CAT SAVES FAMILY!

Oh yes! This is for all you nay-sayers--cats are no good, cats shouldn't be inside, blah, blah!

Well it's a good thing this 14 yr old cat was inside to wake up her owners 'cause she saved their lives! That's right--saved their lives! She isn't the first to do it, but it bears repeating!

Winnie, the 14 yr old cat who belonged to Cathy and Eric Keesling, New Castle, IN, woke them after the gasoline powered water pump in the basement filled the house with carbon monoxide fumes, by nudging Cathy's ear and memowing loudly!

“It was a crazy meow, almost like she was screaming,” said Cathy, who hesitated to get up until Winnie’s caterwauling and jumping persisted.

When she finally climbed from bed, she realized she was nauseous and dizzy and couldn’t awaken her husband. Because he had undergone minor neck surgery the previous day, she decided to call 911 but was so disoriented she had trouble dialing.

Paramedics found the couple’s 14-year-old son, Michael, unconscious on the floor near his bedroom. The Keeslings were taken from the home in oxygen masks, treated for carbon monoxide poisoning and soon recovered.

Cathy Keesling said Winnie acted similarly last summer when tornadoes tore through the area, 45 miles east of Indianapolis.

“I really believe cats can sense these kind of things,” she said.

And she was screaming! She was saying get up outta this bed and get my precious kittyself out of this poison! Move it! Move it!

Yay and kitty-treats for Winnie! ;)