The Cat Comic » Heroic Cat http://www.thecatcomic.com Quirky Cat Cartoons every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cat Saves Life of Dog http://www.thecatcomic.com/2009/10/05/cat-saves-life-of-dog/ http://www.thecatcomic.com/2009/10/05/cat-saves-life-of-dog/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:59:13 +0000 James Spence http://www.thecatcomic.com/?p=570 WheMum's the wordn a new-born Chihuahua’s mother died giving birth, Halo Animal Rescue, based in Phoenix, urgently had to find a solution to save the puppy’s life.

Worker Heather Allen called Animal Control to find another dog that was nursing but, worryingly, there were no dogs nursing at that time.  All hope of saving the little black puppy seemed to be fading fast.

However, Allen applied some lateral thinking and came up with a remarkable and unconventional solution.  She asked if there were any other animals nursing and discovered that there was a black cat who had recently had a litter of four kittens roughly the same size as the puppy.

The puppy was carefully introduced to the mother and her feeding kittens and, amazingly, she accepted it.  The kitten’s mother seemed to have no objections about feeding an extra mouth, even if it happened to belong to a dog.

A week has since passed and the puppy, now named Leia, is thriving.  Could this be the first step in building a bridge between cats and dogs?

Read the full story (and watch the adorable video) on the USA Today website.

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As engineer Andrew Williams slept a fire broke out at his home in Bracknell, Berkshire. However, due to a recent redecoration, his smoke alarms had been moved, meaning that he had nothing to wake him up.

If it wasn’t for Hugo, who came in through the cat-flap and started pawing at the father-of-two’s face, Mr Williams may not have woken up.   Ever again.

“ The fire chief said that I had better buy the cat a big piece of fish because he saved my life,” said Andrew Williams, adding “I’m just so thankful to that little fella.”

It brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘Rescue Cat’.

Read the full story at the BBC News Website

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