Cat saves baby's life

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Last Update: Monday, April 17, 2006. 6:25pm (AEST)

Cat saves baby's life

A cat has saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in Germany in the middle of the night, by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman says.

"The cat is a hero," Cologne police spokesman Uwe Beier said.

"Its loud meowing got the attention of the home-owner and saved the baby from suffering life-threatening hypothermia.

"The home-owner opened the door to see why the cat was making so much noise and discovered the newborn."

Mr Beier says the boy was taken to hospital at 5:00am local time on Thursday, when overnight temperatures fell toward zero, and had suffered only mild hypothermia.

He says there is no indication of what happened to the boy's mother.

-Reuters