Did Cat Detect Carbon Monoxide Leak?
CEDAR RAPIDS- A Cedar Rapids woman is crediting her cat with possibly saving her life from exposure to carbon monoxide. For the last week, or longer, Jeanie Probst says her black and white cat named Oreo made a screeching racket every time the furnace in her apartment kicked on. The cat would also constantly look at the heating registers while making odd sounds. She says she couldn’t figure out the problem…until she finally called MidAmerican Energy to test for poisonous CO fumes. Probst tells TV9 that she and her boyfriend had headaches and slight flu-like symptoms during the same period of time. Those are some of the signs of mild CO poisoning. But she wasn’t sure something was really wrong. Still, the constant agitation of her cat that convinced her to call for a furnace check. Probst said when the technician came to her apartment to check for the odorless, colorless gas she told him how her cat was acting. “He didn’t believe me at first, he wanted me to run the furnace with the f
