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Mother and proud cat-owner Diana Lorena Alvarez, 27, was astonished when she checked her home security camera to find out how her one-year-old son Samuel Leon had escaped his crib and why exactly he was cat-napping on the floor.
The footage shows the curious kid crawling past his empty crib toward the staircase on October 31. The hair-raising moment he heads for the door would be enough to make most parents shiver, but thankfully the family pet was on hand (or paw?) to save the day.
Enter the grey Siamese cat, Gatubela, who pounces on the toddler's back and pins him to the ground momentarily, buying just enough time to avert disaster. Gatubela then leaps in front of the inquisitive toddler, blocking the doorway to the stairs, batting him back with outstretched paws.
The child resists momentarily, but soon realizes he's fighting a losing battle with this cantankerous cat.
"I wanted to go back over the recordings so that I could see how he got out of his crib. It was at that moment that I discovered that the cat had saved his life. If it had not been for the cat my son would have rolled down the stairs," Alvarez said.
"Watching the footage, I felt really surprised and lucky."
Reader Comments
A patience testing feat indeed. I can see a bunch of straight up tails going every which way...
R.C.
I've know I always escaped from anything anyone tried to confine me in - a veritable Houdini of the cradle, I was.....
R.C.
At the ‘4.12’ mark, there’s an example of a cat trying desperately to get her lady out of the bathtub, even trying to drag her out by the wrist, almost as if she was trying to get a kitten out of harm’s way.
It seems to me the variation of what passes for consciousness for a cats, almost rivals that of humans and protective instincts vary, some cats have great caring natures, others not so much.
It could be some angelic entity, but if we are a resource that is exploited the more demonic end of the spectrum could easily use an animal to save a resource that could provide much potential food over a lifetime, be it a sensitive type or the polar opposite.
‘Favours in hell’ ?
Although the cat could just be playing as cats can do from time to time, perhaps one would have to see what’s in the cats eyes to know for sure.
If it was my vet, I would have insisted on Valiium before this - about 1.5 mg. or more. (Don't have a conversion table available.)
So, I'm about to watch the rest of the show at [Link]
Wish me, the staff, and, most of all, MAX, good luck!
RC
R.C.
Still remains true across the board: good help is hard to find.
R.C.
Cats have never forgotten . . .
Thousands of cat owners have claimed that whenever they make an appointment with the Vet, their cat disappears. (when you see how poor MAX was treated, you realize why!)
Sheldrake checked with phoning London Vets and found that they no longer made appointments with cat owners because the cancel rate due to their cat having disappeared was just too high!
The cat in the video must have had some precognition of danger to the child.
I've now had three cats and 99.9% of their rides ended up somewhere they've been before. (My 11.5 year old indoor cat has been to the vet twice; last time over ten years ago. Why? 1) Mandatory Vaccines & 2) Not been sick.
R.C.