Eyewitness NewsOHIO (WABC) -- An Ohio couple says their cat is a hero for saving their lives during a carbon monoxide leak. Rod and Michelle Ramsey turned on their furnace Sunday, and the next day they both got headaches and felt fatigued.
Michelle went to the doctor, who thought it was food poisoning. So she and her husband went home.
They tried to go to sleep, but their cat Tiger kept howling and pacing."Screaming at me, screaming bloody murder at me to let him go outside," Michelle said. "I wanted to get up and let him out...but I just couldn't physically do it. I just couldn't do it."
Michelle willed herself to get up, but she could tell her cats were sick. So she called the vet, who knew something was wrong.
"She kept telling me my speech was slurred, and I kept repeating myself," she said. "And I just didn't sound right...out of the blue, she says, 'Have you turned your furnace on yet?'"
The vet told the Ramseys to get out of their house immediately and call the fire department. Firefighters discovered the carbon monoxide leak from the furnace.
Medics flew them to the hospital for treatment.
"They didn't know how we were still conscious at that point, and how we were alive," Michelle said.
Now, the Ramseys have not one, but two carbon monoxide detectors, and you might say they have a third - Tiger.
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