A cat in England saved the life of a heart attack owner by waking him up with his paw on the chest.
Her 42-year-old Sam Felsted, of Stapleford, Nottingham, was asleep when she was awakened by Billy's pounding.
Felstead felt gunshot-like pain in his right side and found himself unable to move, but was able to call his mother for help.
After her mother learned that it would be two hours before her ambulance arrived, she rushed her to the hospital.
Doctors told Felsted that she had suffered a heart attack in her sleep, and she said her results would have been very different had it not been for her seven-year-old cat. I believe
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She says that when she went to bed she "made her feel better."
"I awoke suddenly in the early morning, drenched in sweat," Felsted recalls. "Billy was on my chest and meowing loudly in my ear canals." - Things cats never do.
He doesn't. He sleeps day and night, that's his life."
She said her mother was "quite shocked" by Billy's behavior.
"I told her he had woken me up, and she was even more shocked," she said. "I've never heard of that in cats."
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Felsted spent three days being observed until she and Billy were reunited, but the cat was oblivious.
"He didn't care when I first got home. He completely ignored me," Felsted laughed.
"Thanks to him because I didn't know if he woke up. The alarm didn't go off for two hours, so no one knows if he woke up." she thought.
"The doctor said it was a good job I got to the hospital in time," she added. "I think he saved my life."
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