18 Cats Watch Over Their Owner’s Body

Eighteen cats stood vigil for a week over the body of their master and attacked officers who came to remove his corpse, police in Cairo said. When Bahgat Mostafa Said, 63, a retired Egyptian civil servant, died of natural causes Aug. 19 in his apartment in a Cairo suburb, his cats rallied around him. A week later, police came to investigate a smell coming from the apartment. When they approached the body, the cats set upon them, scratching ferociously, police said. It took the officers two hours to remove the cats in order to retrieve Said’s body.