Oscar the cat predicts patients' deaths
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_fe_st/death_cat
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live."He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," said Dr. David Dosa in an interview.
Heheh.
I suspect this is more than a cat's sixth sense of natural causes. I suspect foul play, and that the cat is actively killing these people! 😱:evil::kitty:
It's interesting, because it's clearly a testable phenomena. I mean, it's like weather and stuff. There must be somthing in the behavior or area around a patient.
I just hope they don't tear the kitty away from the people who need his comfort to preform experiments, etc.
The cat is stealing the souls of the dying, like that movie. Or that other one with the tiny troll that comes out at night and sucks the breath out of that one chick from poison ivy, whats her name...except it's the cat. Cats eye or something.
...wtf is her name...this is gonna drive me nuts.
You have no idea how happy I was to come into this thread and it not be about Furries.
I don't ever want to see that cat, I don't want to know when I'm dying.
I guess it's entirely possible. My dog will start to freak out like 6 hours before a storm comes. I think animals just have this sixth sense about these things.
Oscar recently received a wall plaque publicly commending his "compassionate hospice care."
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...Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
*runs from teh death kitty*
The article did not state how many rooms the cat entered where the people did not die, only the ones that did. I suppose it is possible that he was sometimes wrong.
Who knew the angel of death took feline form?
I thought that article was pretty cool, but I know why the cats knows, it's easily the sense of smell. Days before my dogs died, my cat got really wary of them because they just smelled different. Also before my cat died she didn't smell as she usually did. It's just natural chemical changes, but humans probably don't notice it in a hospital environment, whereas animals might.
Yeah, Lilith's right.
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Archibalbo wrote:My dog will start to freak out like 6 hours before a storm comes
is a pressure thing. With training you can (and I have) learn to sense it as well.
How do you train to learn pressure?