04 January, 2006

Police Say Cat Called 911

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Police aren't sure how else to explain it. But when an officer walked into an apartment Thursday night to answer a 911 call, an orange-and-tan striped cat was lying by a telephone on the living room floor.

The cat's owner, Gary Rosheisen, was on the ground near his bed having fallen out of his wheelchair.

Rosheisen said his cat, Tommy, must have hit the right buttons to call 911.
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And you thought that all cats do is sleep.

Now that I know what they're capable of, I wonder if I can train the furry dependents to call out for Chinese food.

8 comments:

Anne said...

All my last cat ever did was vomit hair balls on everything.

Ivy the Goober said...

This is especially funny since I just read a joke about a blonde who couldn't call 911 since she her phone didn't have an eleven button. :)

Foo said...

Anne: the cat I had before Sweetie and I were married had liver disease and threw up an average of once a day. Boy howdy, was I glad when I found cat food that didn't have any artificial coloring to stain the carpets.

Susie: you sure did get a big black mark in Sweetie's book for that bomb comment. You're right about the Christmas tree, though. The first Christmas we were married, our 'youngest' was still a kitten and had her front claws. Every time I turned around, she had climbed about halfway up the tree and was wreaking havoc on the ornaments and garland.

In the new place, if we're going to be home and put up the big tree, it stays in Sweetie's study behind a pair of French doors. Just in case the furry ones don't have the willpower to keep their paws off the tree.

Ivy: I suppose that guy could still be stranded on his living room floor if he'd had a blonde cat.

Turtle said...

Susie: Foo also got a verbal slap for the Chinese food comment, since he was alluding to something else. So don't feel lonely. I'm a bit sensitive when it comes to animals -- particularly pets.

Foo said...

It was a subtle irony and not intended to condone the use of felines in food preparation.

Turtle said...

turtle = sweetie :)

Lou said...

Cats are intelligent creatures...

Foo said...

When I installed Firefox for the first time, the installation process popped up a dialogue asking me if I'd like to import my Internet Explorer bookmarks.

I said 'yes'. It was just that easy.

I'm afraid I'm not going to be much help to you, since I've never used a Mac. However, since there's always some smug Mac-o-phile telling me how he loves his Mac because it doesn't require him actually understand anything about how it works. From this, I can only assume that Firefox for the Mac would also allow you to import bookmarks from the Mac's standard browswer software.

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