Hero Cat Who Alerted Owner That The Slow Cooker Was Burning

In the middle of the night, cat owner Scott White was awoken in the early hours of Sunday to his cat purring and pacing about the room. Then the rescue cat, named Joey, even stood on his chest to get his undivided attention. 

Luckily, Mr White was able to recognize something was wrong with the way Joey was acting and went into the kitchen to find the entire room filled with smoke! The smoke coming from a slow cooker he had set hours ago. 

Mr White told CBC, "We went to bed around midnight and it was fine," White said of the Crock-Pot. "And then it wasn't fine when Joey found it."

Story via CBC


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    Meet Joey! Joey was adopted from a rescue group in Toronto about 2.5 years ago. Originally came from a shelter in Quebec where cats are euthanized. Turns out, Joey isn't the only animal in the White household.

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    White also has a 10-month-old guard dog who slept through the entire indicent. "I guess we found out the real hero is the cat," White said. Rightfully so, Joey got some extra love the following day.

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    Text - keje 19 hours ago I had a hero cat too. I left a frying pan on the stove and thought I had turned it off but had only turned it down. My cat sat at the entrance of the kitchen looking at me and then looking at the burning pan. This went on for a few minutes before I realized something was wrong. I could have burned down the whole apartment building. Thankfully I was able to put it out. My smoke detector never went off. Ever since then I move any pot or pan I'm cooking in to a burner that'
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    Text - Tweeze 20 hours ago We used to have a cat we'd nicknamed 'Grandma'. She was the biggest tattletale. If the kids were doing something she thought they shouldn't be doing, she'd come running and meow to get us to follow her. She was always right. Once, in the middle of the night, she insisted I get out of bed to look at a sack on the floor. It turns out there was a huge spider inside the sack and she wasn't going to settle down until I put it outside (no, I don't ill spiders). She's been go
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    Text - C 19 hours ago My two black cats many years ago saved my life. I had fallen asleep after a long day at work. I had been cooking some dinner when I went to lay down for a couple of minutes. Next thing I knew, it was 2 hours later and my cats were on top of me, screaming their little lungs out. The house was full of smoke. I awoke with a start and crawled on the floor to open some windows. I then crawled out to the kitchen and turned off the burner, crawled to open the kitchen outside door
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    Text - Lee 20 hours ago "The real hero is the cat," has been true for generations. From killing pests during the black death to lowering our blood pressure through purrs and cuddles, cats have saved countless humans. My neighbor's cat also work them up in the middle of the night to tell them the basement was on fire. Sadly, mine urgently tells me their is a huge emergency in the kitchen every morning around 6 am even though the biggest danger is the empty food bowl. A Reply Replies (2) A 27
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