Kitty alert!

OOOOooooo.
How can I not blog about this?

An alert tabby cat saved an Australian family of four from a house fire by clawing at its owner's face, emergency officials said Friday. Timmy the tabby sprang into action by waking his unidentified owner when a mattress caught fire as the family slept early Friday in Cairns in Australia's tropical north.

"The cat was probably the best smoke alarm system ... it was clawing at the occupant's face and got him up and out of bed," Cairns fire service spokesman Robert White-Macfarlane told reporters. The man was then able to wake his family and call for help.

White-Macfarlane said the fire was probably started by a cigarette but added that the home had suffered only minor damage because of the cat's intervention.

Put this together with an episode of Animal Planet's Most Extreme series - showcasing the top 10 deadliest cats based on prey range, # 1 was the domestic cat with over a 1000 varieties of prey - and you can see why this article immediately caught my eye.


Meow!