Cat saves baby's life
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-04-17 09:46
A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne
house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a
police spokesman said Saturday.
"The cat is a hero," Cologne police spokesman Uwe Beier said. "Its loud
meowing got the attention of the homeowner and saved the baby from suffering
life-threatening hypothermia. The homeowner opened door to see why the cat was
making so much noise and discovered the newborn."
Beier said the boy was taken to hospital at 5 a.m. on Thursday, when
overnight temperatures fell toward zero, and had suffered only mild hypothermia.
He said there was no indication of what happened to the boy's mother.
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