[Stoat]

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Wash. cat saves elderly owner from smoky fire

[Stoat]

[sionnsar]

Wednesday ping

[Krankor]

The cat was only trying to save itself. Cats and giraffes are selfish.

[lilycicero]

Seriously...Derek Sheppard wrote this...I thought he was just a brain surgeon on Grey’s. Who knew?

[billorites]

Most cats I know would watch you be consumed by flames with complete indifference, lick their fur for a bit, and then curl up to sleep on your warm ashes.

[meowmeow]

Wow - I had a similar experience years ago, except it was just a malfunctioning alarm, there was no fire. But I was so exhausted from working on my house all day that I woke up a little, thought, "oh, it's a siren," and went back to sleep.

Suddenly I had two cats on my chest, meowing and pawing at my face. Then I did wake up to quite a scare.

I don't think they were trying to save my life as much as say, "TURN THAT DAMN THING OFF!"

[ottbmare]

We had a major house fire about two years ago.

Our magnificent, noble young hero dog, with his superb nose and acute hearing, kept snoring until I woke him up and carried him out of the house. I really wanted to be able to tell the story of how this glorious animal saved our lives, but No. He was useless. That's okay; we love him anyway.

[MichiganMan]

Yeah, that "appears" all sweet and good etc. But instead of following the easy angle of the cat heroically waking its owner to save her life, has anyone considered that its more likely that the cat realized that the only one that knew how to open the door was that person thing on the bed?

Smart cat does not necessarily equal heroic cat.

[Malesherbes]

“the cat’s name was not immediately available”

T. S. Eliot said a cat has three names:
(1) the name people call the cat;
(2) the name other cats call the cat;
(3) the name the cat calls himself.

[beagleone]

Turns out an ordinary housecat is far more qualified than our president. At least the cat accomplished something.

[Doohickey]

Bremerton woman...

When did they stop calling them "Bremalos"?

[diamond6]

I love cats!!!

[skepsel]

The cat was probably checking to see if the lady was dead yet and he could begin eating her.

[PhilDragoo]

Priorities Straight Ping

[peggybac]

Great story. My cats would just hide in the closet. They were worthless earthquake detectors when I lived in LA.

[Vicki]

Cats can make good “watchdogs”. Twice my cats have alerted me to strangers making their way through the woods into my neighbor’s yard. Years back I also had a cat attack a boyfriend who was threatening me.

[pbmaltzman]

I don't care how selfish cats are. If one of mine pawed my face and woke me up in time to escape a fire, that cat would be my HEROINE (my current three are all female) in my book, and she could have her favorite treats forever.

It wouldn't matter to me that the cat might only be thinking of herself; if a side effect of her selfishness was that I escaped death by fire and/or smoke inhalation, that would be good enough for me.

In such a case, I'd be more than happy to be her staff; in fact, I'll admit it--I'd be more than happy to be her grateful SLAVE for the rest of her natural life (well, I already am).