Posted: August 18, 2008 2 a.m. EDT
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| A Siamese cat, such as the one shown here, alerted her owners to a fire. |
A Berlin, Germany, woman is crediting her cat, Sina, with saving her life and that of her son after the Siamese woke the woman in the middle of the night last week. Sina ran over her owner’s face and knocked over a lamp, waking the woman and alerting her to a fire in the apartment, Reuters UK reports.
“I am only alive because of my cat,” said the woman, identified as Medina R. by Bild newspaper. “I am so grateful to her.”
The woman had left a candle burning before going to bed. Around 3 a.m., she felt her cat run over her face, then heard a loud crash. “Sina had knocked over a lamp,” she said.
The woman said her bedroom was already filled with thick smoke, and she could see flames in the living room. “I ran to my son’s room, shook him awake and called the fire brigade,” she said.
Sina and her owners were treated for smoke inhalation and are doing fine.