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Cat Credited With Saving Oregon Family From Dangerous Gas Leak
By Ben Hooper
Feb. 17 (UPI) -
- An Oregon fami- ly's rescue cat is being praised as a hero by her family after alert- ing the humans in the house to a gas leak that could have become danger- ous.
Sandi Martin said she was playing at her Lake Oswego home with Lilly, the cat she recently adopted from Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood, when the feline started sniffing at a fire- place valve in a way that struck Martin as unusu- al.
"I went over and sniffed and there was a natural gas smell," Martin told KGW-TV. "It was very faint so I did- n't really trust my nose. Then I asked my hus- band to sniff it, and he sniffed it, too."
The couple con- tacted NW Natural, their gas company, and they were told to shut off every- thing in the room, including their phones, and open all available win- dows and doors.
An employee from the company arrived about 20 minutes later and confirmed there was gas leaking
from the fireplace.
"He came in and tested it and, in fact, he said it was a dangerous gas leak," Martin said. "So, then he tested all the other sources of gas and went out- side and cut off the pipe to the gas there and capped it off and shut down the fireplace. She might have saved our lives."
Martin said
Lilly has extra toes on her feet, a trait that is con- sidered lucky in cats. She said the gas experience confirmed the feline's good for- tune.
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