A Reddit user has credited their two cats with helping to uncover a potentially life-threatening medical condition, after what initially seemed like nightly feline antics turned out to be potentially life-saving behavior.

A post shared to the platform by the pet owner under u/aria-du has been upvoted more than 30,000 times, with hundreds of viewers responding to the story and sharing their own experiences with perceptive pets.

The post details how the owner's two cats consistently disrupted their sleep, only for it to become clear that the cats were responding to symptoms of undiagnosed sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep.

The pet owner described being woken up "every hour or two" during the night, often by one cat sitting on their legs

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