Battle of the News Stories

For some time, UGA (also known as George-dog) has been reminding us of the event in Maine that produced this headline,

"Dog Saves Owner After Cat Starts Fire"

(I can't get the Bangor News article so I used the UPI version which has a different headline).

In that event, the owner was using a kerosene lantern and the cat knocked it over.

Recently there was a recent story from a Seattle newspaper with a different twist,

"

Bremerton cat saves elderly owner from smoky fire"

In this story a woman slept through her smoke/fire alarm but was awakened by the cat pawing at her face.

UGA says this story is not believable because it is impossible to sleep through a smoke alarm.

and then today, according to KansasCity.com, a dog chewed through a computer wire and almost started a fire, the headline was,

Just ask the cat: Don't let dogs out with computers

the rest of the article read,

A dog chewing a laptop computer cord started a $105,000 Olathe fire Wednesday that almost killed the family cat.

Firefighters rescued the soot-covered cat, Tater, from the burned duplex and got him back to his family.

A woman and her young son were home when the dog chewed through the cord and caused an electrical short that ignited the couch, firefighters said, and then they and the dog left the home.

Tater stayed inside until firefighters saved him. They said he seemed well-tempered for a cat covered with soot. No word on whether the dog showed any remorse.