Cat Heroes

In 2002, Lansing, Mich., a 7-year-old girl's cat saved her from an attempted sexual assault.
A man brought the girl inside his home, put duct tape over her mouth and tried to remove her pants. The girl's cat attacked him and she was able to escape. The man was arrested after police went to the home with a search warrant, and found him hiding in a crawl space in a basement.

In April 2008, a street cat named Tammy saved 25-year-old Sagit Feld from a poisonous snake. Sagit, who is pregnant, was feeding Tammy and another stray cat when she noticed the snake. Sagit said the snake was clearly about to bite her when Tammy jumped on it and the two animals began fighting.
Sagit received a cat scratch during the fight and was taken to a local hospital due to the dangers posed to pregnant women by bacteria commonly carried by cats. Tammy was being pampered by grateful members of the Feld family.

January 3, 2006, Columbus, Ohio. When a police officer responded to a 911 call, he found Gary Rosheisen on the floor near his bed, having fallen out of his wheelchair, and his cat Tommy sitting by the phone.
Police said they received a 911 call from Rosheisen's apartment, but there was no one on the phone so they decided to check things out.
Rosheisen said he couldn't get up because of his painful osteoporosis and ministrokes that affect his balance. He also couldn't reach a cord above his pillow that alerts paramedics that he needs help. He said Tommy must have hit the right buttons to call 911.
Tommy has lived with him for three years. He tried to train him to call 911, unsure if the cat actually got it. The phone in the living room is always on the floor, and there are 12 small buttons, with a speed dial for 911 right above the button for the speaker phone.
"He's my hero," Rosheisen said.

March 20 2006. When Doreen Hunt collapsed in her bathroom during the night, her 15-year-old cat Gizmo began meowing loudly. The noise eventually woke Mrs Hunt's husband, Peter, 76, who found his wife slumped on the floor of their house in Stafford and called an ambulance.
Speaking from her hospital bed, Mrs Hunt, 73, who suffered paralysis down her left side, said: "He's a super cat and I'm so grateful."

June 22, 2007. Sylvester the cat is being credited with saving the life of his 90-year-old owner, Patricia Kerr, after she was found stuck in a cold bath at her home.
Sylvester, a ginger, part-Persian stray that Mrs Kerr adopted about five years ago, turned up at her neighbor's door and began miaowing. A visit by the normally antisocial cat was the first sign to Rotorua couple Shirley and Monte Mason that something was wrong with their neighbour.
Mrs Mason tried calling Mrs Kerr but the phone was engaged so she figured Mrs Kerr was okay, and she and her husband left to go to a funeral. When they returned, the retired couple saw Mrs Kerr had not left her rubbish bag out for Mr Mason to put on the street. The couple tried phoning again and again the phone was engaged. By now worried, they went next door and walked around the house, calling out to their neighbour of 20 years. When they got no response, they called the police.
Officers broke into the house and found Mrs Kerr stuck in the bath.
It was not known how long she had been there, but the water had gone cold, she was hypothermic and, according to Rotorua's Daily Post newspaper, was "pretty well gone".
The 90-year-old was taken to Rotorua Hospital, where she remained yesterday, recovering but reluctant to talk about her ordeal. However, the Masons told the Herald that if it had not been for Sylvester and the missing rubbish bag, Mrs Kerr might not have been found alive.