Cat Saves His Human's Life After She Falls Asleep in Bathtub
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One drizzly gray morning around 5 a.m., my cousin and I had walked from her house to the parking lot next door to use the pay phone there. I saw this tiny cream-colored kitten with paws bigger than he was. As the rain came down and hit the puddle, he would pounce on the little splashes the raindrops made.
I immediately scooped him up and took him back to my cousin's, where my then-fiance (now husband) was sleeping peacefully. I crawled back into bed, and the kitten immediately jumped up and curled up with us. After my husband sleepily called him the names of my cousin's two cats, I told him it was our new kitten. He shot bolt upright and scooped the kitten up to cuddle him. We named him Azehrei, a word meaning "Dragon King" from Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince trilogy.
He was polydactyl - so much so that he had toes between his toes. He was incredibly smart and friendly. Once, he even saved my life. I had bronchitis and had fallen asleep in a hot bath. I woke up with my nose less than an inch above the water. Azzy was pawing my face and meowing frantically. He was my husband's teddy bear and often slept on his back in his arms.
Sadly, when he was 7, he had a kidney blockage. We rushed him to the vet, and they were able to clear it once. It blocked again, though, and when they sedated him to put in the catheter, he took the choice away from us and crossed the rainbow bridge. We did everything we could to save him and it is suspected that he might have been inbred (since the family that may have had his parents would not fix any of their animals), which could have been a contributing factor.
This is one of the last pictures I took of him, and one of my favorites, as he is smiling. I know we gave him enough love to fill a thousand lifetimes.
Story submitted by Danyal from Dover, Ohio.
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