<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of Daily Mail (London, England) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/jwfbqpw">http://tinyurl.com/jwfbqpw</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><h1 style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; ">Two pet cats save the lives of a heavily pregnant mother and her unborn baby from carbon monoxide poisoning after raising the alarm by crying</h1><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; text-align: left; "><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font><br></font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font>Elaine Hilton, 39, thought her drowsiness was symptom of her pregnancy</font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font><br></font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font>Alerted to lethal gas when her cats Tinker and Bell howled and collapsed</font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font><br></font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font>Rushed to hospital after firefighters found high levels of gas inside house</font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font><br></font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font>Specialists on standby at birth but daughter Amber-Louise given all-clear</font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font><br></font></span></li><li style="text-align: -webkit-auto;padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font>The leak was caused when soot began blocking an air vent in her boiler</font></span></li></ul><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The lives of an expectant mum and her unborn baby were saved from carbon monoxide poisoning after her two cats raised the alarm.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elaine Hilton, 39, was 40 weeks pregnant when her old-fashioned boiler started leaking the lethal gas into her home in November last year.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She put her drowsiness was down to her pregnancy until her three-year-old cats, Tinker and Bell, started crying and then collapsed, alerting her to the danger.<br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'I owe everything to them,' she said. 'They literally saved my life. My cats have been spoilt rotten since it happened and I just love them to bits.'</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elaine, a receptionist, explained: 'It was a nice quiet Sunday afternoon and I was lying on the sofa watching some TV while my ex-partner was cooking in the kitchen.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'I'd put the heating on a few hours before because I was going to have a bath and soon after I started to feel funny and light-headed.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'I felt really dizzy, but I assumed it was caused by my pregnancy so I was planning to have a nap on the sofa.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'That's when my cats started crying. They were making really high-pitched whimpering sounds, almost like a baby, which was really unusual.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'At first I thought they might just be hungry but then I realised something was wrong.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: left; "><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'They went and hid behind the sofa, where they collapsed. It was as if they were too weak to hold up their own weight.</font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'One of the cats was fitting. Her eyes were rolling and her body was shaking.</font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>'We were going to phone the vet, but they never acted like this before so alarm bells started ringing.'</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>Elaine and her then-partner, Geoff Lilly, 53, phoned the fire brigade and carried the cats into the garden where they waited until firefighters arrived.</font></font></p><font><span style="text-align: left; "><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Firefighters took readings from inside the house in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, which showed high levels of carbon monoxide in the air, caused by soot blocking an air vent.</font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elaine was rushed to Doncaster Royal Infirmary with carbon monoxide poisoning and worryingly, no one knew if her unborn baby, Amber-Louise, now four months, had been affected.</font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elaine was pregnant with her first child after being told seven years ago that she could never get pregnant.<br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said: 'My baby was my main concern. I never thought I would ever have a child and I was terrified at the thought she might be in danger.</font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The hospital said they'd never dealt with a pregnant woman suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning so they had no idea if my baby would be OK.</font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The only thing they could do was monitor the baby's heartbeat. They kept me in for four days and gave me air to try and flush out the carbon monoxide from my system.</font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>'They couldn't do anything more and I was told they would only know if my baby had been affected once she was born.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>'I had to wait another two weeks until I gave birth. It was an incredibly stressful time. It was a waiting game and the whole time I was worrying about it.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>'I thought if it made me feel that dizzy and weak then it must have had an impact on the baby. I was terrified my baby would be brain damaged from the carbon monoxide poisoning.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>'Even thinking about it now makes me feel very emotional. It was incredibly traumatic.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>'When my daughter was born they had a paediatrician on standby just in case but she was fine. She was healthy and she's been fine ever since.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>'It's a miracle that my baby is perfectly healthy. It could have been a lot worse. Both of us are so lucky to be here.'</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>Elaine is now helping the Doncaster Carbon Monoxide (CO) Partnership to raise awareness of the 'silent killer', which has no colour, taste or smell.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>She said: 'Get a carbon monoxide detector for £15. That's all it costs and it's worth spending that money. It could save your life one day.'</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>Carbon monoxide is produced when fuels such as gas, oil, charcoal, coal and wood do not burn completely.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>The most common cause of this is when an appliance such as a boiler or cooker is installed incorrectly or poorly maintained.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>Carbon monoxide can also build up when flues, chimneys or vents are blocked.</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font>--------------------</font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "></p><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><font><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pet rescue: Elaine's three-year-old cats Tinker and Bell (above) inadvertently raised the alarm after they began crying and then collapsed from exposure to the lethal gas</span></font></div><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><img src="cid:B72C48AC-D26D-4D99-9B5D-7F86B9A47FF5" alt="article-2336240-1A283337000005DC-527_634x445.jpg" id="B72C48AC-D26D-4D99-9B5D-7F86B9A47FF5" width="634" height="445"></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; "><font><font><br></font></font></p><p></p></div></span></font><p></p></div></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>