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Originally Posted by kaplods
Our little tortie was dog-like. She followed me everywhere, and she was so empathetic that she tried to console anyone who wasn't feeling well.
When the upstairs neighbor's baby would cry, or fall down (she was a toddler) our kitty would stare at the spot on the ceiling and cry. At first we didn't know what she was crying at, because she obviously could hear wimpering that we could not. We finally "connected the dots" when the crying was loud enough for us to hear. Sometimes we'd hear the thump, but not the crying (which confused us, because she would cry at some "bumps" and not others).
She'd get obviously upset that we weren't rushing to the baby's rescue (or so it seemed).
We had to teach her that it was ok to sleep in bed with us (her previous owners obviously had not allowed her on the bed), and she woke my husband up during a low-blood sugar episode. He didn't understand why she was being "so naughty" because she never woke us that way, and then he noticed his hands were shaking.
She died of sudden heart failure before we'd had her two years. When we got her, she was supposedly two years old, but she had looked like such a kitten we thought it was a mistake. Turned out the delayed growth was probably the heart condition. We had gotten her to put on enough weight to look like an adult cat by hand feeding her. Her favorite food was frozen strawberry fruit bars, and whenever she saw me with one, she would beg. It was so silly.
Your cat sounds like a right darling. Also, she certainly was a lifesaver in your husband's low sugar episode. They say some animals can tell either by imperceptible behavior, smell or other factors that something is wrong. Good girl. There are some animals that are used as service animals in cases of seizures-I once heard of a lady that had two rats that would alert her by doing certain things when she was about to go into a seizure. I've heard of ferrets doing the same. Animals are truly amazing, and your kitty sounded like a special girl.