Kodama, the Grandma Cat Who Protected Me

No. 481 The story introduced this time

Here, I compile stories that have become tear-jerkers on bulletin boards like 2channel (now 5channel) and other sites, along with YouTube videos that have been uploaded, as "stories so good they bring tears to your eyes."

The story I am introducing this time is a post by a woman who wrote about her pet cat that saved her when a rattlesnake suddenly appeared in her room.

Regarding the date of the post, I confirmed a post from August 6, 2008, from what is published on a
summary site, but I apologize if that is incorrect.

There was a YouTube video based on this story, so I will introduce that as well.

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About five years ago in the summer, I was taking a nap at home. I had the window open on the second floor because the breeze felt nice, but I suddenly woke up to a strange sound. I wondered what it was, looked over, and nearly fainted. There was a rattlesnake. The kind you see on TV. It was close enough that if I reached out, I could have touched it. The strange sound was the rattling of its tail. Why? We're in Japan, aren't we? Is this a dream? I tried to get up, but I couldn't move for fear that if I moved clumsily, it would pounce on me. As I was trembling there, the sliding door opened. Thank goodness! Someone's home... I thought, but it was my pet cat, Kodama (13 years old at the time). Kodama was already a grandma cat and was frail, so I thought she would definitely get bitten, and I screamed, trying to get her to run away. ...But Kodama was faster. She quickly moved behind the snake and hissed. As soon as the snake turned toward Kodama, she swiped at it with a cat punch and immediately backed away.

I was stunned for a moment by her incredible movement, but Kodama was a grandma cat. That couldn't last, so I jumped up and looked for something to use as a weapon. I grabbed a barley tea pot, and when I turned around, Kodama was actually pinning the snake down with her front paws and biting its head. The snake and Kodama rolled around together. The snake, in pain, thrashed about violently, and Kodama was sent flying. I jumped into the fray, stepped on the tail of the weakened snake, and beat it until the barley tea pot broke, finishing it off. After that, I called the police and found out that the snake was a real rattlesnake. They said it was likely that someone who was a snake enthusiast had been keeping it secretly and it had escaped (the owner was never caught). It had venom, and it would have been really dangerous if I had been bitten. If it weren't for Kodama, I might have died. After this, there was a bit of a stir in the local area for a while. Kodama was treated like a hero for a while (even though she's a female), and neighbors came to see her. However, perhaps because she bit the snake, her upper and lower canine teeth on the right side were broken, and she spent a while eating nothing but tuna sashimi and Kalkan. Kodama was healthy after that, but she passed away peacefully from old age the winter before last. Since she was a cat strong enough to go one-on-one with a rattlesnake, I'm sure she's having a good time in the afterlife now.

YouTube

There was a video made based on this story, so I will introduce a portion of it. *It seems there are other videos besides the one I am introducing.

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In closing

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and Minchirie. Thank you for taking your time to read until the end.