Adopted cat alerts owner of house fire

Tigger has impeccable timing. The cat alerted its Clinton owner, Carole Behr, to smoke early Tuesday morning, allowing Behr and her daughter just enough time to call 911 and escape from the a fire that destroyed much of their home.

Behr said the cat jumped on her and then sat until she woke up, to find it staring out the door of her bedroom.

Firefighters used a ladder to rescue them from a second-story window, Behr said.

Behr and her 15-year-old daughter, Connie Chapman, were not injured. Tigger, who jumped from the window, was also unharmed.

The family adopted the cat last year from the Humane Society.

"I told my daughter, 'See, you saved the cat and now the cat saved you,'" Behr said.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

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Information from: Quad-City Times, http://www.qctimes.com