Oh yeah? My cats give me the heimlich whether I need it or not. You know… just in case. Usually in the middle of the night. I assume they hear my snoring and believe it is desperate choking. Good kitties.
I don’t know if it saved my life per se, but about 5 years ago, my cat Ruckus woke me up in the night when a garbage can started smouldering after a hot ashtray was dumped into it.
His loud “MRRRRROW” and urgent pacing around the room was enough to wake me and get me to investigate.
Ruckus gets a can of soft food to himself everyday now.
Of course cats can do the Heimlich. They could even do open-heart surgery, witrhout anesthesia, using just their bare claws (and their tongues to sterilise everything) – but they don’t need to actually do it to prove they are superior to dogs: they already know they are superior, and can’t be bothered with saving the lives of mere human beings,
I think you left out some words from your title. Let me help:
"More proof that dog *owners * are indeed *willing to attribute near human powers of intelligence to dogs, despite all evidence that they are not actually * superior to cats!