A grief-stricken mother and daughter are remembering their heroic cat named Ricky Gervais, who saved his owner’s life one final time in the last painful hours he had left before he died.
Mary Nesbitt-Larking and her mum Carrie, who live together in Hertford, were amazed when Ricky started waking Carrie up when she stopped breathing due to sleep apnoea and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – meowing to alert them to the danger.
However, just before Christmas, Ricky started dribbling uncontrollably and the pair were thrown into despair as vets revealed he had epilepsy and a brain tumour, leaving the cat disoriented and aggressive towards his family.
