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Cat named Pudding rescues owner hours
after his adoption
Feline rouses woman from diabetic seizure by jumping
on her chest, swatting her face
Door County Humane Society
Meet Pudding, the calm, relaxed cat who rescued his owner
from a diabetic seizure the day she adopted him.
By Laura T. Coffey
2/23/2012
Pudding the cat is big. He is orange. He is laid-back. And he’s
a lifesaver.
Just ask Amy Jung. The 36-year-old Wisconsin resident credits 21-pound Pudding with
saving her from the grip of diabetic seizure mere hours after she adopted him from a
local animal shelter.
“If something or someone hadn’t pulled me out of that, I wouldn’t be here,” Jung told
the Green Bay Press-Gazette newspaper.
Here’s what happened: On Feb. 8, Jung visited the Door County Humane Society with
her son, Ethan. She had no intention of adopting a pet; she and her son just wanted to
play with the cats, who are allowed to roam free at the no-kill shelter.
But, as can happen with felines and humans, Pudding and Jung felt a strong and
immediate connection.
“He just gravitated to her,” Door County Humane Society Executive Director Carrie
Counihan told TODAY.com.
Jung made an on-the-spot decision to bring Pudding home. Always a calm and relaxed
guy, Pudding took to his new digs right away, displaying not a hint of skittishness on
his first day there.
That evening Jung, who has been living with diabetes since the age of 4, went to bed at
about 9:30 p.m. About 90 minutes later, she started to have a diabetic seizure. That’s
when, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, “Pudding planted his weight on her
chest and, when he could not wake her, began swatting her face and biting her nose.”
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Jung came to her senses enough to yell out to her son for assistance. At that point,
Pudding jumped up onto Ethan’s bed and startled him into action. He immediately rushed
to get his mom the help she needed.
“Her doctor said she could have gone into a coma and not come out of it if much more
time had gone by,” Counihan said. “The fact that Pudding did what he did without
knowing her that well is just amazing to me.”
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Since the scary Feb. 8 incident, Jung has followed her doctor’s advice to have Pudding
registered as a therapy animal.
“I think he’s already made his first trip to Walmart,” Counihan said.
Pudding had been living at the shelter for about a month before Jung took him home. He
arrived there in early January with another cat named Wimsy after their owner died. Jung
adopted Wimsy, too, because she didn’t want to separate them.
This wasn’t Pudding’s first stint at the Door County Humane Society. In 2008, a family
surrendered him to the shelter because their son was allergic to cats. His name at that time
was Starbuck. His last owner, the woman who just passed away, decided to change his
name to Pudding.
“Pudding is 8 1/2-ish now — not too old,” Counihan said. “And Wimsy is 3 years old.
Maybe he’ll pick up some of Pudding’s powers.”
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