Cats aren’t particularly known for reciprocating their owner’s love and affection, which is why one Wisconsin couple was stunned after they realized that their cat had actually saved their lives.
“We have three cats, and all three of them do run the house,” said Kevin Shanahan. “We’re just here to feed them and take care of them.” Yet when Kevin and his wife Annette nearly died one night from a carbon monoxide leak, their cat Gracie came to take care of them.
“All of the sudden Gracie, I heard she was pounding, knocking, knocking, knocking at the door. And so I got out of bed and to stop her from pounding at the door, and I looked to my left and Annette was there in the chair,” Kevin said. “I was hanging onto the arm of the chair, and I thought I was dying,” Annette said. “And she called 911, and all she could say was ‘can’t breathe.’”
Firefighters arrived soon after and discovered the hot water heater had malfunctioned and caused a lethal level of carbon monoxide in the home. The couple was rushed to the hospital and were kept overnight, but they know that if it Gracie hadn’t woken them up, they would have died that night.
“Very lucky. If it wasn’t for the cat, I don’t know how much she was saving our lives, but she wanted to get out of there, and she knew enough to know something was wrong, and she was pounding on the door… I say saved by grace, saved by the grace of God, because she doesn’t usually sleep with us,” Annette said.
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Cat Saves Family Who Nearly Died From Carbon Monoxide Leak is an article from: LifeDaily