When death comes calling, so does Oscar the cat
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — 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 the patient has less than four hours to live.
“He doesn’t make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die,” Dr. David Dosa said in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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1 comment in “I CAN HAS YOUR SOLE?”
August 6th, 2007 at 9:57 am
i actually saw a story of the cat featured on CNN a couple of weeks back. Freaky man..!
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