A week ago today, August 17, was Black Cat Day – a very
minor holiday to help dispel age-old myths, superstitions and fears surrounding
black cats. The Saturday before that, one particular black cat helped to save
his human’s life. Tamar Longmuir heard her 83-year-old neighbor was missing, so
she began searching her farm in Bodmin, Cornwall. She and other searchers
noticed the woman’s black cat, Piran, pacing back and forth near a gate, meowing loudly. They followed the cat and found the elderly woman had fallen 70 feet down a steep, heavily wooded embankment and was lying, helpless, in a
stream at the bottom. Rescue workers were able to safely carry her back up to a
waiting air ambulance. "Without the cat,” Tamar said, “it could have been
hours before anyone checked there." If you missed Black Cat Day this year,
International Black Cat Day is October 27.
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