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Canadian Press
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EDMONTON - If not for his cat Mel-O, 9-year-old Alex Rose figures he'd be laid up in a hospital bed trying to recover from a diabetic seizure - or worse.
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/ R7 y; Z! ]' ?7 Y8 |* bHis year-old feline - who usually stays away from people - crawled up four steps onto Alex's loft bed and walked across his belly, clawed and batted him to wake the boy, who has Type 1 diabetes, just as his blood sugar dropped to dangerously low levels. ( x3 ?6 Z: `0 C; V
2 X+ W( c5 s4 g$ h"It was amazing," said Alex, as he scooped ice cream into his mouth to celebrate his ninth birthday Tuesday at the Edmonton Humane Society, where Mel-O received a certificate and special tag for her part in keeping him alive. advertisement " g) R* k$ r9 c6 n% {: Q% Q
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" V, j0 R1 e$ [Alex's parents, Danielle and Sean Rose, say they're grateful for Mel-O's heroics.
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. Q8 O: e6 \3 [7 M"Did she save his life? In my mind, yes," said Danielle, referring to the March 28 incident at the family home in Morinville, north of Edmonton.
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"He had five minutes before he would have seized. He would have seized and slipped into a coma and died."
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2 z' G& {) z1 X; _After Alex woke up, Danielle quickly gave him orange juice and cookies to boost his flagging blood sugar levels, she said. 8 L5 P) p( b$ @0 o! Z P
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Then the family rewarded Mel-O with a plate of tuna.
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Danielle很快给他橙汁和饼干
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