‘Well, turns out I was very wrong. My sweet boys were waking me up because I would stop breathing.’: A cat owner's frustration over being woken up in the night turns to gratitude after a feline intervention uncovers a life-threatening health condition

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Sep 1, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

You never quite know what a cat is going to do to surprise you next. They seem to have infinite specialties of knowledge, and stupidity, but there is simply no way of telling what they will uncover to you next, nor when they will do so.

And this feline feature is very much present in today's story which tells the tale of a woman who is constantly awoken by her cat children, but not for any kind of legitimate reasons such as to eat, or at least it seems that way to begin with. What turns out to be true is that this lady's cat children were actually meowdical experts who had attended meowdical school for five years and had lots of practical experience to boot, and that their incessant midnight wake-up calls were not random but for a very important reason which they helped her realize. Sure, it took a long time to get to the conclusion, but feline doctors do not have thumbs to write with, and their English is not the best.
 

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    Hello, Just wanting to share a wholesome story.
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    As we all know, our cats love to wake us up at night for multiple reasons. It could be to play, cuddle, get attention etc - and don't get me wrong, mine do wake me up to demand breakfast
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    but otherwise it appeared as though it was for absolutely no reason. I was starting to accept that they would wake me up multiple times a night, sometimes every hour or two for seemingly no reason at all.
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  • Wow, that is some pretty tolerant pawrenting there. We do not know if we would be able to handle multiple wake ups each and every night with no reason. That would border on grounds for getting an automated water pistol to spray the culprits every time they set foot in the room.

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    They would go to the effort and then once they saw I was awake, they would run off and do their own thing (unless it was breakfast time). I'd
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    wake up to one of them on my legs intensely staring into my soul while the other would be on my side table, doing what he could to make noise like knocking things off my shelves or repeatedly tapping my blind etc.
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    When I would sit up, the one that would be on my side table would quickly run and lay behind me so I couldn't lay down unless I moved him.
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    They would even do it when I would have naps during the day and I honestly thought they just hated the fact that I slept, in general
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    Well, turns out I was very wrong. My sweet boys were waking me up because I would stop breathing. It turns out that I have sleep apnea and I don't know how long it would have taken
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  • Holy guacamole, that is insane! Ok, we completely take back what we said previously, these cats are indeed little angels sent down from heaven. Like in what world does a cat A) Care enough about their pawrent and B) Actually understand and pays attention to when we are, and we are not breathing. This is almost too much wholesomeness to handle in one go.

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    for me to realise and get it checked out if it weren't for them. I didn't think I could love them more than I already do, but somehow I can.
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    It kind of blew my mind and ever since I made some changes with how I sleep, they have only been waking me up for breakfast so something must be working. It could
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    just be my perception but considering they let me sleep now, I feel it's accurate. Bless their little souls, honestly. I feel terrible for just assuming they were
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    a เงื่ s-ugh so much love for them. Little service kitties.
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