A Cocker Spaniel Saves Daniel’s Life
April 21st 2008 21:00
Standing around the printer one morning, I was showing my workmate Daniel pictures of cats when we started talking about dogs. He told me he had a cocker spaniel when he was a kid. “That dog saved my life,” he said. Interested, I asked, “How?” Daniel said, “I was walking and there was a snake in the grass. I couldn’t see it but the cocker spaniel saw it. The dog wouldn’t move but pointed his paw at something. I couldn’t see anything so I pulled on the leash but he still wouldn’t move. It pointed again. Then the snake came out and the dog wouldn’t move until it had passed us. I would have stepped on it if it wasn’t for the dog.”
This reminds me of a short story called Mahgy by Mary Beninghoff which I read in a book called More Stories of Cats and the Lives They Touch. A woman was having problems with her diabetes medication. On two occasions she woke up to find her blood sugar level was dangerously low after her cat batted her furiously in her face and chest with her paws. The idea of being punched in the face by a cat is pretty funny but I shouldn’t laugh as in this case, the cat also saved her owner’s life. The woman’s doctor said if it wasn’t for the cat waking her up, she could have fallen into a coma. The doctor concluded the cat must have sensed her breathing was different and acted accordingly. The story ends with the woman adjusting her medication and having no problems with it since.
Ah, the wonder of animals…As Daniel put it, “Animals just know.”
This reminds me of a short story called Mahgy by Mary Beninghoff which I read in a book called More Stories of Cats and the Lives They Touch. A woman was having problems with her diabetes medication. On two occasions she woke up to find her blood sugar level was dangerously low after her cat batted her furiously in her face and chest with her paws. The idea of being punched in the face by a cat is pretty funny but I shouldn’t laugh as in this case, the cat also saved her owner’s life. The woman’s doctor said if it wasn’t for the cat waking her up, she could have fallen into a coma. The doctor concluded the cat must have sensed her breathing was different and acted accordingly. The story ends with the woman adjusting her medication and having no problems with it since.
Ah, the wonder of animals…As Daniel put it, “Animals just know.”
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