"This is shadow, he once started freaking out right before I went to bed and I knew something was wrong.
I eventually realized that the pilot light went out for the propane heater and that gas was probably leaking. He stopped as soon as I turned the heat off."
"This dummy found my dad after he fell in the basement. He went to go get my moms attention upstairs but the door was closed and him yelling is a constant thing so she ignored it. He came back to the basement and basically gave my dad a shrug before leaving to take a nap."
“This dummy found my dad after he fell in the basement. He went to go get my moms attention upstairs but the door was closed and him yelling is a constant thing so she ignored it. He came back to the basement and basically gave my dad a shrug before leaving to take a nap.”
"This is Tigris aka Babycat
She was a partially fail to thrive runt who made it to around 15-16 years old and passed in 2023. She was my beloved babycat who I had raised from a kitten, and a few years before she passed she was diagnosed with kidney disease. In the last year or so of her life, I started sharing updates about her to those who followed my writing and stories.
I miss her dearly, but it is what she did on her last day that really drove home how special she was.
The vet had said she had a month maybe two left to live. She wasn’t in pain, and had been receiving intravenous fluids for a year. She was doing better than she had been for a while. Tears of the kingdom had just come out and I had plans to start playing it the next day.
She loved to sit on my lap as I wrote stories, read books, or played games. It’s still hard to believe that she’s gone.
We had just returned to the apartment for the first time in almost a month. There had been major renovations due to a partial ceiling collapse caused by water damage, and old pipes.
During the entire time I was living in that apartment I never fully closed all the windows because of a warning i had been given by the fire marshal about potential gas, leaks in old apartments. However, while my baby cat and I had been out of the apartment and the landlords had been doing renovations and repainting the ceiling, They had closed every single window.
The same landlords had been aware that I had been making complaints over the past year that there was something wrong with the stove. It was an old gas stove, and it was due to this gas stove that the fire marshal had told me no matter what to never fully close the windows.
We hadn’t even been back in the apartment for two full days, when on the early Saturday morning of May 13, 2023 I was awoken by my baby cat yelling and crying and raising h**l.
The previous night she had eaten some soft food, got some water and laid down in her little box after curling up next to me and purring for a few hours. I was worried something was wrong with her, and I tried to wake up and open my eyes, and then I realized I felt dizzy. It was like a fog was pressing down on me, there was a weird smell to the air, I tried to breathe and I coughed. It was hard to breathe. I managed to force myself to get up and open the window, but I knew that wasn’t enough. I grabbed my baby cat, bundled her in a blanket because it was still cold outside in Minnesota, grabbed my car keys and my phone and I ran out of the apartment.
I locked the door on the way out and ran out of the entire complex to my car, turning it on and trying to get warm. My chest hurt and I still felt dizzy, but my first thought was about my baby cat. I called the emergency vet. They said to keep an eye on her, and if she wasn’t better by 8 o’clock when they opened to bring her in.
Then I called some family members. Someone from my family showed up and checked the apartment. They brought a gas detection meter because of the symptoms I had described, and even with the window cracked open the readings in the apartment were lethal. The family member opened all the windows to air it out, and went around, trying to find the source of the leak.
It was the gas stove. One of the connecting pipes is where the leak had come from. It had simply corroded, and the seal was no longer any good allowing the gas to leak out. Because the landlords had completely closed all of the windows, the gas from the stove had accumulated in the apartment. The worst part was it wasn’t just the gas from the stove. It turns out they used paint that released another type of gas as it dried that have been accumulated in the apartment due to them closing all the windows and not allowing ventilation.
My babycat had saved both of our lives that morning."
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