Cat’s Meows Lead Searcher to 83-Year-old Owner Who Fell Into Ravine

Black cats may have a reputation for being unlucky, but don’t tell the owner of an ebony feline who helped save his life.

Piran the kitten lives with his mother cat in rural Cornwall, England. When the 83-year-old Bodmin woman disappeared, neighbors launched a search party, scouring the nearby field, but was nowhere to be found, until searchers spotted an agitated Piran, meowing loudly outside a field gate. corn.

“The cat is very attached to her, and he was coming and going at the front door and meowing, so I decided to go find the cornfield,” said researcher Tamar Longmuir. Sky News.

With the harvest two meters high, the road was difficult. Keeping to the perimeter, Longmuir skirted the field, calling out his neighbor’s name. He had reached the end of the field when he finally heard a faint reply.

To Longmuir’s dismay, he realized that the old woman had fallen down a 70-foot steep ravine and, after passing through barbed wire, had finally come to rest in a stream.

Although Longmuir was able to go downstairs to assess the situation, and fortunately learned that her neighbor had suffered no major injuries, the octogenarian is believed to have been trapped there for several hours.

This afternoon, Bodmin’s officers were tasked with conducting a search for a missing 83-year-old woman.
The female was located by a member of the public who had seen the female’s cat meowing in the corner of a large cornfield near her home address. 1/3#a family pic.twitter.com/VYrwaAAAz8

– Bodmin Police (@BodminPolice) August 14, 2021

Longmuir had to climb the ravine again to get cell phone service, but was able to contact emergency crews who soon arrived to get the stranded old man out of the ravine.

After a two-hour concerted effort by nearly 25 emergency personnel from the police, fire department, and air and water rescue services, the woman was airlifted to a nearby hospital for treatment.

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“While the lady in question is still receiving care, she is in a good mood and is taking good care of her,” Bodmin police said in a facebook post. “Piran the cat saved the day!”

In fact, if Piran had not raised the alarm, the result could have been very different.

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“Without the cat waiting at the gate to that field, it could have been hours later that I or anyone else would have checked in there,” Longmuir told Sky News.

Grateful for Piran’s persistent vocal intervention in aid of their human, neighbors are collaborating to care for their kitten while it recovers.

In the United States, August 17 marks National Black Cat Appreciation Day, but considering Piran’s recent heroic deeds, we believe that an international show of appreciation for a tale that begins and ends with the cat’s meow would be almost “purrfecto “.

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