with Chris. Baby was traumatized being out of her environment. After Chris started talking with her, Baby curled up in a small ball beside me and hardly moved. Chris told me Baby wanted to know whom the orange cat was that belonged to my girlfriend who stayed at my house for a while. Then Chris told me that Baby said I let her know I was taking her to meet Chris. Baby said that I told her she could trust Chris but she didn't believe me because that's what I said before I took her to the vet and they hurt her. She described an event where she had come home limping from a girl grabbling her leg too hard. I remembered her limping but thought it was probably a shot that she'd had. Then Chris went on to describe my girlfriend who housesat for me with the orange cat. Chris asked me if I knew that girl was violently attacked from a man she let into my apartment. I knew something had upset my cat sitter friend but didn't realize that it was so violent. She told me that Baby saw this much larger girl than myself get violently attacked so how could I, being so much smaller, possibly protect myself from a violent attack. Baby was constantly scared I was going to get hurt or killed and was making herself sick. She wanted to protect me but felt she couldn't. Baby didn't want me having the windows open anymore and wanted me only to let men in that I knew really well. Chris told her that I'm really careful and she didn't have to worry anymore about me getting attacked. She told baby how she herself healed from a home invasion and that Baby to can heal too without living in anxiety all the time.

I could go on and on with all the things Chris had told me that she honestly shouldn't have known. But the real miracle is that I have a cat that I thought was on her deathbed come home from our session with Chris purring endlessly for days after that and cuddled right up next to me. I'm really happy to say she is no longer on medication. She sits on me all the time now and snuggles next to me when I sleep. She is constantly purring and her anxiety has improved tenfold. She's even improved her behavior towards strange houseguests. As for my girlfriend, I approached her with what I had learned about her violent attack from the session with Chris. She broke down and told me of the violent rape she experienced and am happy to say that through Chris talking with Baby and acknowledging what happened has given her the strength to finally report it.

Thank you for reading our story. Baby and I will always be eternally grateful to Chris for sharing her precious gifts with us and healing our little family.