DIANA (1981-1998) was a wise, beautiful, and stubborn calico cat. Orphaned at a very young age, she was taken to a cat shelter, where Miri met and adopted her. An excellent huntress and devoted friend to her beloved cat companion, Jason, and to her humans, Miri and Wayne, Diana came to take the goodness of her life for granted until her friend Jason died.
After losing Jason, Diana became deeply depressed and nearly died herself from a diabetic crisis the following year. With much time on her paws as she was recovering, Diana grappled deeply with issues of meaning and purpose in living.
	Diana helped teach Miri to hear her telepathically as she shared her story for this book. Most of the content of Diana’s story was communicated when she was fifteen and sixteen years of age. Diana died of kidney failure at the age of sixteen years seven months.   “My friendship with Diana was truly a gift. She gave information so graciously about her family and how she felt about the many changes she had to accept. …Through your stories about Diana’s love, courage, and grace, we will all be uplifted by her soul and essence.” Samantha Khury, Interspecies Communicator
“I knew as soon as I met (Diana) that she was a very old soul, who had come to teach her parents and me more about the eternal journey of life. She was a very beautiful feline with soulful eyes…She had many physical and emotional challenges on her journey and through it all she chose to move forward as a student and teacher…She was a little lioness in a cat suit (who) did not know…giving up…She will always have a special place in my heart. Her lesson to me was ‘Do your best and don’t take it personally’.” Stephen Blake, D.V.M., ThePetWhisperer.com

MIRI is Diana’s human companion. She initially learned about the possibility of telepathic communication with animals through seeing Samantha Khury, a professional interspecies communicator, work with Diana and Jason. Miri’s fledgeling ability to telepathically communicate with and “listen” to an animal developed during her work with Diana on their book. Although Miri also learned from a number of other inter-species communicators including Penelope Smith, Sue Goodrich, and Brigitte Noel, Diana was her primary teacher.

Miri feels her work with Diana was an expansion and deepening of listening skills she had already developed and used in her work as a psychologist. She is in private practice as a psychologist in San Diego, and especially enjoys working with people who want to further free and develop their creativity and deepen their spiritual awareness.   Miri can be reached at miri@aCatStory.com