Originally posted by Cinder & Smoke
I wish someone would invent a mini-smoke alarm that Fido and Kitty could wear on their collar - with a unique sound, different from a regular smoke alarm and our Own FireFighter-down alarms that WE wear... Then we'd KNOW there was a pet in distress and could use the sound to *find* him or her!
Maybe some day...
WHY didn't anyone think of that before! It is the best idea ever for saving a pet you don't know are there or not!! Phred, you MUST tell everybody in the "business" - I'm sure it can be done!

The picture I posted of the cat in the rucksack is NOT Fister, I borrowed the very appropiate photo from another thread - uhh, I don't remember who it is. However, I doubt that we'd get Fister inside one of those. We'd have to have our garden gloves ready, that's for sure!! And then again, there might just be time to chase him out with hoover.

Some peple say that cats can fall/jump out of windows from quite high up without hurting themselves, but I have my doubts about 2nd or third floor! In that case, I'd say the rucksack solution is the best!! And thowing a few mattresses out first they could land on, would probably also help.

Some flat's are designed rather unthoughtful - we have a kitchen with a starcase going down to the yard, next to the kitchen is the corridor, leading to the front staircase. But if the fire starts in the kitchen, it will rapidly block both doors.

I guess, we'll have to learn climbing down latters - however silly it may look. And will a radiator be strong enough to attach the latter to.

Well, we don't expect it to happen and I'm a light sleeper, so I'd most likely be the first "smokealarm" to react.

Btw, how is the statstics for pets waking up their humans in case of fire??