Lazy senior cat goes feral whenever his hooman enters the basement, turns out he was alerting him to dangerous radon leak 6x higher than normal, saving their lives

Cats are much smarter than we give them credit for, and no, our cat didn't pay us to write that. They are pawsitively primed to their surroundings, even more so than we are. The story below is a purrfect example of that! One pawrent built a bar in his basement and started hanging out down there more, inviting friends and doing other hooman things down there. But, whenever he stayed down there, his normally lazy 13-year-old senior cat went absolutely feral. Bouncing off the walls, meowing, and digging at a certain spot despite his old age and arthritis. His hooman thought he was just being a menace, so he ignored him.

Well, when one purrticular friend was over and noticed his cat's purrfectly strange behavior, he suggested the hooman get a radon detector to check, just in case. He did, and it turns out that the spot where the cat was "digging' was releasing six times the healthy amount of radon into his home. He got it promptly taken care of, and now the senior cat can finally relax downstairs.

We joke a lot here at I Can Has Cheezburger about orange cats having one collective brain cell together, but in this case, we think the hooman was missing a few by not listening to his cat's purrfect pleas to fix something that was clearly wrong. Now go give that cat a nice slab of expensive tuna, he certainly earned it!

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Sometimes, cats do just randomly decide to cause chaos. This is understandable, and even expected, from cat owners. But, if he did this every time his hooman went downstairs, that should have been a very clear sign that something was wrong. What else could the cat have done to tell him to check it out? Learn to write and spell it out on the window?
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This isn't just ameowzing, it's kind of frightening. Something so dangerous was going on that he never would have noticed on his own. Thank goodness for his cute kitty who wouldn't take no for an answer!
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