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Cat saves baby's life
I just saw this story at:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/16042006/...by-s-life.html I've pasted it below in case it doesn't stay at that URL for long: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cat saves baby's life Sat Apr 15, 09:27 PM EST BERLIN (Reuters) - A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday. "The cat is a hero," Cologne police spokesman Uwe Beier said. "Its loud meowing got the attention of the homeowner and saved the baby from suffering life-threatening hypothermia. The homeowner opened door to see why the cat was making so much noise and discovered the newborn." Beier said the boy was taken to hospital at 5 a.m. on Thursday, when overnight temperatures fell toward zero, and had suffered only mild hypothermia. He said there was no indication of what happened to the boy's mother. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Rhino |
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"Rhino" wrote in news:iGs0g.104
: Cat saves baby's life Sat Apr 15, 09:27 PM EST That's really amazing. Too bad we don't know more about the cat. Chak -- In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society, we insist they be cheerleaders. --Steve Allen |
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On 2006-04-16, Chakolate penned:
"Rhino" wrote in news:iGs0g.104 : Cat saves baby's life Sat Apr 15, 09:27 PM EST That's really amazing. Too bad we don't know more about the cat. Or the mom =/ -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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Rhino wrote:
I just saw this story at: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/16042006/...by-s-life.html I've pasted it below in case it doesn't stay at that URL for long: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Cat saves baby's life Sat Apr 15, 09:27 PM EST BERLIN (Reuters) - A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday. Sad for the baby, good for the cat! At least the mother had the courtesy to abandon the child on a doorstep rather than putting the infant in a trash dumpster. Jill |
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Chakolate wrote: "Rhino" wrote in news:iGs0g.104 : Cat saves baby's life Sat Apr 15, 09:27 PM EST That's really amazing. Too bad we don't know more about the cat. When people can abandon their own children so callously, why is anyone suprised when they do the same thing with kittens and puppies? Chak -- NewsGuy.Com 30Gb $9.95 Carry Forward and On Demand Bandwidth |
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jmcquown wrote: Rhino wrote: I just saw this story at: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/16042006/...by-s-life.html I've pasted it below in case it doesn't stay at that URL for long: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Cat saves baby's life Sat Apr 15, 09:27 PM EST BERLIN (Reuters) - A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday. Sad for the baby, good for the cat! At least the mother had the courtesy to abandon the child on a doorstep rather than putting the infant in a trash dumpster. Perhaps Germany is a tad more civilized than parts of the U.S.? (I've seen a few "Law and Order SVU" episodes dealing with such things, but I assumed they were fiction.) Jill -- NewsGuy.Com 30Gb $9.95 Carry Forward and On Demand Bandwidth |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Perhaps Germany is a tad more civilized than parts of the U.S.? (I've seen a few "Law and Order SVU" episodes dealing with such things, but I assumed they were fiction.) Hmm. I don't think anyone would have said that 65-70 years ago... Joyce |
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Rhino wrote:
I just saw this story at: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/16042006/...by-s-life.html I wonder whose kitty it was? Joyce |
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the way I was read it it was the homeowners or they would have said a stray
cat meowing loudly awoke neighbors wrote in message ... Rhino wrote: I just saw this story at: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/16042006/...by-s-life.html I wonder whose kitty it was? Joyce |
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Rhino wrote:
I just saw this story at: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/16042006/...by-s-life.html Whoops, I also meant to say that I was watching the Canadian show "Animal Miracles" on Animal Planet last night, and there were two stories of cats saving people's lives. One was a cat who awakened her human when the house was on fire. The woman was very deeply asleep and didn't wake up from the cat's cries, so she scratched her human on the face. That did the trick. This kind of thing isn't an isolated incident, but I think it's important to note that this cat wasn't trapped in the house - there was an open window in the bedroom where the woman was sleeping. The cat could have run out to safety, but she stayed to wake her human, who had once rescued her and saved her life. The other was about a family driving cross-country. The mother was driving and her two sons slept in the back with their cat curled up with them. (This cat was very amenable to travel.) But the mother started to fall asleep, and strayed into the wrong lane, where she almost had a head-on with an 18-wheeler. But the cat jumped into her lap and woke her up, just in time. I often wonder how much truth there is to the stories on these shows. The original people are interviewed, so clearly, *something* happened that seemed miraculous. But I wonder how much is exaggerated or left out. After reading the story of the kitty in Berlin, I'm more inclined to think that this stuff really does happen. There was also a very sweet story (on the show) about a Border Collie saving his best friend, another dog who had fallen in a well. He ran and got a human to follow him to the site, the guy called for more help, and they rescued the dog. (Although this story *really* begs you to say, "Did Timmy fall in the well?" ) Joyce |
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