Monday, January 02, 2006
1-800-CAT-WORKOK, fair is fair. Occasionally a cat will do something amazing -- truly amazing, and not amazing because we expect so little of that sub-species. When owner Gary Rosheisen of Columbus, Ohio, fell out of his wheelchair on Thursday night and couldn't get back up because of osteoporosis, his cat apparently dialed 911 and brought police to the home.
When the emergency call came through but there was no one on the line, police went over to his apartment to check things out and found Rosheisen on the floor near his bed, and his cat Tommy lying by the phone in the living room. Rosheisen said that he got the cat three years ago and has tried to train him to call 911, but he wasn't sure if the training took. It appears that the cat did remember, and decided to jump to the rescue at the moment of crisis.
I have to admit that this is a pretty cool story. Although if it had been a dog, we probably would have given the man CPR (the dog breath alone would wake him up), or if we had to call 911, we would have stayed on the phone and explained the exact situation to the police. But that's because dogs are obviously superior to cats.
Now it does seem that cats can do a lot more when they want to -- maybe these freeloaders have been pretending to be totally dumb, feeble and helpless (not a major stretch for them), just to get out of doing things and earning their keep. From now on, we should train them to be guard cats, seeing eye cats, sled cats, police cats, bomb-sniffing cats (haha I like that), etc. so we dogs can get some rest and have more time for blogging.
- posted by Woofwoof @ 7:15 AM
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I want to see a cat-pulled entry in the Iditarod. Of course, knowing what I know about cats, I think they would just sit there, unless you had a team of matched white cats and put a pair of dark slacks out in front of them . . .
The only use for a cat in the Iditarod is if they dangle it in front of the dogs to make them run faster. That reminds me of a Mountain Dew commercial, where the winning team is run by a dog and pulled by humans. The dog is dangling a pack of Mountain Dew cans in front of the humans.
Somehow I doubt this story is true. I've never seen a cat do much of anything, and here it's dialing the phone?
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