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The 2020 study by Arizona State University researchers investigated the reactions 60 pet dogs when their owners were seemingly trapped inside a “locked” box. Stories about pets going the distance to help an owner in distress reinforce previous research that shows dogs will rescue their owners in a dire situation. My alarm was for another two hours so who knows if I would have woken up. The doctors said it was a good job I got to hospital in time,” she says. “I do think he saved my life and so does everybody else around me.” Pets really do want to rescue their owners It’s a small price to pay for a situation that could have led to the end of her life. A balloon was placed in her artery and will now have to take medication for the rest of her life. Who knows if I would have got up without him, it could’ve been worse for me.”ĭoctors discovered that one of Felstead’s arteries was blocked, which caused the heart attack. You don’t hear about it with cats. I’m just glad he woke me up. I told her he woke me up and she was even more shocked. He doesn’t wake you up for food. He’s normally all my mum, he loves her and doesn’t bother with me. Mum was quite shocked. He likes to be alone,” she continues. “He’s never woken me up in the night before, he never bothers you. He’s not a light cat either and he’s certainly not a cat that wants to be on your knee all the time. “He wouldn’t leave me. He’s not a lap cat. He doesn’t do that normally, he sleeps all day and all night, that’s his life. Now she believes Billy’s swift actions saved her life. “I was a bit shocked, I went to bed and I felt fine. I’d even been out with the dogs and I didn’t feel ill or have any pains whatsoever,” she recalls in an interview with SWNS. “Suddenly I woke up in the early hours covered in sweat and couldn’t move. Billy was on my chest and was meowing loudly in my ear hole. He was really meowing. Felstead, a receptionist at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, was rushed to the hospital by her mother in the early hours of August 8.ĭoctors told her she had suffered a heart attack in her sleep. in her Nottingham, England home. She realized she was unable to move her body and had a shooting pain down her right side, so called out to her mother for help. Sam Felstead, 42, was asleep when she was woken by her 7-year-old cat Billy at 4:30 a.m. The incredible behavior reinforces prior research that shows pets not only show interest in helping their owners, but will make attempts to help them on their own. saved his owner’s life by pounding his paws on her chest to wake her up after she suffered a heart attack in her sleep. NOTTINGHAM, England - A heroic cat in the U.K.