CAT AS SNAKE-KILLER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 17

CAT AS SNAKE-KILLER.

SAVES TvvO GIRLS. (From Oob Own Correspondent-) . • SYDNEY, January 21. A white cat. the pet of the Perrett family who live at Oakleigh, not. far from Melbourne, will have • a luxurious Lome as long as it lives. Recent!- it saved Myrtle and Laura Perrett, 18-year-old twin sisters, being bitten by a venomous snake. The girls were standing on the varandah of their home as darkness was gathering, and they saw the cat' stalking something. A couple of times the cat sprang in the air and spun around. Curious to see what was attracting the cat’s attention, the girls walked across to a water standpipe. Suddenly a black snake, nearly 4ft in length, , slid out and coiled itself round Myrtle s ankle. Laura made a start to grasp the snake, and pull it away, but before either of the girls could do anying, the oat sprang at the snake, at it furiously, and with its hair on end from_ the tip of its tail to the top of its head. The snake then uncoiled itself and glided away. But the cat was not satisfied. It cut off the reptile’s escape, and held it at bay until Laura found a stick and killed the snake. The next morning the dead snake hung limply across the clothes line, mute witness to the bravery of puss.