Sunday, September 20, 2015

Cat Saves His Owner"s Life


Sometimes cats can drive you crazy with the things that they do. However, they can also help us in ways that you would not believe. Cats have a lot of the same diseases that human have and maybe sometimes they can sense if we have a problem. That was the case in this article found on The Dodo.com. A cat owner’s was saved by her cat, when it noticed something wrong.


Sue McKenzie took in her beloved cat, Tom, when he was a stray kitten 20 years ago. The two share a close bond — so close, in fact, that Tom actually sensed when 64-year-old McKenzie was ill and alerted her.


“Tom doesn’t actively seek out human contact so I thought he was behaving very strangely when he suddenly started pawing me,” McKenzie told ITV News. “He would pat my the back of my neck while meowing very loudly.”


 


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Tom kept tapping the same spot on McKenzie’s neck — he was so persistent it was starting to drive her crazy.


McKenzie finally had the spot checked out and doctors found a lump — they diagnosed her with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Suddenly, McKenzie realized Tom hadn’t been trying to annoy her — he’d been trying to warn her.


Read more The Dodo.com


 



Cat Saves His Owner"s Life

The Cats and The Snail

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Some cats are so laid back, that even a snail can hang out with them. That’s the case in article written by Hilary Hanson News editor, The Huffington Post.


Sometimes you just gotta relax and take things slo-o-ow.


What better way to do that than with a blissed-out cat and a charming snail atop his paw?



Unfortunately, a second feline seems intent on ruining the idyllic scene, sticking its face up against the snail and aggressively sniffing it.


The Dodo suggests that viewers “pretend that these cats found a lonely snail and took him in to raise him as their own kittens,” but frankly it looks more to us like the cat is scoping out the snail as a potential snack.


That being said, the calmer of the two cats appears to have a history of hanging out with snails. The Japanese-language YouTube channel that posted the video last week also uploaded this one back in July:



Read more at The Huffington Post



The Cats and The Snail

Tuesday, September 15, 2015