Fred Everitt is all smiles after his cat, "Bandit", alerted him in the middle of the night that two men were trying to break into the back door of his home. Photo / AP
A Mississippi man said his pet cat helped prevent a robbery at his home, and he credits the calico with possibly saving his life.
Bandit, a 9.1-kilogram cat, lives with her retired owner Fred Everitt in the Tupelo suburb of Belden. When at least two people tried to break into
their shared home last week, the cat did everything she could to alert Everitt of the danger, he told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
"You hear of guard dogs," said Everitt, 68. "This is a guard cat."
The attempted robbery occurred sometime between 2:30am and 3am on July 25, Everitt said. He was first awoken by Bandit's meows in the kitchen. Then she raced into the bedroom, jumped onto the bed and began pulling the comforter off him and clawing at his arms. Everitt knew something was wrong.
"She had never done that before," Everitt said. "I went, 'What in the world is wrong with you?'"
